Russell Smith

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll compare Azure Operational Insights (OpInsights) with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), and discover whether OpInsights replaces SCOM.

Russell walks through the steps to add a language pack to a Windows 10 machine. As part of the process, a user should temporarily become a member of the local Administrators group.

Always Encrypted is a feature of SQL Server 2016 that Microsoft released in Azure SQL Database in June 2016. Russell describes what Always Encrypted technology is and how it works with Azure SQL Database.

Russell demonstrates how to use PowerShell to quickly create a self-signed certificate, which are handy to use in test scenarios where a certificate is a requirement.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at why you might need to back up data stored in the cloud and two options for backing up Office 365.

Learn how to change which users can have their account credentials cached on read-only domain controllers (RODC).

This handy Office tip demonstrates two techniques to export images from a Word document.

Russell shows how to create your first Azure SQL Database, configure a firewall and connect to the database using Visual Studio.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at a new feature, coming in next week’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU), that allows Mobile Continuum to connect to the display of any device running Windows 10, without Microsoft’s Display Dock or additional peripherals. In the time since I wrote Windows 10 Continuum: Could Your Next Phone…

In this article about GitHub for Windows, learn how to add branches to GitHub repos, create pull requests and deal with merge conflicts.

This article is an overview of Windows Store for Business, which businesses can use to create their own private portals for distributing purchased apps or apps developed in-house.

Russell shows how to create an Azure Automation account, upload and compile a DSC configuration, and on board an Azure VM.