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  Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer may have driven a tougher bargain with Microsoft than originally expected: According to a recently revealed regulatory filing, both Yahoo and Microsoft can now terminate their recently renegotiated search deal as soon as October 2015, a full five years earlier than before. This is a fairly stunning achievement for Mayer, who…

Learn how to identify a computer name with a custom ping sweep tool created in Windows PowerShell.

Russell Smith walks us through on how to search the file system in PowerShell and provides steps on how to query the Windows Search index using SQL.

Last year’s TechEd was the last for the long-running conference, but the most notable thing about it was the utter lack of on-premises announcements. But on the eve of TechEd’s successor, Ignite—which gets underway in two weeks in Chicago—it’s clear that TechEd 2014 wasn’t an exception. Microsoft’s move to the cloud has seriously hindered its…

Identifying members of local groups is an ongoing task for IT pros. In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us a new way to find local groups and members with PowerShell.

Because Windows XP will never really go away, this week’s other news includes an EU “I told you so” to the US DOJ and FTC, Google’s Chrome support extension for Windows XP, a major delay for SharePoint 2016, the Apple Watch launch that wasn’t, Google adds handwriting support to Android, Nokia buys rival and sets…

Have a non-responsive VM locked solid in Microsoft Azure? Russell Smith shows you how to leverage PowerShell to unstuck a stuck VM in this helpful tutorial.

We all love it. We all hate it. SharePoint. Is it just a glorified file server with sidebars and images? Or have we not really seen the full potential of this powerful collaboration tool? We dive head first into the world of SharePoint with our guest Jared Shockley (@jshoq), Microsoft Service Engineer for SharePoint, to…

Microsoft has closed an important deal with Yahoo, which will continue using Bing technologies in its own search experience. The only question what concessions Microsoft made to keep the partnership alive, as Yahoo was known to have been unhappy with search revenues and was actively seeking to change the deal or engage with a new…

Learn how to create numbered output lists with PowerShell in this article by PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks.

Learn how to apply and rollback security policies for Windows Server using the Security Configuration Wizard.

  European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Wednesday formally accused Google of violating antitrust laws by abusing its dominance in Internet search to harm competitors and consumers. Additionally, Ms. Vestager said that her European Commission was investigating whether Google forces phone makers to favor its own services on the Android mobile OS. Google controls…