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Servers go down. Systems crash. Lights go out in the datacenter. As a sysadmin, being informed of these outages are key to keeping the datacenter up and running. Join us as we discuss alert and monitoring without all the white noise with Leon Adato @leonadato, Head Geek at SolarWinds. You can be alerted all you want,…

Aidan Finn explains how Microsoft is bringing Azure to your data center on your terms using Azure Stack.

Aidan Finn provides a summary of Microsoft Azure IaaS announcements at Build and Ignite 2015.

With important countries like the USA and UK debating whether to require tech firms to enable encryption back doors, Microsoft has finally spoken up.

The SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP2) is now available to download and provides a first look into Always Encrypted and Stretch Database capabilities.

During Microsoft Ignite, I took part in a community panel discussion on PowerShell. Well, not so much a discussion as questions and answers. One of the questions, which I get from time to time, concerned how to change the color of error messages in the PowerShell console. It is actually quite easy, and once you…

Learn how to create PowerShell Scheduled Jobs to repeat itself for a specified amount of time in this quick tutorial by Jeff Hicks.

Aidan Finn explains what he believes to be Hyper-V’s biggest weakness for Microsoft and provides a strategy to improve the service for IT pros.

“A new competitor ‘born’ on the Internet is Netscape,” Microsoft CEO Bill Gates awkwardly wrote in his Internet Tidal wave memo to employees on May 26, 1995. The memo went on to rally the troops, as Microsoft defeated Netscape, embraced and extended Internet technologies, and dominated the market for web browsers. And yet today, 20…

In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us steps to create alias, along with steps for finding orphan aliases.

Jeff Hicks provides a look into SAPIEN Technologies’ PowerShell Help Writer 2015, which helps IT pros write better PowerShell documentation.

Because I will turn around and go back home if you two don’t shut up, this week’s other news includes Intel’s CEO throwing cold water on Windows 10, a potential Microsoft purchase of Blackberry, a Windows 3.0 anniversary, Microsoft’s big milestone in Ireland, that coy Nokia CEO and his plans for HERE, and HP’s plans…