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In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how this mechanism works and how you can change the way that it works.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how to use the ADDS Database Mounting Tool to look at backups of AD.

In today’s Ask the Admin, we discuss whether it’s necessary to use third-party antimalware in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 on your company’s PCs.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to change the system disk partition type from MBR to GPT in Windows 10 Creators Update using a command-line tool.

Because Meltdown and Spectre are the gifts that keep on giving, this edition of Short Takes looks at more news about these vulnerabilities, CES 2018, and more.

Russell Smith explains how to integrate the clean source principle into your Active Directory design and management practices to keep your systems secure.

Microsoft says that Office 365 will support internationalized email addresses (EAI) in Q1 2018. Support is limited to inbound and outbound email and you will not be able to assign email addresses with non-Latin characters to Office 365 accounts until all the heavy lifting is done to make sure that nothing breaks, including in hybrid organizations.

Aidan Finn reviews his highlights in the last year of Azure infrastructure improvements. Please share your highlights too.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how Windows Defender Application Guard can protect enterprise users against malicious websites.

Aidan Finn explains some of the language that is used to specify and size Azure SQL, the database-as-a-service offering from Microsoft Azure.

With the patching of the Meltdown vulnerability, there will be serious impacts to performance to older CPUs and thanks to Microsoft, we now have a better understanding of the implications of this security flaw.

In the final part of this series, Russell Smith shows you how to use the code I created in the previous two installments to provision the resources in Azure.