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• FBI: Security Can't Keep Up With New Tech

  Plus: Symantec's pcAnywhere troubles, Google's hated privacy policy. 02/01/2012

• Slice and Dice with Hash Tables in PowerShell

  The Group-Object cmdlet can offer up lots of information if you extract that info through hash tables. Here's how. 01/31/2012

• SharePoint 2010 Pop Quiz: Customizing Lists and Libraries in SharePoint 2010

  Applies to the "Developing Business Logic" objective of Exam 70-573. 01/30/2012

• DBAs Can Get a University Education -- for Free

  MIT, Stanford and other institutions of higher learning offer basic computer science courses that cost nothing but time. 01/26/2012

• SharePoint 2010 Pop Quiz: Creating and Maintaining Governance

  Applies to the "Developing Business Logic" objective of Exam 70-573. 01/25/2012

• Good Guy Goes Bad

  Plus: Anonymous responds to Megauploads raid, Google saw what you did online last night. 01/25/2012

• Process Buried Treaure

  PowerShell can dig up information on processes pretty easily. It's all in the FileVersion property. 01/24/2012

• First Look: Deploying Private Clouds With System Center 2012

  A hands-on look at using App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager for private cloud deployments. 01/24/2012

• Entity Framework 4.3 Gets Final Tune-Up--Enum Support Promised in 5.0

  Microsoft last week shipped the Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1, with some NuGet integration enhancements and bug fixes. 01/19/2012

• SharePoint 2010 Pop Quiz: Configuring Site Workflow

  Applies to the "Developing Business Logic" objective of Exam 70-573. 01/19/2012

• Happy Birthday, Trustworthy Computing

  Plus: Trojan worm attacking DoD smart cards, Internet censorship protests hit the Web. 01/18/2012

• To DIR, with Love; Or, How PowerShell 3 Will Improve Get-ChildItem

  PowerShell 3 makes some much-needed improvements to the Get-ChildItem cmdlet. 01/17/2012

• Put Hyper-V into Hyper-Drive

  In this first of a series on Hyper-V, Paul looks at squeezing the best performance out of the hypervisor through the right mix of processing power both virtual and physical. 01/12/2012

• Database Jobs Provide Security, Survey Says

  A recent salary survey indicates that database-related jobs provide good job security, and don’t rank too badly on the salary side of things, either. 01/12/2012

• New Microsoft Exploit Category Makes Its Way into Patch Tuesday

  Plus: Symantec sued for scaring up business, Stuxnet siblings ready to be unleashed. 01/11/2012

• SharePoint 2010 Pop Quiz: Configuring a Web Part for Windows Live Messenger

  Applies to the "Developing Web Parts and Controls" objective of Exam 70-573. 01/10/2012

• Can I Get a Little PowerShell Help?

  When looking for cmdlet help, PowerShell 3 goes beyond version 2 with an Update-Help cmdlet. 01/09/2012

• Enum's the Limit

  Let's start off 2012 with a tip I learned just recently: Using the PowerShell $FormatEnumerationLimit variable to customize the number of entries viewable via the Dir command. 01/05/2012

• SharePoint 2010: Configuring List Settings

  Applies to the "Developing Web Parts and Controls" objective of Exam 70-573. 01/05/2012

• Oracle Firms Up Entity Framework Support

  It's a brand-new database world. Witness Oracle's release of a data provider that allows Oracle coders to work in .NET. 01/05/2012