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What You Need to Know About PowerShell 7

PowerShell 7 (PS7) is based on .NET Core 3.0 and Microsoft is aiming to provide much greater compatibility with Windows PowerShell modules, as much as 90 percent.

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DR Fail Over of Azure App Services Using Automation

In this post, I will explain how you can implement disaster recovery failover for an application that has been built on Azure’s App Services and Azure SQL. Business Continuity One of the great things about Azure is how easy it can be to solve some of the old business & technology challenges, especially if you…

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VMworld 2018 Executive Wrap-up: WorkSpace One, vSphere, Cloud Management

WorkSpace One, vSphere, Cloud Management are the hot buzzwords leaving VMworld and Mike breaks down the latest on these products following the conference in Las Vegas.

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VMworld 2018 Day 2 – Digital Transformation Stories and a Guest Appearance by Malala Yousafzai

he VMworld 2018 Day 2 keynote took a different turn than the previous day but was still packed with updates and announcements.

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VMworld 2018 Day 1 Keynote – VMware Bridges the Hybrid Cloud and Multi Cloud Management

VMWorld is happening this week and if you missed the action from day one, here’s a brief summary of everything that was announced.

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Automatic Shutdown Settings in Azure VMs

Let’s discuss the Auto-Shutdown settings in the properties of an Azure virtual machine, how to configure them, and whether you should use this feature or not.

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Managing Windows Software Using Chocolatey

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to get started with the Chocolatey package manager for Windows.

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Deploy Active Directory and Certificate Services in Azure Using Infrastructure-as-Code — Part 1

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

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Automatically Resize an Azure VM

In this “how to” post, Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure Automation to scale up (increase) or scale down (decrease) the size of an Azure virtual machine.

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Why the PowerShell Module for Teams is Critically Flawed

Microsoft has released a beta version of the Teams PowerShell module. The only problem is that the module is not very good. In fact, the module is very disappointing because it does not contain the cmdlets that an Office 365 administrator might except to automate operations around Teams. Maybe the 1.0 release will be better. We can only hope!

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