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Learn what happens during a Microsoft Azure shutdown, how to recover, and avoid running out of Azure open credit in the future.

Apple reported a net profit of $13.6 billion on revenues of 58 billion in the quarter ending March 31, thanks to continued strong sales of iPhone 6 and strong growth in China, the world’s largest market. By all accounts, it was another blockbuster quarter for the consumer electronics company. “We are thrilled by the continued…

Russell Smith walks us through improvements to a PowerShell script to automate domain member server deployment in Microsoft Azure.

Learn how to leverage cmdkey.exe, a command-line tool that makes it simple to shop for the credentials you need.

Because you just can’t make this stuff up, this week’s other news includes Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report, Office successes on Android and iOS, Microsoft ignores HERE sale, Google’s ad sales, Apple’s Watch goes on sale, a volcano erupts, Amazon keeps losing money but is killing it in the cloud, and an unflattering Apple logo is…

Curious about what the newly-named Windows 10 Device Guard is all about? Russell explains how Windows 10 Device Guard differs from AppLocker.

Microsoft on Thursday announced the financial results for its fiscal 2015 third quarter, which ended March 31. The software giant posted an operating profit of $6.6 billion on revenues of $21.7 billion, though the results were negatively impacted by the strong US dollar and ongoing fees related to its acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services…

The PowerShell Summit is coming to a close, and Jeff Hicks provides some insight into where PowerShell is headed and how it affects the IT pro’s career in the future.

“I feel the need, the need for speed.” That’s what Tom Cruise first said and now almost everyone is saying it. We want things faster! With the ever increasing need for speed and faster performance, enterprise and consumers alike are turning to Solid State Drives (SSD). Will SSD save us from latency pains? Do you still…

Will Microsoft’s Lumia 640 be able to boost Windows Phone sales in 2015?

Google on Wednesday announced Project Fi, a new low-cost cell phone service that it is launching in the United States. Fi will ride on the backs of Sprint and T-Mobile and will seamlessly switch to Wi-Fi when available, even for phone calls and text messages. But as you may expect, it comes with some serious…

This year’s Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Summit focused on highlighting the latest cloud security threats and how IT security professionals can mitigate them.