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PowerShell isn’t just a command-line tool for system administrators. Even savvy Windows 10 users can take advantage of the capabilities built-in. There are many cmdlets that expose advanced functionality built within...

If you were able to jump into a time machine and go back to December of 2018, Microsoft was working on a version of Windows 10 that I referred to as ‘Lite’. The idea, at that time, was that the company was planning...

If you have never had to recover a file in Windows, you are in the minority. At some point in time, many of us have accidentally deleted a file on either a drive or removable storage like an SD card or USB stick. While...

We knew it was coming, eventually, and it’s official today. Microsoft is going to start bundling its new Edge browser with the next version of Windows that will arrive this fall. While most IT Pros already know by...

From time to time, Microsoft makes changes to the structure of its Insider program. The company recently announced a new leader of the team and today, they are changing up the “Rings” that have been a staple of the...

Microsoft recently announced at Build 2020 that it is working on a native open-source package manager for Windows. Due to hit general availability in May 2021, Windows Package Manager is now accessible on GitHub and...

If you read the headline and thought that this was some sort of an elaborate joke, this is not a drill. After years of developers asking Microsoft to build a package manager into Windows, those requests are finally...

The advent of containers within the computing world opened up a whole new environment for testing, constrained environments, and on-demand compute scaling. First introduced on Linux systems, demand for this same...

The Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command-line tool and associated Powershell module are powerful tools to manipulate Windows image .wim files, virtual hard disks .vhd files, and control of Windows...

After Microsoft announced that Panos Panay would be taking over Windows and its future, we knew that changes would be coming and now they are starting to materialize. We have already seen a new leader appointed to the...

This month’s Patch Tuesday is the first after Covid-19 forced significantly more of us to work from home. And hackers are taking advantage of the global health crisis by targeting users and companies in creative...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system has passed a significant milestone, the OS is running on more than 1 billion PCs around the globe. This is a considerable benchmark for the company and shows that customers are...

In January, Microsoft’s new Edge browser hit general availability. Microsoft is rolling it out slowly to Windows 10 users via Windows Update. And enterprises can download an offline deployment package for use with...

This month is a big one for sysadmins patching Microsoft products. So let’s get started. Windows and Windows Server Last month, Microsoft published a security advisory for Internet Explorer (IE) outlining a remote...

This week, Microsoft is hosting a virtual developer conference where the company is talking in more detail about Windows 10X, foldable devices, and how it plans to support these new products. A key push for this event...