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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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Managing Linux, Windows, AWS, and Azure Using PowerShell Core Part 1: Installing PowerShell Core and Modules for Azure and AWS

In the first part of this two-part series, I’ll show you how to get started with PowerShell Core for managing heterogenous cloud environments.

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Patch Tuesday — May 2018

This month the Windows 10 April 2018 Update finally drops, although some Intel SSDs don’t seem to be happy about it, and a zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.

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Solving Problems Using Reliability Monitor in Windows 10

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at how you can use the Reliability Monitor in Windows 10 to solve problems.

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Windows Admin Center HCI Management Now Available for Windows Server 2016

After the release of a patch for Windows Server 2016 on April 16th, it’s now possible to manage hyper-converged infrastructure using the Windows Admin Center.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows — April 2018

This month, Windows 10 goes on a diet, the April Update is delayed, and Project Honolulu reaches general availability as the Windows Admin Center.

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Access Azure Virtual Machines Using the Serial Console Recovery Tool

In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to access an Azure Windows Server virtual machine using the serial console independently of the OS and network.

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Windows Admin Center — The Future of the Windows Server GUI

In this post, I’ll look at why Windows Admin Center is the new GUI management tool of choice for Windows Server.

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Patch Tuesday — April 2018

This month’s Patch Tuesday fixes 63 CVE vulnerabilities, 17 of which are critical for Windows 10.

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Microsoft Announces New Project VAST Security Visualization Tool

With a little help from Power BI and Azure Log Analytics, Microsoft’s new Project VAST promises to make it easier to identify important security events.

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Microsoft Releases Remote Desktop HTML5 Client Preview

At last year’s Ignite, Microsoft announced that it was developing an HTML5 web client for Remote Desktop Services. At the end of March, Microsoft made a preview available.

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