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Adobe Reader Flaw Hits Windows

Plus: Mobile attacks still in a learning curve, Facebook hole exposes private photos of members.

Start-Process Cmdlet: The Best of Both Worlds

Sometimes the standby command-line or resource kit tools work best. Still, there is a way to use information from those tools with further processing in PowerShell and this command helps.

Microsoft Previews SQL Server Driver for Linux

Some 13 years later, Microsoft has released the first preview of an ODBC driver for Linux.

Microsoft Wants You for Security Essentials Beta

Plus: One dumb hacker tries to blackmail his way into a job; FBI cracks down on counterfeit merchandise online.

Microsoft on Hadoop, Openness: Yes, We're Serious

Hadoop support at Microsoft is deep enough to have them abandoning LINC to HPC.

Alternate Alternate Credentials

Go GUI-less and avoid the Get-Credential cmdlet's dialog with this helpful script for supplying alternative credentials.

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Developers Offered Pay-For-Use Database Cloud Service

Thanks to the cloud, SQL Server development is about to get cheaper.

Constant Companion

There's power in defining constants, even in PowerShell. Check out this week's tip.

One-of-a-Kind PowerShell Cmdlets

PowerShell can help you retrieve collections of objects or services, or just a unique subset of information. Let's look at a few cmdlets that can help you narrow your focus.

7 Windows 7 Tips

Seven quick and totally random but useful tips that might save you some work as you migrate over to the current OS.

Developers Can Test 'Denali' in Amazon Cloud

Hey, SQL Server developers! You can get onto Amazon's cloud.

Start Me Up: Scripting a Logon with PowerShell

I advise against it. But if you must use a logon script to authenticate, here's how to get it done with PowerShell.

Hiccups in Entity Framework/.NET Framework Separation

The ties that bind are not so easily severed, especially between the teams who are developing these two platforms.

Pick Up the Pieces with the Split, Join Operators

PowerShell's object nature is fine most of the time, but sometimes we need to dig deep and use the Split and Join operators to break apart strings and put them back together again.

Surprise! Google, Apple Play Catch-Up to Microsoft (for a change)

Microsoft isn't always the slow-moving dinosaur, but the visionary. Witness its work with SQL Azure beating Google and Apple to data-laden cloud.

Touch Me, Baby (with Set-ItemProperty, of course)

Here's a way to get beyond the usual looking into file properties and time stamps and start changing them.

Government's Crosshairs On Cybersecurity for October

Celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month with these guidelines presented by the U.S. government. Plus: Google and Microsoft fling malware accusations; Redmond hogging credit for latest botnet take down?

PowerShell vNext is vBest

Three good reasons to like the next version of PowerShell.

Reaching Your Breaking Point with PowerShell

Debug the longer PowerShell scripts by inserting breakpoints -- and some choice PowerShell cmdlets -- that will help you see how scripts are processing information along the way.

Windows Server 8 Ups Data Transfer Ante

Imagine data transfers at 2GB per second. Simple, right? Now, imagine that transfer happening in a virtualized environment that leverages SMB 2.2 multichannel and RDMA. Yeah, we thought that'd make you smile.

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