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Microsoft has announced its plans to roll out a new Advanced Management Suite in March 2023. The cloud-based Microsoft Intune Premium Suite is a cost-effective premium endpoint management plan, which will include Endpoint Privilege Management, Remote Help, Microsoft Tunnel for Mobile App Management as well as advanced endpoint analytics capabilities, with support for more features…

Microsoft released yesterday the February 2024 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10. As usual, the company addressed several vulnerabilities across a wide range of its products, including two zero-day flaws that are actively being exploited by attackers. In addition to the zero-day vulnerabilities, Microsoft advises administrators to patch critical flaws in the…

This is a part 2 of my MCSE and System Administrator job interview sample questions. See previous part at: Part 1 – Networking This article set is targeted at both the interviewer (who needs a pool of valid questions they can ask) and to the candidate (who wants a pool of sample questions they can…

Learn how to easily configuring constrained PowerShell Remoting endpoints using the PowerShell Just Enough Administration Toolkit.

One of the biggest nags for an IT administrator facing the need to format and reinstall a Windows-based operating system is the need to recover that system’s Product ID (or CD-Key). Normally you’d find the Product ID for the installed Windows OS either on the computer’s sticker (found on the bottom of a laptop, or…

In today’s shifting IT world  many organizations has servers hosting applications for both internal and customer-facing applications. These servers are managed and accessed by multiple staff members and in some cases, accessible by external vendor contractors as well. While a lot of money was invested in protecting these servers from malicious users and other types…

Need help automating mundane IT tasks, but don’t have the budget for commercial software? Take a look at this list of free automation tools!

While there are plenty of 3rd-party tools that allow you to find the exact uptime of your system, there are also several tools that are either built-in to Windows Server 2008, or can be used quite easily. This article walks through seven such methods for finding your server’s uptime.

Russell demonstrates how to deploy Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2 using PowerShell.

Windows Vista SP1 is now RTM, and will be shortly available for download for all Vista users. You can read more about it on my Changes in Vista Service Pack 1 article and my Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is RTM article. SP1 is made of a large number of individual files and components, resulting…