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Learn how to query XML Event Log data using XPath to make your custom views even more valuable.

In navigating the tricky waters of the post-PC world, Microsoft is trying to make up ever-dwindling revenues from traditional businesses like Windows, Office and Server with new subscription services and mobile offerings. But it’s become increasingly clear that in doing so, Microsoft may also need to leave those brands behind. Which is fine, since Microsoft…

Learn how to gather Internet Explorer usage telemetry with the Enterprise Site Discovery Toolkit.

An inadvertently leaked memo reveals that the Federal Trade Commission determined that Google had violated US antitrust laws in abusing its monopoly search power to harm both competitors and consumers alike. But the FTC never revealed these findings and the search giant was allowed to continue its abusive behavior after voluntarily agreeing to make inconsequential…

Tim Warner provides helpful instructions on how to uninstall Windows PowerShell.

This post shows you how to create an Azure RemoteApp custom template using an Azure virtual machine.

Because you know to call the A-Team and not the B-Team, this week’s other news includes a shocking revelation that the FTC found sweeping Google antitrust violations and did nothing about them, Microsoft’s open sourcing of the MSBuild engine, an HTC upheaval, China’s latest “Baghdad Bob” moment, and no web browsers are safe. Shocker: FTC…

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks walks us through string parsing with regular expressions in this second installment in his article series about parsing text strings with PowerShell.

We’ve all heard of SDN (Software Defined Networking) but have you heard of Cisco ACI? What is this ACI we are hearing about from Cisco and how does it relate to SDN? is it powered by unicorns? Join us as we discover the details of ACI with @malhoit.  

Russell Smith shows us how to make Event Viewer in Windows Server a more useful tool by creating custom views.

With Windows 10, Microsoft is pushing a new web browser—currently codenamed Project Spartan—over its legacy Internet Explorer. But it’s not clear what the real strategy is here, since a new web browser that runs only on Windows is fundamentally just as constrained as the browser it seeks to replace. Microsoft first launched Internet Explorer 20…

Aidan Finn provides tips based on his lessons learned from deploying Azure Site Recovery with a customer recently.