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If there is one cmdlet that confuses PowerShell beginners more than anything, it is Write-Host. Newcomers see commands like Write-Output, Write-Host, and if running PowerShell 5.0 Write-Information. Determining which one to use can be a bit overwhelming. So let me make it simple: For now you can ignore Write-Information.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including some internal musing, the company is trying more ads on the desktop, NYC trip, year end and a lot more.

Because how could it possibly be July already, this edition of Short Takes focuses on HP’s new PC as a Service scheme, an Office 365 outage in the US, Dell’s decision to kill its Android tablet line, Oracle’s big court case loss, Elizabeth Warren’s trust-busting, and so much more.

Preparing for disaster recovery is worth more than gold when an outage occurs. When the recovery process acts and feels like muscle memory instead of a scramble to figure out what to do, a business can recover faster and avoid the costly outages that impact every organization at some time or another.

This post will show you how to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or a CSP subscription to deploy network security and policy enforcement in the form of network security groups (NSGs).

We’ve come along way since we started this project on building a PowerShell hot fix reporting tool. We’ve wrapped up our functionality around the Get-Hotfix cmdlet. But there’s more to be done.

Network security groups (NSGs) can offer network security and policy enforcement for virtual networks in an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or CSP deployment.

Modifying the HOSTS hosts file causes your computer to look directly at the IP address specified in it. This is useful, for example, when you want to test a website before going live with a public DNS name, or when you want to prevent your computer from resolving a DNS name, thus preventing it from reaching it.

Learn how to quickly deploy a new virtual machine-based Active Directory domain in Azure using a JSON template in Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

Join us Monday, June 27th at 9:15 pm EDT for another episode of Current Status. During this episode of Current Status, co-hosts Theresa Miller and Phoummala Schmitt talk with guest Julie O’Brien (@julieaobrien), Nutanix Vice President of Corporate Marketing.

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.

Microsoft has announced the release of Enterprise State Roaming for Windows 10 business customers and we dive into what this feature offers.