Russell Smith

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith uses a PowerShell script to populate Active Directory with test user accounts.

Microsoft announced the general availability of PowerShell Core 6.0 on January 10th. In this Ask the Admin, we will look at the roadmap for PowerShell and some of the dramatic changes since Microsoft announced that PowerShell will be open source.

This month’s Patch Tuesday is one of the most interesting in a while. Not just because the patches Microsoft was preparing for release today came a week early, but also because of the potential issues these patches might cause.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how this mechanism works and how you can change the way that it works.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how to use the ADDS Database Mounting Tool to look at backups of AD.

In today’s Ask the Admin, we discuss whether it’s necessary to use third-party antimalware in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 on your company’s PCs.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to change the system disk partition type from MBR to GPT in Windows 10 Creators Update using a command-line tool.

Russell Smith explains how to integrate the clean source principle into your Active Directory design and management practices to keep your systems secure.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how Windows Defender Application Guard can protect enterprise users against malicious websites.

In the final part of this series, Russell Smith shows you how to use the code I created in the previous two installments to provision the resources in Azure.

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at the pros and cons of each browser for use in the enterprise.