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Russell Smith shows us how to make Event Viewer in Windows Server a more useful tool by creating custom views.

With Windows 10, Microsoft is pushing a new web browser—currently codenamed Project Spartan—over its legacy Internet Explorer. But it’s not clear what the real strategy is here, since a new web browser that runs only on Windows is fundamentally just as constrained as the browser it seeks to replace. Microsoft first launched Internet Explorer 20…

Aidan Finn provides tips based on his lessons learned from deploying Azure Site Recovery with a customer recently.

A growing failure in the market for video game consoles it once dominated, Nintendo will finally turn its attention to mobile devices. The video game firm announced Tuesday morning that it is partnering with Tokyo-based DeNA to jointly develop games for smart phones and other devices. “Both companies will develop and operate new game apps…

Jeff Hicks shows us how to query the DSC compliance server with PowerShell 4.0 in this quick tutorial.

This article explains how you can create a Recovery Plan (RP) for managing and orchestrating the failover of Hyper-V virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft announced a variety of business software and service offerings during a Monday morning keynote at the Convergence 2015 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Pledging to transform business by putting data to work, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hailed the software giant’s efforts as a “culture of empowerment.” “Businesses are hungry to seize new opportunities using technologies…

Join us as we speak VDI with Citrix CTP and vExpert Mike Nelson (@nelmedia).  In this episode we will discuss Citrix XenDesktop as a virtualization platform.  If you haven’t considered VDI, learn what this technology can do for your organization and what you should be thinking about.  Learn what customers feel about Citrix as a VDI solution.  We…

Jeff Hicks shows us how to add trace information to a PowerShell ping tool in his latest article.

Because sometimes it’s better to be right than to be loved, this week’s other news includes a reported Microsoft plan to bring Cortana to (gasp!) Android and iOS, an MSN move into the Windows group, Xbox One still doesn’t beat PS4 despite record sales, IDC cuts PC sales forecast for 2015, how that change will…

Russell Smith shows us how to configure distributed file system replication in Windows Server 2012 R2 in this step-by-step tutorial.

Russell Smith shows us a simple way to enable notifications to open firewall ports in Windows Server 2012 R2 in this step-by-step tutorial.