Collaborate Disseminate
Apart from the amusing name, POSH-GIT is a PowerShell module for GitHub supplied as part of Git for Windows. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to use Git source control via this PowerShell module.
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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll compare Azure Operational Insights (OpInsights) with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), and discover whether OpInsights replaces SCOM.
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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at some of the benefits of converting Win32 desktop apps to run in a UWP wrapper that can be distributed via the Windows Store in Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
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Russell walks through the steps to add a language pack to a Windows 10 machine. As part of the process, a user should temporarily become a member of the local Administrators group.
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Always Encrypted is a feature of SQL Server 2016 that Microsoft released in Azure SQL Database in June 2016. Russell describes what Always Encrypted technology is and how it works with Azure SQL Database.
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Russell demonstrates how to use PowerShell to quickly create a self-signed certificate, which are handy to use in test scenarios where a certificate is a requirement.
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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at why you might need to back up data stored in the cloud and two options for backing up Office 365.
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Learn how to change which users can have their account credentials cached on read-only domain controllers (RODC).
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This handy Office tip demonstrates two techniques to export images from a Word document.
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Russell shows how to create your first Azure SQL Database, configure a firewall and connect to the database using Visual Studio.
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