Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and moving. Prior to joining CNET, Joe led MyMove's moving coverage and reported on broadband policy, the digital divide, and ...

BitLocker is a security feature that helps you encrypt your drives. Whether it is your hard drive, an external USB drive, or multiple hard drives, you can encrypt them with BitLocker. You can find ...

A note to corporations everywhere: Asking politely for the internet to stop making fun of you often has the opposite effect. Microsoft may have just learned that lesson the hard way, after it ...

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

A port is a logical access point used by networking protocols to distinguish different services on the same device. For example, HTTP uses port 80, HTTPS uses 443, and RDP uses 3389. Windows Firewall ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

A media server is a wonderful tool for streaming your personal media collection on the go, and Plex is one of the most useful movie and TV apps for those who still prefer to own their digital media.

You've got a video on your iPhone and a computer across the room. Can you quickly show the video on it? If the computer in question is a Mac, yes—just use AirPlay ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...

AMD's Helios server to challenge Nvidia's dominance OpenAI working with AMD on its MI450 chips AMD's acquisitions bolster AI chip and software teams Su took the stage at a developer conference in San ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.