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Russell Smith

Editorial Director

Editorial Director at Petri IT Knowledgebase. Russell has more than 20 years' experience working in IT. From small business to large government IT infrastructure projects.

Russell started his writing career for Windows IT Pro magazine in the early 2000s. Since then, Russell has contributed to a variety of publications, including Petri, CDW's list of publications, and various industry blogs including Netwrix, BeyondTrust, and others.

In addition to more than 1000 articles Russell has authored, he has also written a book on Windows security and co-authored another for Microsoft's MOAC series. Russell has also authored several courses for Pluralsight.

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Patch Tuesday – May 2019

This month’s quality update for Windows 10 is so good that it installs itself twice, Microsoft releases patches for Intel Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) attacks, and there’s a fix for a zero-day flaw in Windows Error Reporting.

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Microsoft Enterprise Search is Coming to Windows 10

Microsoft Enterprise Search is coming to all Office apps, Bing, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Windows 10.

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How to Synchronize Password Hashes Between AAD and Domain Services

In the second part of this two-part series, I show you how to synchronize password hashes between AAD and Domain Services, and how to join a Windows Server VM to the new domain.

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How to Change the Default Search Engine in Chromium-Based Edge

Microsoft has released a new version of their Edge browser, here is how to change the search engine from Bing to Google.

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Three Ways to Migrate to Windows 10

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at three different ways you can migrate from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – April 2019

This month sees yet more changes to Microsoft’s Windows 10 servicing schedule, problems for users after April’s Patch Tuesday quality update, the new version of Edge released for Insiders, and new minimum disk space requirements for upgrading to the Windows 10 May 2019 Update.

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How to Enable GPU Acceleration in Windows Containers

Need a little extra GPU power inside your container? Here is how you can turn on GPU acceleration in Windows Containers.

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How Microsoft Edge on Chromium Will Change the Windows 10 Lite and S Mode Proposition

If Microsoft is serious about S Mode and Windows Lite, it needs a browser that is broadly compatible and performant.

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Windows Admin Center 1904 Reaches GA with Support for Active Directory

Windows Admin Center 1904 is released with a host of new features and updates, including Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP tools in preview.

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How to Uninstall and Reset Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions

Here is how to uninstall and reset Linux distributions installed in Windows 10 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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