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Many web sites and mobile devices are at risk of electronic attack thanks to a newly discovered security vulnerability that dates back to the 1990s. Dubbed FREAK, this vulnerability was inadvertently caused by the lifting of strong encryption requirements for products exported from the United States over two decades ago. FREAK—for “Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT…

Learn how to use PowerShell and WMI to find file folders by type in this article by PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks.

Aidan Finn provides step-by-step instructions for replicating Hyper-V virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.

Google plans to enter the US wireless market with a hybrid “Wi-Fi first” service that will seamlessly bridge Wi-Fi and cellular data connections, and provide voice, text and data capabilities across both. As with the firm’s fiber optic efforts, this “experiment” will start at a small scale and not immediately threaten the four big wireless…

Some Microsoft PowerPoint slides leaked over the weekend reveal a new “Nano Server” role in Windows Server vNext. Editorial Director Jeff James gives us his take on the news.

Learn how to test URIs and URLs with PowerShell in this how-to article by Windows PowerShell Microsoft MVP Jeff Hicks.

In this opinion post, Petri Contributing Editor Aidan Finn wonders what Steve Jobs would have done with Microsoft.

Want to setup single sign-on (SSO) for enterprise apps using Azure Active Directory? Russell Smith walks us through the process in this helpful tutorial.

Because you accept no substitutes, this week’s other news includes Microsoft at Mobile World Congress next week, Microsoft finally decides to replace IE with something that works, the salacious tale of a Microsoft employee’s expense account, why on earth is the PlayStation 4 so popular, and Apple is about to invent the Surface, er, iPad…

Russell Smith serves us three helpful ways to connect to the Office 365 Reporting Service from Excel for easier report viewing.

Russell Smith shows us how to delete Office 365 users and change account properties with Windows PowerShell.

Aidan Finn walks us through enabling Hyper-V to Azure DR replication by configuring a Hyper-V host or cluster to replicate to ASR.