Savill's FAQs: Hyper-V Migrations and the Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today he provides information about Hyper-V migrations, how a Windows Server 2016 failover cluster works, and Azure Virtual Machine placement.
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Savill's FAQs: Exploring Azure Files Sync Features

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today he shares some tips about Azure Files Sync.
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Savill's FAQs: Azure Files Sync and Change Control for Group Policy

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today, you can learn more about change control for group policy, and about the Azure Files Sync functionality.
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Savill's FAQs: Microsoft Intune Licensing and Device Management

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today, he shares more more about purchasing per-device licenses for Microsoft Intune, registering devices with Intune that are not tied to specific users, and using a single Azure Backup vault to protect data from multiple subscriptions.
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Savill's FAQs: System Center Endpoint Protection Manual Install

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today, he shares more about removing a dead Domain Controller from Windows Server 2016, manually installing System Center Endpoint Protection on a device, and assigning limited scope administrator role in Azure Active Directory via the portal.
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Savill's FAQs: How Much Disk Space is Necessary for a Windows 10 Upgrade?

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today, he looks at disk space that is necessary for a Windows 10 upgrade, default accounts, and moving Domain Controllers out of Organizational Units.
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Savill's FAQs: Setting the $ Character in a PowerShell String

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today, he shares about mixing the use of managed and unmanaged disks in Virtual Machines, using Add-AzureRmAccount and Login-AzureRmAccount, and how to set $ in a PowerShell string.
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Savill's FAQs: How Much Disk Space is Necessary for a Windows 10 Upgrade?

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today, he looks at disk space that is necessary for a Windows 10 upgrade, default accounts, and moving Domain Controllers out of Organizational Units.
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Savill's FAQs: Using chkdsk and Networking Protocols in Azure

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today he covers using chkdsk and various networking protocols in Azure, plus why PowerShell's OpenBaseKey does not work on a Windows 7 device.
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Savill's FAQs: Managing and Using VMs in Azure

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today: Learn about some aspects of managing and using VMs in Azure.
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Savill's FAQs: Handy Microsoft Edge Keyboard Shortcuts

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today: Learn about performing LDAP writes to objects in Azure AD Domain Services; find Microsoft Edge keyboard shortcuts; and check on upcoming Azure maintenance from within a VM.
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Savill's FAQs: Using Microsoft Azure AD Domain Services

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today learn how to use Microsoft's Azure AD Domain Services for you organizations identity solution, whether you can add more domain controllers to those domain services, and how to use constrained delegation.
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Savill's FAQs: View Your Azure Resources Using PowerShell

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today: Learn how to reset Microsoft Edge so one of its services does not continue to use a significant amount of CPU resources; view all Azure resources that you can use with PowerShell; and obtain public IPs from Azure.
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Savill's FAQs: Execute a PowerShell script in Windows PE

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today learn about using your own images to create a VM using PowerShell, wiping a disk when using the Windows PE environment, and how to execute a PowerShell script in Windows PE.
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Savill's FAQs: Using and managing VHD files in Microsoft Azure

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today learn about handling VHD images in Microsoft's Azure cloud service with PowerShell.
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Savill's FAQs: PowerShell commands for replacing strings in files

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today, learning the difference between match and contains in commands, using single character wildcards, and searching and replacing strings in files with PowerShell.
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Savill's FAQs: Enabling Access to Help in PowerShell Sessions

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today, find out about configuring PowerShell sessions so the help subsystem is available, receiving alerts when your Azure B series CPU credits are below a certain level, and breaking out of loops in a PowerShell search.
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Savill's FAQs: Using PowerShell File Comparison Capability

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today: Learning about PowerShell file comparison capability; filtering search results containing certain strings; and using the pipeline in PowerShell commands.
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Savill's FAQs: Advanced Threat Analytics and Domain Controllers

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today: Learn about monitoring domain controllers in distributed environments like Azure using Advanced Threat Analytics and controlling their restarts after updates are applied.
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Savill's FAQs: Bulk changing passwords in Active Directory

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today: Learn about changing passwords in bulk for an Active Directory Organizational Unit; how to store arrays of objects in PowerShell long term; and expanding storage to Azure for future use.
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