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On-Premises Deployment of Azure Log Analytics (OMS)

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy an Azure Logs Analytics, otherwise known as Operations Management Suite (OMS), agent to a Windows Server machine that is running outside of Azure.

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Windows Admin Center — The Future of the Windows Server GUI

In this post, I’ll look at why Windows Admin Center is the new GUI management tool of choice for Windows Server.

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Is PowerShell the Future of Windows Server Management?

Are you giving PowerShell a fair shake? Read about PowerShell features that could help you with Windows Server management strategy.

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Microsoft Continues Cloud Push, Announces Windows Server 2016, SQL Server 2016, and Windows Update for Business

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off the first-ever Microsoft Ignite conference by saying that Microsoft has transformed itself to fulfill its “cloud-first, mobile-first” mission.

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Create a GitHub Repository

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to create a repo in GitHub that you can use with Azure DevTest Labs. As we move more towards using declarative configuration technologies like Azure Resource Manager (ARM), PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), and in the not too distant future Azure Stack for Windows Server 2016,…

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PowerShell Summit North America 2015 Is Under Way

The PowerShell Summit North America 2015 is under way, and Jeff Hicks gives us a rundown of the announcements made by Microsoft at the event.

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Infrastructure-as-Code Part 3: Deploy Active Directory and Certificate Services in Azure

In the final part of this series, Russell Smith shows you how to use the code I created in the previous two installments to provision the resources in Azure.

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Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4

Russell Smith dives into the Windows 2016 Technical Preview 4 release.

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Filtering PowerShell with the Where Method

Last Update: Oct 10, 2022

PowerShell guru Jeff Hicks shows how to use the Where() method to do similar filtering tasks that you might use Where-Object for. In some cases, the Where() method does more.

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Planning for Windows Server 2016

IT veteran Jeff Hicks shares his thoughts on getting the most from Windows Server 2016, what you might want to consider and the future of IT administration.

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