Russell Smith

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll kill two birds with one stone by showing you how to enable secure PowerShell Remoting in Azure virtual machines (VMs) and on-premises servers running Windows Server 2012 R2.

Learn all about Exchange Online Archiving, a set of optional features that can be purchased separately from Exchange Online, which is also included in some Office 365 plans.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to quickly get a list of users connected to a server via Remote Desktop (RDP).

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to create a repo in GitHub that you can use with Azure DevTest Labs. As we move more towards using declarative configuration technologies like Azure Resource Manager (ARM), PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), and in the not too distant future Azure Stack for Windows Server 2016,…

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains the difference between an in-place hold and a litigation hold in Exchange.

Learn how to create a Network Security Group in Azure, using PowerShell Azure Resource Manager, to control inbound and outbound traffic.

Learn more about Microsoft’s new Azure DevTest Labs service and what it has to offer to developers and sysadmins.

Russell Smith shows us how best to set up application control policies in Windows using AppLocker.

Learn how to add a member server to an existing domain using a Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template.

Russell Smith shows us how to stop various Windows 10 apps and OS components from sending or receiving data to and from Microsoft.

Russell Smith shows us steps on how to block processing of untrusted fonts using the Graphics Device Interface (GDI) in Windows 10.

From a single portable USB disk to enterprise-grade Storage Area Networks (SANs), Russell Smith will explain the differences between three key storage technologies to help you understand which is most suitable for your needs.