Learn how IT teams like yours must rethink their defenses for the new year, harden critical systems, and ensure rapid recovery when the unexpected strikes. Whether you're securing data, infrastructure ...

A new service called "Microsoft Endpoint Manager" brings together System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and the Microsoft Intune mobile management service. Announced Monday at Microsoft's Ignite ...

Although Hyper-V checkpoints are not a substitute for backups, they do have their place. For example, some people like to create virtual machine checkpoints prior to installing updates. That way, if ...

Microsoft has two free "feature packs" in the release candidate stage for Systems Management Server 2.0. "The idea behind the feature packs is just to provide ongoing value to existing customers, but ...

Whenever someone brings up using PowerShell to automate an Office product, often what you may think of initially ends up being along the lines of working with Excel instead of Word. And there is good ...

We've all been there: We're using code to automate something and send to a specific file, or attempting to relocate a file from one folder to another. We find the file and think it's available to open ...

Looking at the signature of a file quickly lets you know whether that file is really what it claims to be. Here's how to tap PowerShell to figure out the file ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

Most of the time when writing scripts, performing tasks in a synchronous manner is usually good enough. After all, it's working, right? Also, code in the script will usually have dependencies on other ...

When working with Active Directory groups, a common requirement is to enumerate all members of several different groups. This is done to typically figure out what kind of permissions each user in that ...

Traditional platforms have kept IT teams stuck in Legacy Mode — expensive, complex, and endlessly resource-draining. The Microsoft Cloud offers a better way forward… but only if you have the right ...

We depend on windows updates to ensure that our systems are keeping up with patches so they are secure. If you are in an enterprise environment, then you are probably using something like Windows ...