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Using PowerShell to Find Disabled or Inactive User Accounts in Active Directory

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us a way to find disabled or inactive user accounts in Active Directory with the help of the Search-ADAccount cmdlet.

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Millions of Android Devices Infected by Malicious Apps

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Google has pulled three adware-distributing apps from its Play Store, but only after several millions devices were infected with the malicious software.

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Migrating from Windows Server 2003: Getting Started

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Learn how to prepare for a migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2 in this new article series from Russell Smith.

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Microsoft Azure SQL Database Now Includes New Security, Automation Features

Azure SQL Database now includes a slew of new security and automation improvements to help make your time spent with the service more productive.

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Microsoft Outlines Its Plan to Evolve SharePoint for the Cloud First, Mobile First Era

While “mobile first, cloud first” has caused some confusion and even fear with fans and users of Microsoft’s client systems, the impact of this strategy on the firm’s on-premises servers is no less dramatic. With worries about the future mounting, Microsoft this week finally began addressing how and when it will update its servers for…

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Getting Hyper-V Integration Components via Windows Update

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Upgrading Hyper-V Integration Components has traditionally been a very tedious process, but Microsoft is changing that with the next version of Windows Server.

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Grouping PowerShell Objects with Group-Object

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn how to group PowerShell objects using the Group-Object cmdlet in this how-to by Contributing Editor Jeff Hicks.

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Android and iOS Leave Little Room for Windows in the Smart Phone Market

Last Update: Jun 27, 2025

It will come as no surprise that Android and iOS continued to dominate the global smart phone market in 2014, with Windows Phone stuck in a very distant third place. But there are big questions for 2015. Can Apple’s fourth quarter gains turn into something non-temporary and reverse the firm’s historic market share slide downward?…

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Microsoft Outlines OneDrive for Business Data at Rest Encryption, OneDrive Support Coming Soon

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has provided some additional detail about OneDrive for Business data at rest encryption, and Microsoft says normal OneDrive users should be getting the same level of security soon.

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Microsoft Delays Windows Server vNext to 2016

Originally expected to ship alongside Windows 10 later in 2015, the next major Windows Server version has now been delayed by Microsoft until 2016.

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Microsoft Will Offer Businesses a Mixed Servicing Approach with Windows 10

At the Windows 10 media event earlier this month in Redmond, Microsoft revealed its “Windows as a service” concept as part of the announcement about free upgrades to Windows 10. But what about businesses?

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Copy, Move and Rename Files Using Windows PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Russell Smith shows us how to use Windows PowerShell to perform basic file management operations in Windows Server and Windows 8.

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