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Good Guy Goes Bad

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

SharePoint 2010 Pop Quiz: Creating and Maintaining Governance

Applies to the "Developing Business Logic" objective of Exam 70-573.

Process Buried Treaure

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

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.

SharePoint 2010 Pop Quiz: Configuring Site Workflow

Applies to the "Developing Business Logic" objective of Exam 70-573.

Happy Birthday, Trustworthy Computing

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

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

PowerShell 3 makes some much-needed improvements to the Get-ChildItem cmdlet.

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.

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.

New Microsoft Exploit Category Makes Its Way into Patch Tuesday

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

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.

Can I Get a Little PowerShell Help?

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

SharePoint 2010: Configuring List Settings

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

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.

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.

Windows Update Troubles, Or What to Do When the Mother of All Patches Fails

Windows Update didn't update my Windows servers like it's supposed to, so here's the process I went through to get my servers back up to speed.

PowerShell 2 and 3, Side by Side

Here's something nifty: you don't have uninstall PowerShell 2 to use version 3.

Is Microsoft Leading a Data Revolution?

Microsoft may become the big data provider, especially if the government's data sources lose funding.

Microsoft Makes Naughty List With 13 Bulletins for December

Plus: Fictionalizing the zero-day attack; Be careful what you type when shopping.

PowerShell 3 Goes With The Flow

PowerShell 3 adds new console redirection operators for streaming pipeline output.

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