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Aidan Finn serves up a wish list of the top features and improvements he’d like to see in the next version of Hyper-V.

Stuart Burns presents 10 useful VMware management tools to help manage and monitor your VMware infrastructure more effectively.

Russell Smith tells us about four great features found in the new ribbon UI in Windows 8 File Explorer.

Russell Smith shows us how to create a reserved Public Virtual IP address (VIP) in Microsoft Azure with his latest Ask an Admin post.

Daniel Petri provides some tools and techniques to test connectivity from a Windows PC to an Active Directory Domain Controller.

Daniel Petri shares three different ways to enable the helpful Telnet client for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 to meet your IT needs.

Russell Smith shares a helpful PowerShell script to provision domain controllers in Microsoft Azure.

Tire of the default Windows 8.1 lock screen image? This tutorial shows you how to change the lock screen image and enable image slideshows.

Need help with DNS forwarding? Daniel Petri points out some issues with how DNS forwarding is handled in Windows Server 2008/2012 that you should be aware of.

Considering the purchase of blade servers for your IT department? Aidan Finn argues that blade servers are the wrong choice for today’s data center.

Russell Smith shows how to whip up code logic to stop Azure virtual machines in parallel with PowerShell.

Long live TechEd! Microsoft has just announced that it is replacing the TechED conference with a new “Microsoft unified technology event for enterprises.”