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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.
Learn about new security defenses in Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 Creators Update.
In this article, Russell Smith shares his thoughts about how to live peacefully with the tech in your life.
Learn how to vertically scale VMs in a VMSS using Azure Automation.
Learn how Windows Ink enables pen input in useful ways in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
Learn how to enable Storage Service Encryption for storage accounts in Microsoft Azure.
Learn how to get started quickly with Windows Containers and Docker with a little bit of help from Microsoft Azure.
Russell Smith shows you how to deploy VMs in a Virtual Machine Scale Set with autoscaling enabled and a load balancer on the front end.
Learn how Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management can improve tenant security.
Learn how Virtual Machine Scale Sets and Managed Disks make Azure Autoscale easier to work with.
Learn about the different types of Azure storage account and Managed Disks.