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Aidan Finn serves up a number of tips to help you with troubleshooting Hyper-V networking issues in Windows Server Hyper-V and Windows client Hyper-V.

Microsoft and Samsung have quietly settled a major contract dispute that threatened Samsung’s use of the Android mobile OS on its smart phones and tablets. The bad news: Absolutely no details about this agreement have been made public. It doesn’t get any terser than this statement: “Microsoft and Samsung have agreed on settlement terms that…

Daniel Petri shows us how this free and helpful PowerShell script can reduce the time needed to document your Active Directory environment.

Russell Smith shows us how to enable Tracking Protection in Internet Explorer to improve privacy and speed up your web browsing.

Jeff Hicks shows us how to easily find folders with specific file types with PowerShell.

Russell Smith teaches us how to install and migrate DHCP settings, as well as steps for demoting a Windows Server 2003 domain controller, and raising domain and forest functional levels.

As part of an announcement about the February 2014 updates to Intune, Microsoft also announced that it would now rapidly add new capabilities to the cloud PC and device management services “at cloud speed.” More specifically, Intune will now receive new features every month going forward. Not that February’s update isn’t big news in and…

In this week’s other news, Satya Nadella celebrates year one as Microsoft CEO but I raise questions, Radio Shack bites the dust, and Obama’s iPhone preview.

In this series on migrating from Windows Server 2003 to 2012 R2, learn how to easily install Active Directory, as well as steps for transferring FSMO Roles.

While everyone is familiar with Juno, the failed Eastern blizzard of 2015, it is only us in the IT community who found the name of the storm hilarious, since Juno is the name of the latest OpenStack release.  Eric Wright (@DiscoPosse), Technology Evangelist and Principal Solutions Engineer at VMturbo, and speaker from the last two…

According to a report in TechCrunch, Microsoft’s manic bid to dominate mobile productivity continued this week with an as-yet-unannounced $100+ million purchase of online calendar maker Sunrise. The Sunrise calendar is notable for a number of reasons, including its pervasive support for third-party data sources. And this purchase complements an earlier $200 million purchase of…

Russell Smith shows us how to migrate Active Directory domain controllers running Windows Server 2003, including DNS and DHCP, to Windows Server 2012 R2.