It's not always the best idea to create Active Directory users from scratch. Your company likely has a standard "template" of attributes that are set for every domain user. So why are you still creating each one by hand?
- By Adam Bertram
- 12/03/2018
Microsoft this week said it is bringing its new "account manager" multiple sign-in capability to various online services sometime next year.
Microsoft this week announced that a new Windows 10 capability that obviates the need for passwords is now ready.
Microsoft last week released the Windows Compatibility Module 1.0.0 for PowerShell Core 6, allowing PowerShell Core 6 users to access modules that Microsoft hasn't yet added natively to the PowerShell Core product.
Setting up a place to store files in the cloud isn't quite as easy as doing it on-prem. That's where Microsoft's Azure Files service comes in.
- By Adam Bertram
- 11/15/2018
Two of Microsoft's Windows patch delivery services are no more.
When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a PaaS that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server deployment up and running.
- By Adam Bertram
- 11/06/2018
Microsoft this month enabled organizations to assign Azure Active Directory licenses according to group.
Disk2Vhd is a little Microsoft utility that does one thing and one thing well: convert physical computers to virtual disks.
- By Adam Bertram
- 10/25/2018
Microsoft recently described its efforts around the Component Firmware Update (CFU) protocol, which is an open source project housed at the GitHub repository.
A new Azure Active Directory Connect Health feature lets IT pros resolve duplicate attribute sync errors.
For the longest time, the open source community had a concept called "public package repositories." Microsoft never had the same -- until the PowerShell Gallery.
- By Adam Bertram
- 10/11/2018
Azure Automation can be an excellent PowerShell script orchestration tool, though it has just a limited number of PowerShell modules. Luckily, we can upload our own modules, too.
- By Adam Bertram
- 09/27/2018
To avoid issues that have affected some Windows 7 users, Microsoft will start releasing Windows servicing stack updates (SSUs) as part of its monthly update rollups starting next month.
Lambda, the serverless computing platform from Amazon Web Services (AWS), now supports Microsoft PowerShell Core 6.0, the cloud giant announced this month.