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Redmond Tweaks Autorun

Microsoft moves to make worms less effective. Plus: RSA kicks off security conference season; Google to school IT pros on the perils of cross-site scripting; and the FBI weighs in on Conficker.

More Fun with Aliases

PowerShell's New-Alias cmdlet makes quick work of running commands. Create new ones and share among your team.

Distribution List Recipients Not Receiving Messages

Individual users in one distribution list can't receive messages from outside vendors who e-mail that list. How can I fix this?

Wide Load

Get a better view of the data you've asked PowerShell to fetch with the Format-Wide cmdlet.

UAC Under Control

UAC not so snarky in Windows 7. Plus, .NET exploit; Internet dangers; hiring hackers.

Always On Our Minds

Yes, Conficker manages to remain in minds of IT security. Plus: tweeting birds get the worm and why security standards equal a bad idea.

Label Me Perfect

The power of properties allow you to use it as a, well, a PowerShell labelmaker.

Conficker's Evil Twin

Plus: An un-'Stirling' roll-out; PCI Compliance is better than no compliance; more.

Perfect Properties

PowerShell custom properties go beyond the call of duty by providing information as you need it.

Super ScriptBlocks

Brace yourself! That's your way of telling PowerShell to execute whatever code is encased in the curly braces.

High Availability (Exam 70-652)

High Availability and Exam 70-652: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring

Crash! Boom! Bang! Exploit!

The Windows Debugger plug-in explains all. Plus: IE 8 and Safari get taken down a notch; Conficker might be an April Fool's joke; Paladin rolls to the rescue.

Provider Peek

PSDrives work like real drives, only different. Here's how to work with these PSProviders in PowerShell.

Surfing Pipeline

Let's put what you've learned so far into practice using PowerShell's pipeline with objects.

Windows 2008 Virtualization (Exam 70-649)

Physical to virtual migration

Fool Us Once, Conficker....

Plus, Microsoft in a patching spat; PCI makes new rules; Facebook tricks.

Windows Server Adrift

Reader needs to know why his server's Application Log is awash in Event ID 1054 errors.

Didn't We See Conficker Before?

Plus, eBay bites its users; Safari's hacker gets brazen.

Functions That Act Like Cmdlets

The third part in a series on writing simple functions to work in PowerShell.

Windows 2008 Hyper-V (Exam 70-649)

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