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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.

It’s been an interesting week, with both Apple and Google launching expensive, high-end PCs built around the new USB Type C (USB-C) standard, which delivers power, data and display over a single connector. The only question now is how long it will take Microsoft and the Windows PC ecosystem to jump on the bandwagon. On…

Learn how to use PowerShell to find non-system service accounts in this primer by Petri Contributing Editor Jeff Hicks.

Learn how to create a Distributed File System Namespace in Windows Server 2012 R2 in this tutorial by Russell Smith.

Russell Smith shows us how to easily back up and restore Group Policy Objects with the help of PowerShell.

As part of its normal monthly Patch Tuesday, Microsoft this week patched the widely publicized FREAK flaw in all supported Windows versions. Overall, the software giant issued 14 separate security bulletins—all but two of which are for Windows—and fixed over 40 vulnerabilities. When the FREAK—for “Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys”—vulnerability was first disclosed a few…

Daniel Petri shows us an alternative method for managing local Active Directory groups, this time with the help of the “This group is a member of” Group Policy control.

Russell Smith walks us through improvements to his script used for automating domain controller deployment in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft is suing Kyocera, a Japanese consumer electronics maker whose Android products it says are infringing on seven Microsoft patents. Kyocera is one of only a handful of Android device makers to refuse to license Microsoft’s relevant patents, following firms such as Motorola and Barnes & Noble, the latter of which eventually settled. “Among [the]…

Aidan Finn dishes out five reasons why he’s smitten with Microsoft Azure RemoteApp.

Jeff Hicks shows us an alternative way to create ZIP archives with PowerShell that doesn’t rely on using .NET compression classes.

Google quietly revealed last week that its unpopular Google+ social networking service is going to be split into multiple separate services, including Google Streams, Google Photos and Google Hangouts. The move follows a difficult few years for Google+, which was once seen as a connective layer across many of Google’s services for individuals. “The rumors…