Russell Smith

Russell shows you how to manage Azure virtual machines (VMs) using the Windows Admin Center (WAC).

LAPS-managed local administrator accounts can be used for remote administration providing that policy doesn’t block their use.

Azure VM Image Builder is a new tool for Microsoft’s cloud that lets you provision ISO or Azure Marketplace images with your own customizations, like security settings or installed software.

Here’s how the Windows Update Delivery Optimization feature works in Windows 10 and show you how to configure it using Group Policy.

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.