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Microsoft is suing Kyocera, a Japanese consumer electronics maker whose Android products it says are infringing on seven Microsoft patents. Kyocera is one of only a handful of Android device makers to refuse to license Microsoft’s relevant patents, following firms such as Motorola and Barnes & Noble, the latter of which eventually settled. “Among [the]…

Aidan Finn dishes out five reasons why he’s smitten with Microsoft Azure RemoteApp.

Jeff Hicks shows us an alternative way to create ZIP archives with PowerShell that doesn’t rely on using .NET compression classes.

Google quietly revealed last week that its unpopular Google+ social networking service is going to be split into multiple separate services, including Google Streams, Google Photos and Google Hangouts. The move follows a difficult few years for Google+, which was once seen as a connective layer across many of Google’s services for individuals. “The rumors…

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…