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    Free e-book – Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition     This free Microsoft Press e-book covers the Azure fundamentals you need to start developing solutions right away. Discover the Azure features you’re most likely to need. Download the e-book.   Rating 3.00 out of 5

Back in July, the web was afloat of rumors that Microsoft might be open sourcing PowerShell. Now a little over a month later, those rumors have been confirmed, and PowerShell has officially appeared on GitHub for Windows, Linux and MacOS. http://www.winbeta.org/news/now-open-source-cross-platform-powershell-appears-github-windows-linux-osx Rating 4.00 out of 5

It seems I have been having a generally bad attitude about Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 TP5 lately (especially the Start Menu) so I sat down and thought for a while… what do I really like about Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 TP5. There has to be something that sticks out to me because it […]

Every year I have to submit my "accomplishments" from the prior year to see if I still "rate" as a Microsoft MVP. This is the first year since becoming an MVP in 2001[1] that I have been pinged to be more specific about what makes me valuable enough to be an MVP. I think that […]

It is with great sadness that I share with the joeware community that Mike Kline passed away on February 24th. Mike was a great guy. He worked for Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer, was a DS MVP like myself for years prior to working for Microsoft, a very strong proponent and long time evangelist […]

Absolutely awesome article. http://danluu.com/wat/ As far as I can tell, what happens at these companies is that they started by concentrating almost totally on product growth. That’s completely and totally reasonable, because companies are worth approximately zero when they’re founded; they don’t bother with things that protect them from losses, like good ops practices or […]

To activate the adware killer feature in Windows Defender an entry in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\ Windows Defender\MpEngine with a DWORD named “MpEnablePus” with the value “1”. Rating 4.00 out of 5

  I tricked Microsoft again… I have been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for Windows Server Directory Services for 2015. Every year starting in and since 2001 now. Doesn’t much matter at work though. I still have people who have never even logged into a production Domain Controller who feel their opinion has the same […]

This is very cool stuff. Out hiking and need water but afraid to drink from local sources? Get the lifestraw water bottle and fill it and drink with confidence. Going to a country where you aren’t sure about the water supply (hello my friends going on vacations to exotic places or traveling to those low […]

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