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A growing failure in the market for video game consoles it once dominated, Nintendo will finally turn its attention to mobile devices. The video game firm announced Tuesday morning that it is partnering with Tokyo-based DeNA to jointly develop games for smart phones and other devices. “Both companies will develop and operate new game apps…

Jeff Hicks shows us how to query the DSC compliance server with PowerShell 4.0 in this quick tutorial.

This article explains how you can create a Recovery Plan (RP) for managing and orchestrating the failover of Hyper-V virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft announced a variety of business software and service offerings during a Monday morning keynote at the Convergence 2015 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Pledging to transform business by putting data to work, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hailed the software giant’s efforts as a “culture of empowerment.” “Businesses are hungry to seize new opportunities using technologies…

Join us as we speak VDI with Citrix CTP and vExpert Mike Nelson (@nelmedia).  In this episode we will discuss Citrix XenDesktop as a virtualization platform.  If you haven’t considered VDI, learn what this technology can do for your organization and what you should be thinking about.  Learn what customers feel about Citrix as a VDI solution.  We…

Jeff Hicks shows us how to add trace information to a PowerShell ping tool in his latest article.

Because sometimes it’s better to be right than to be loved, this week’s other news includes a reported Microsoft plan to bring Cortana to (gasp!) Android and iOS, an MSN move into the Windows group, Xbox One still doesn’t beat PS4 despite record sales, IDC cuts PC sales forecast for 2015, how that change will…

Russell Smith shows us how to configure distributed file system replication in Windows Server 2012 R2 in this step-by-step tutorial.

Russell Smith shows us a simple way to enable notifications to open firewall ports in Windows Server 2012 R2 in this step-by-step tutorial.

It’s been an interesting week, with both Apple and Google launching expensive, high-end PCs built around the new USB Type C (USB-C) standard, which delivers power, data and display over a single connector. The only question now is how long it will take Microsoft and the Windows PC ecosystem to jump on the bandwagon. On…

Learn how to use PowerShell to find non-system service accounts in this primer by Petri Contributing Editor Jeff Hicks.

Learn how to create a Distributed File System Namespace in Windows Server 2012 R2 in this tutorial by Russell Smith.