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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.
Russell explains whether there is a difference between WMI and CIM.
Install Windows Server 2019 System Insights using Windows Admin Center.
SUVP provides patches up to three weeks before their official release and encompasses all Microsoft products that are supported for security fixes.
Dual Scan enabled clients scan WSUS and WU, but only download Windows patches from Microsoft’s update servers (Windows Update).
Russell explains how to troubleshoot problems with the Delivery Optimization service in Windows 10.
Learn how to enable Windows Sandbox in Windows 10 to help protect against malicious applications.
December is usually a quiet month at Microsoft, but this year there have been several newsworthy events, including Microsoft’s plans to drop the EdgeHTML rendering engine and a new virtualization feature called Windows Sandbox.
In what Microsoft says will be the last cumulative update in 2018 before the holiday season, there are patches for 38 CVEs, including a zero-day.
Russell Smith looks at whether certifications are worth having and how they can help your IT career.
Learn how to control the properties users can select when provisioning resources in the Azure cloud.