Plus: Iran attacked with possible politically driven malware, social network monitoring projected to increase.
The way to grasp all the complexity of PowerShell is to use it and take it one step at a time. At some point, a little PowerShell will go a long way in your IT career.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/29/2012
Plus: Former Microsoft CSO steps down from government position, 10 years of Trustworthy Computing
Applies to the "Configuring Access to Resources" objective of Exam 70-680 TS: Windows 7 Configuration.
In-memory database comes from Starcounter, a Swedish company that announced the world's "fastest consistent database" thanks to patent-pending technology.
PowerShell 3.0 sports a cool new feature, the Show-Command cmdlet, which provides a graphical way of looking at all cmdlets and functions at your disposal. Here's a graphic look at it.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/21/2012
Microsoft released demos of both to get them in front of developers; already there's a wishlist of features from developers. Here's some of my initial thoughts and experiments with them.
Applies to the "Configuring Hardware and Applications" objective of Exam 70-680 TS: Windows 7 Configuration.
Plus: Adobe changes mind about not patching older software, The Pirate Bay doesn't condone Anonymous actions.
PowerShell's tab completion feature saves lots of typing. In version 3, this features gets even better.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/15/2012
Applies to the "Deploying Windows 7" objective of Exam 70-680 TS: Windows 7 Configuration.
Plus: PHP script error gets a security update for faulty security update, 10 security mistakes you're still making.
LocalDB is making life easier for database developers working in the Visual Studio 11 IDE.
This week's tips will have you peeking into data in arrays and hash tables in no time flat.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/08/2012
Applies to the "Installing, Upgrading, and Migrating to Windows 7" objective of Exam 70-680 TS: Windows 7 Configuration.
Plus: Best practices for employee online monitoring, Playstation hacker visits Sony.
Baby-stepping into new PowerShell territory.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/01/2012
My current system was downed by eval software, so it's high time I build a dev machine for testing out new stuff.
Applies to the "Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services" objective of Exam 70-640 TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration.
Plus: U.S. drops to second on "dirty dozen" of spam list, is privacy a thing of the past?