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During Microsoft Ignite, I took part in a community panel discussion on PowerShell. Well, not so much a discussion as questions and answers. One of the questions, which I get from time to time, concerned how to change the color of error messages in the PowerShell console. It is actually quite easy, and once you…

Learn how to create PowerShell Scheduled Jobs to repeat itself for a specified amount of time in this quick tutorial by Jeff Hicks.

Aidan Finn explains what he believes to be Hyper-V’s biggest weakness for Microsoft and provides a strategy to improve the service for IT pros.

“A new competitor ‘born’ on the Internet is Netscape,” Microsoft CEO Bill Gates awkwardly wrote in his Internet Tidal wave memo to employees on May 26, 1995. The memo went on to rally the troops, as Microsoft defeated Netscape, embraced and extended Internet technologies, and dominated the market for web browsers. And yet today, 20…

In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us steps to create alias, along with steps for finding orphan aliases.

Jeff Hicks provides a look into SAPIEN Technologies’ PowerShell Help Writer 2015, which helps IT pros write better PowerShell documentation.

Because I will turn around and go back home if you two don’t shut up, this week’s other news includes Intel’s CEO throwing cold water on Windows 10, a potential Microsoft purchase of Blackberry, a Windows 3.0 anniversary, Microsoft’s big milestone in Ireland, that coy Nokia CEO and his plans for HERE, and HP’s plans…

The New-JobTrigger cmdlet in Windows PowerShell is a great way to set up scheduled jobs for better automation of daily tasks.

Jeff provides his must-learn skills for Windows System Administrators for a successful career, which include PowerShell and Microsoft Azure.

Find out about the differences between Azure Availability Sets and Affinity Groups, and when you should use which.

A recent leak reinforces an emerging view of Microsoft as being on the cusp of a new era of productivity. That is, while Microsoft is working to move its most successful traditional software products to popular mobile platforms and to the cloud, it is also working behind the scenes to effectively undercut those offerings with…

Learn how to access Azure Automation job history to troubleshoot problems with runbooks.