If you manage just a few user accounts, you could get by with AD Users and Computers or the AD Administrative Center. But if you're in a large organization, you can use PowerShell to automate the identity management process.
- By Adam Bertram
- 01/17/2019
Key Microsoft products, including Windows 7, are due to lose support next year.
A new "Reserved Storage" feature in the next major Windows 10 release will allocate about 7GB of a PC's storage space for OS updates.
Several reports are pointing the finger at Microsoft's most recent "update Tuesday" security patches for multiple Windows 7 problems.
Organizations using the Office 365 ProPlus productivity suite can now access a new preview of Microsoft's Office Client Policy Service.
Microsoft released a relatively light batch of security fixes for January's "update Tuesday," though they affect everything from Windows to Microsoft's browsers to the .NET Framework.
IT pros should prepare for some notable changes coming to Office 365 business subscribers this year, including 64-bit Office installs by default, an end to Triple Data Encryption (3DES) and default Microsoft Teams installs in some cases.
Microsoft this month enabled the ability to use session ID information in Exchange Online audit logs, giving IT pros another tool to better detect attacks.
Microsoft this week announced a pair of security and compliance offerings under the "Microsoft 365" branding that will become available next month.
A new resource for IT pros trying to find and troubleshoot problems on Microsoft Surface devices is now available.
The OpenSSH solution used for remote management is now a supported "Features on Demand" addition in both Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019.
Microsoft's December patch rollout, issued this week, comprised an estimated 39 security fixes, plus one security advisory.
WDS can be set up via the traditional GUI, but what if you're in an enterprise and have a lot of WDS servers to set up? In that case, PowerShell is a great way to automate the process.
- By Adam Bertram
- 12/13/2018
Microsoft periodically issues Windows update releases that don't follow its standard release schedules at all.
Microsoft is giving organizations a new way to try out early releases of its Microsoft 365 suite.
When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.
- By Adam Bertram
- 12/10/2018
Microsoft's Edge browser is going the way of Google's Chrome, the company announced this week.
Microsoft and Docker this week launched a new specification called Cloud Native Application Bundles to address the needs of organizations that build and maintain distributed applications.
Intel has started introducing "Windows Modern Drivers" for its processors on Windows 10 version 1809-based machines, the chip maker announced in late November.
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