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Enjoy this humorous take on a Microsoft Surface tablet unboxing, complete with fake Russian accent, an assault rifle cartridge, a “metrosexual” interface, and lots of simulated blue screens.

You have the shiny new Windows release installed — now what? Jeff Hicks shows you the first five steps to take with Windows 8.

The advent of iOS 6 brought about tons of new features, but IT admins might find it a challenge to update their company’s devices. John O’Neill, Sr., shows you just how to upgrade single or multiple iOS using Apple Configurator.

Get ready, get SetSPN… GO! Michael Simmons shows you how to how to specify a user or computer account to be identified with an SPN by using the SetSPN utility.

John O’Neill, Sr., shows you how to change the product key in Windows 8 using the GUI AND the command line. How’s that for value?

We’re back to backups! Jeff Hicks shows how to export Hyper-V virtual machines using PowerShell and Hyper-V Manager.

You’ve installed MDT 2012 Update 1 — now what? Michael Simmons walks you through adding and configuring application installations with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2102 Update 1.

Do you know what a root bridge is? Sean Wilkins shares some Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) path selection know-how.

Learn how to set up an internal CentOS web server to talk to a SQL server in this handy how-to article.

Kevin Costner steps in as Apple Lisa pitchman in this advertising classic from the early 1980s.

Does your Cisco VTP configuration need an SOS? Sean Wilkins tackles Cisco VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) troubleshooting issues.

We’re at the end of our instructive series on Hyper-V! For good measure, Jeff Hicks runs through the steps in managing Windows 8 Client Hyper-V with PowerShell.