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This is the third and final post in a three-part series. Part 1: Useful methods on the String class Introduction to Regular Expressions The Select-String cmdlet Part 2: the -split operator the -match operator the switch statement the Regex class Part 3: a real world, complete and slightly...

We’re introducing several minor changes to the tagging format of Windows containers. These changes will begin taking take effect next Patch Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Build Number Tags We’re re-introducing a build tag across all Windows base images. This will complement the existing...

This is the second post in a three-part series. Part 1: Useful methods on the String class Introduction to Regular Expressions The Select-String cmdlet Part 2: the -split operator the -match operator the switch statement the Regex class Part 3: a real world, complete and slightly bigger...

Since launching Intune for Education back in 2017, we have seen some amazing momentum in its adoption. Along the way, our engineering teams have continued to do some great work to simplify device management for schools. We spend a lot of time speaking directly with school IT departments...

The PowerShell-Docs repositories have been moved from the PowerShell organization to the MicrosoftDocs organization in GitHub. The tools we use to build the documentation are designed to work in the MicrosoftDocs org. Moving the repository lets us build the foundation for future improvements in...

Preview builds of the PowerShell extension are now available in VSCode We are excited to announce the PowerShell Preview extension in the VSCode marketplace! The PowerShell Preview extension allows users on Windows PowerShell 5.1, Powershell 6.0, and all newer versions to get and test the...

Hi there! Stanislav Belov here, and you are reading the next issue of the Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News series! As a reminder, the Noteworthy News series covers various areas, to include interesting news, announcements, links, tips and tricks from Windows, Azure, and Security...

This is the first post in a three part series. Part 1: Useful methods on the String class Introduction to Regular Expressions The Select-String cmdlet Part 2: The -split operator The -match operator The switch statement The Regex class Part 3: A real world, complete and slightly bigger...

Over the years, we have been asked about what some of the Failover Cluster resources/resource types are and what they do. There are several resources that have been asked about on multiple occasions and we haven’t really had a good definition to point you to. Well, not anymore. What I want to...

Hello everyone, I’m Preston K. Parsard, specializing in Platforms, Azure Infrastructure and Automation topics, and I’d like to share some insights for securing PowerShell credentials using certificates. This post is based on a recent customer project, but we’ll also wrap a story around it on...

Windows Security change affecting PowerShell January 9, 2019 The recent (1/8/2019) Windows security patch CVE-2019-0543, has introduced a breaking change for a PowerShell remoting scenario. It is a narrowly scoped scenario that should have low impact for most users. The breaking change only...

The existing alert closure experience for the alerts generated by monitors has been revamped to be more meaningful and provide better value. If the alert was generated by a monitor, as a best practice, you should allow the monitor to auto-resolve the alert when the health state returns to...

We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 14 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 41 pull requests have been merged and 54 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: ActiveDirectoryCSDsc...

As Cloud Security is becoming an increasingly greater concern for organizations of all sizes, the role and importance of Security Operations Centers (SOC) continues to expand. While end users leverage new cloud apps and services daily, Security professionals that keep track of security incidents...

On January 16, 2019 at 5:00PM PDT, the PowerShell-Docs repositories are moving from the PowerShell organization to the MicrosoftDocs organization in GitHub. The tools we use to build the documentation are designed to work in the MicrosoftDocs org. Moving the repository lets us build the...

Reserving disk space to keep Windows 10 up to date Windows Insiders: To enable this new feature now, please see the last section “Testing out Storage Reserve” and complete the quest Starting with the next major update we’re making a few changes to how Windows 10 manages disk space. Through...

Hi there! Stanislav Belov here to bring you the next issue of the Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News series! As a reminder, the Noteworthy News series covers various areas, to include interesting news, announcements, links, tips and tricks from Windows, Azure, and Security worlds on a...

Hello! My name is Todd Linke, and I am a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft where I specialize in System Center Configuration Manager. I was working with some customers who were seeing strange behavior on their SCCM Site Servers. In one case, an unusually high percentage of clients had corrupt...

When Windows update ‘KB4467684’, ‘KB4478877’, ‘KB4471321’ or ‘KB4483229’ is installed on a VMM managed Windows Server 2016 host, VMM is not able to enumerate or manage the Logical Switch deployed on the host. Customers will notice the following symptoms when they open the ‘Virtual Switches’...

Hello everyone, Ty McPherson here, along with some fellow engineers Andreas Pacius and Edwin Gaitan, and we wanted to put together and share some information to help you setup Remote Server Administration Tools with Windows 10 1809. Starting with Windows 10 v1809 the Remote Server...