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Identifying members of local groups is an ongoing task for IT pros. In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us a new way to find local groups and members with PowerShell.

Because Windows XP will never really go away, this week’s other news includes an EU “I told you so” to the US DOJ and FTC, Google’s Chrome support extension for Windows XP, a major delay for SharePoint 2016, the Apple Watch launch that wasn’t, Google adds handwriting support to Android, Nokia buys rival and sets…

Have a non-responsive VM locked solid in Microsoft Azure? Russell Smith shows you how to leverage PowerShell to unstuck a stuck VM in this helpful tutorial.

We all love it. We all hate it. SharePoint. Is it just a glorified file server with sidebars and images? Or have we not really seen the full potential of this powerful collaboration tool? We dive head first into the world of SharePoint with our guest Jared Shockley (@jshoq), Microsoft Service Engineer for SharePoint, to…

Microsoft has closed an important deal with Yahoo, which will continue using Bing technologies in its own search experience. The only question what concessions Microsoft made to keep the partnership alive, as Yahoo was known to have been unhappy with search revenues and was actively seeking to change the deal or engage with a new…

Learn how to create numbered output lists with PowerShell in this article by PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks.

Learn how to apply and rollback security policies for Windows Server using the Security Configuration Wizard.

  European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Wednesday formally accused Google of violating antitrust laws by abusing its dominance in Internet search to harm competitors and consumers. Additionally, Ms. Vestager said that her European Commission was investigating whether Google forces phone makers to favor its own services on the Android mobile OS. Google controls…

Google is firing the latest salvo in the form of a host of new updates to a variety of Google Cloud Networking services.

Aidan Finn discusses how Microsoft is limiting their potential market by arbitrarily restricting features or limiting services to one or a few countries.

After a decade of steady exoduses by top Microsoft executives, a few are starting to return home: following in the footsteps of Stephen Elop, Kurt DelBene has returned to the software giant after two years serving the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and overseeing Healthcare.gov, the Obamacare web portal. DelBene has been named…

Jeff Hicks continues his article series on building a ping sweep tool with PowerShell. In this article, he shows us how to easily add parameter validation to our tool.