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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.

Russell Smith shows us how to easily create custom security policies for Windows Server using the Security Configuration Wizard to suit your organization’s business needs.

Learn how to easily find local user accounts using PowerShell with this step-by-step tutorial by Jeff Hicks.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy Microsoft Anti-Malware to Azure virtual machines at scale with scanning exceptions and schedules using PowerShell.

Because your Apple Watch isn’t arriving until June anyway, this week’s other news includes Microsoft’s mobile payments mulligan, the secret plan to advertise Windows 10 to Windows 7/8.1 users, PC sales fell again in the first quarter, Apple Watch debuts, the EU is serious about Google, and Lynda.com gets a big payday. Microsoft to try,…

Microsoft currently offers both on-premises Windows Server versions and Azure in the cloud. But with the coming generation of Nano Server capabilities in Windows Server vNext, the differences between these product lines are about to blur even further. You can learn more about Nano Server in Aidan Finn’s article, Microsoft Announces Nano Server. And be…

Microsoft announces new Hyper-V containers for better application virtualization in the next version of Windows Server, referred to as Windows Server vNext.

Skype for Business? What is this product that Microsoft has just launched? Lync has been rapidly gaining market share on the Unified Communications space, so why launch Skype for Business, you ask? What will happen to Lync? Join us as we chat with Pat Richard (@patrichard), Microsoft MVP, about Skype for Business and what it…

Microsoft has officially unveiled Windows Nano Server, but what does the news mean for system administrators? Russell Smith provides his thoughts in his latest commentary.

Microsoft announces Nano Server, a server OS optimized for cloud infrastructure and born-in-the-cloud applications.