Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part II)
Summary: Yesterday, we met a newly graduated IT professional, Rey Skyworker, as she discussed the ways of "The Farce." It was during this discussion that her instructor, Ben Kerberosie, discovered she had a natural gift in understanding how to implement ... continue reading
Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part I)
Summary: Seven years ago, “Hey, Scripting Guy!” was approached by a member of the community to see if we would be interested in doing something a little fun for the holidays. The result was a seven-part series called “A PowerShell ... continue reading
Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) – Certificate Warnings
Hello everyone! Tim Beasley, Platforms PFE here again from the gorgeous state of Missouri. Here in the fall, in the Ozark Mountains area the colors of the trees are just amazing! But hey, I’m sure wherever you are it’s nice ... continue reading
Building SQL REST API back-end for Angular apps
JSON support in SQL Server/Azure SQL is designed to make integration between the relational database models and the modern single-page JavaScript apps easier than ever. SQL Server/Azure SQL enables you to easily format results of SQL queries as JSON text ... continue reading
Using the OpenSSH Beta in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709
I’m thrilled to share that a Beta OpenSSH client and server daemon are available as a Feature-on-Demand in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709. Since our last update blog, we’ve been working hard on a Win32 port ... continue reading
PowerShell support for certificate credentials
Summary: It's not a very well-known feature, but the PSCredential object, and the PowerShell Get-Credential cmdlet, both support certificate credentials (including PIN-protected certificates). In this post, we take a look at how a certificate credential is marshaled inside a PSCredential ... continue reading
WNV Deep Dive Part 4 – Looking at LBFO and Hyper-V traffic
By James Kehr, Networking Support Escalation Engineer We’re going to look at the two other basic types of WNV traffic in part 4: LBFO (NIC teaming) and Hyper-V. I’ll be skipping over Hyper-V Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networks. The ... continue reading
WNV Deep Dive Part 2 – How WNV works
By James Kehr, Networking Support Escalation Engineer To understand Windows Network Virtualization (WNV) capture data you first need to understand what you’re looking at. Which is hard when you may not understand what goes on inside of Windows. This article ... continue reading
Designing, building, and operating #Microservices on #Azure with #Kubernetes Guide
In this set of articles, Microsoft explores how to build and run a Microservices Architecture on Azure, using Kubernetes as a container orchestrator. Topics include: Using Domain Driven Design (DDD) to design a microservices architecture. Choosing the right Azure technologies ... continue reading
What’s new in SSMS 17.4: SQL Vulnerability Assessment
This post is authored by Ronit Reger, Senior Program Manager, SQL Data Security and Alan Yu, Program Manager, SQL Server We are excited to announce the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 17.4! Download SSMS 17.4 and review the ... continue reading
