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Because Van Halen with Gary Cherone was most certainly NOT Van Halen, this week’s other news includes a super FREAKy revelation that Windows is also vulnerable to a decades-old encryption hack, news that’s not from Barcelona, Microsoft is looking to buy a social media news reader, Hillary Clinton was an email admin, and thieves are…

Blair Greenwood shares her list of top SQL Server experts on Twitter to follow on Twitter to make your SQL Server learning experience easier.

Daniel Petri walks us through the steps on managing local Active Groups with the help of Group Policy Restricted Groups.

An all-star lineup! Smartphones, tablets, hololens, fitbit…what’s up with all this technology?! Are we in tech overload? With all these advances in tech, let’s stroll down memory lane and look at how has technology has shaped our lives. What couldn’t you live without that you didn’t have growing up? We’ll be joined by an all-star line-up…

Russell Smith shows us two different approaches to renaming Windows devices.

Russell Smith shows us how to migrate Windows Server 2003 file servers using Windows Server migration tools.

In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us how to leverage PowerShell to identify, enable, and reset folders with blocked inheritance.

Many web sites and mobile devices are at risk of electronic attack thanks to a newly discovered security vulnerability that dates back to the 1990s. Dubbed FREAK, this vulnerability was inadvertently caused by the lifting of strong encryption requirements for products exported from the United States over two decades ago. FREAK—for “Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT…

Learn how to use PowerShell and WMI to find file folders by type in this article by PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks.

Aidan Finn provides step-by-step instructions for replicating Hyper-V virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.

Google plans to enter the US wireless market with a hybrid “Wi-Fi first” service that will seamlessly bridge Wi-Fi and cellular data connections, and provide voice, text and data capabilities across both. As with the firm’s fiber optic efforts, this “experiment” will start at a small scale and not immediately threaten the four big wireless…

Some Microsoft PowerPoint slides leaked over the weekend reveal a new “Nano Server” role in Windows Server vNext. Editorial Director Jeff James gives us his take on the news.