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Russell Smith

IT consultant and author specializing in management and security technologies. Russell has more than 15 years of experience in IT, he has written a book on Windows security, and he coauthored a text for Microsoft’s Official Academic Course (MOAC) series.
Identity
April 16, 2024

Guide to Group Policy Management in Active Directory

Introduction to Group Policy Management Group Policy is a feature of Microsoft Windows operating systems that helps administrators manage and secure users and computers in Active Directory...
Identity
July 2, 2019

Getting Group Policy Object Precedence Right

Group Policy is the configuration management technology included in Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory. If you need to enable granular control of Windows and Windows Server settings, Group...
Identity
May 7, 2019

6 Group Policy Settings You Need to Get Right

Group Policy is a configuration management technology that is part of Windows Server Active Directory. It can be used to configure settings in Windows client and server operating systems to make sure...
Identity
April 11, 2019

Top 10 Group Policy PowerShell Commands

In addition to the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), Microsoft provides a set of Windows PowerShell cmdlets you can use to manage Group Policy. To use the Group Policy PowerShell cmdlets, you...
Data
December 25, 2018

PII Discovery Tools You’ll Want to Check Out

Data breaches are being reported in the news on an almost daily basis. And with new compliance regulations, like GDPR, being introduced on a regular basis, discovering and classifying data is...
Infrastructure
November 6, 2018

Using PowerShell to Create ZIP Archives and Unzip Files

Sometimes it can be useful to programmatically create zip archives or extract files from existing archives. Windows PowerShell 5.0 added two cmdlets for doing just that. The Compress-Archive cmdlet...
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