Russell Smith

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to set up two-factor authentication for Microsoft Accounts which is an excellent way to secure your account.

Due to the nature of the tasks Active Directory (AD) performs as an identity management solution, inactive objects are not only an inconvenience, cluttering the directory with outdated and unused objects, but also pose a security risk. Third-party AD management solutions, such as Softerra Adaxes, can take much of the risk out of the process.

Microsoft distributes Office 2016 to consumers and Office 365 users using Click-To-Run, a streaming and virtualization technology that’s based on App-V. There are several advantages to distributing Office with Click-to-Run, as opposed to a traditional Windows Installer package.

Secure your Skype account by merging it with a Microsoft Account.

Azure DNS does give you is the ability to use Microsoft’s infrastructure for resolving name queries for your domain’s zones. Learn more about this new feature.

Manually setting up users in Active Directory is not only tedious, but also error prone. PowerShell alone doesn’t provide an easy way to create new AD user accounts. Learn about another option that saves time and money by reducing downtime for users and the workload for HR and IT.

Get insight into the generally available Azure Active Directory (AAD) Domain Services and the changes that have been made to the managed service since it previewed.

Find out how to deploy an image to a container in Windows Server 2016, create a new image, and upload it to Docker.

Satya Nadella’s recent “trust in computing” speech highlighted the need for dependable, secure, trustworthy computing. Let’s look at how Microsoft is slowly building out Windows 10 to provide that trust for enterprises across all types of devices.

Technology gets a bad rap when it doesn’t work as expected, but experience shows it’s not always the tech that’s at fault. Selecting the right tool is crucial if it isn’t to be more hindrance than help.

In September, Microsoft announced native support for USB Audio 2.0 out-of-the-box in Windows 10, and is available starting in Redstone 2 build 14931 for Windows Insiders. This is not the same as USB 2.0, which Windows has supported for years, but a standard for connecting professional, semi-professional, and Hi-Fi audio equipment to computers.

Microsoft recognizes the real power of cloud services, such as Office 365, lies not necessarily in the client apps that we use to access and work with data, but in the ability to tap into data and use analytics and business intelligence (BI) to get insights for making business decisions. Often knowledge workers don’t need complex BI or analytics, but just access to company data that has already been presented in a document so that it can be reused somewhere else. Sounds like it ought to be a simple task, right?