Russell Smith

Hyper-V is the built-in hypervisor that comes free in Windows and Windows Server. It is used to run virtual machines (VM) on Windows. Virtualization is also used for other features, like Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), Windows Sandbox, and Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG). Developers sometimes use virtualization with Visual Studio to run device emulators. Microsoft introduced…

Windows 10 includes all the software you need to set up a virtual machine (VM). Using a feature called Hyper-V, a hardware-based hypervisor for virtualization, you can install Windows 10 and other operating systems in VMs running in Windows 10. You can think of it like running a computer inside a computer; where the host…

Intel releases 27 10th generation CPUs for desktop and mobile with Hardware Shield to improve remote worker security.

As Microsoft puts it, teams and channels are where ‘real work gets done’. Let’s look more closely at Teams channels vs chats. Microsoft Teams is a complex tool that allows users to collaborate using a mixture of apps provided by Microsoft 365, like OneDrive files, SharePoint libraries, Microsoft Lists, Planner, Approvals, and many others. In…

It’s been a busy month. Microsoft started testing the next Windows 11 ‘moment’, plus the Unified Update Platform (UUP) is coming to WSUS and ConfigMgr at the end of March. And Microsoft is now officially supporting Windows on Arm on Apple silicon. And much more! So, let’s get started. Windows 11 ‘Moment’ drops Microsoft announced…

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how you can manage the new OneDrive Files On-Demand feature in the Fall Creators Update.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell explains what Known Folder Migration (KFM) is in OneDrive for Business and show you how to configure it using Group Policy.

Tauri is a cross-platform programming framework based on Rust. In this article, you’ll learn why Tauri might take over from Electron as the cross-platform framework of choice and how the framework is used. What is the Tauri framework? Tauri is a relatively new cross-platform application framework. Many apps we use day-to-day, like Slack, Microsoft Teams,…

In the second part of this series, I show you how to create a Windows Virtual Desktop tenant.

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.