By Paul Thurrott, 03/27/2008
Learn why Windows Home Server is impressive and what effect it could have on small businesses.
By Nathan Winters, 03/27/2008
Learn about problems you might encounter with running a mixed environment of Exchange 2003 SP1 and Exchange 2003 SP2 servers.
By Cricket Liu, 03/27/2008
You understand the importance of securing your external name servers, but what about your DNS clients? Two new client-focused vulnerabilities demand your attention.
By Todd Erickson, 03/27/2008
As software-licensing audits become more common, businesses are finding that software asset management (SAM) solutions can help ensure they're in compliance with licensing ...
By Readers, 03/27/2008
Not looking forward to migrating to Vista? It's not your only option.
By Robert Larson, 03/27/2008
Save time and server space by doing a physical to virtual (P2V) OS migration with Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) and Mobile Automated Services (ADS). Mobile P2V gives you ...
By John Savill, 03/27/2008
In-place upgrades to Windows Server 2008 are more complex than clean installations of the OS. Find out what you need to consider before performing an upgrade.
By Readers, 03/27/2008
This file-path copying technique has been around since Windows NT, so you can use it with many Windows OSs.
By Various Authors, 03/27/2008
Learn about automatic site coverage and how to disable it, find out how to configure how often Group Policy security settings are updated, follow along as Mark Russinovich ...
By Derek Hatchard, 03/27/2008
You can sandbox applications, delegate configuration decisions, control access to all content types, and more with IIS 7.0 security features.
By Caroline Marwitz, 03/27/2008
An experienced Windows administrator offers his DNS insights and practical tips to help you make your DNS environment more secure.
By Robert Larson, 03/27/2008
The default installation of VSMT 1.1 doesn’t come with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) patch files, so here's what you do.
By John Savill, 03/27/2008
Find out how automatic site coverage enables clients find the nearest DC.
By John Savill, 03/27/2008
Windows Server 2008 installation is a very different beast than what you’ve experienced in the past. Follow these few steps to begin using the new OS today.
By Karen Forster, 03/27/2008
As April begins, Microsoft has big news about Xbox as a server and amazing virtualizationa nd management options.
By Apostolos Fotakelis, 03/27/2008
You might think that performing such tasks as checking available disk space or searching for a file while Windows is installing is impossible, but that's not the case.
By Paul Thurrott, 03/27/2008
Learn why changes to Windows Genuine Advantage in Vista SP1 might send you scurrying to update.
By Michael Otey, 03/27/2008
Keep up with the fast-growing virtualization market by building your virtual machines (VMs) and managing your environment with these free products.
By Jeff James, 03/27/2008
Reader highlight their favorite products from Appassure, 3CX, and Google.
By John Savill, 03/27/2008
Learn how to configure how often Group Policy updates security settings.
By John Green, 03/27/2008
SteelEye’s clustering and disaster recovery solution, LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Windows, offers admirable support for both replicated and shared storage, easy configuration ...
By Mark Minasi, 03/27/2008
Every new Windows version seems to come with a new defrag tool, and Vista is no exception. But its GUI-based defragmenter leaves a lot to be desired. Here’s how you can use the ...
By Todd Erickson, 03/27/2008
Evaluate 11 patch management products to decide which solution is right for your environment.
By Jeff James, 03/27/2008
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Microsoft Robert 2008
By Various Authors, 03/27/2008
Readers benefit from Mark Minasi’s Cipher tip, respond to Robert Sheldon’s PowerShell 101 series, offer a Vista UAC workaround, and complain about too much Server 2008 and Vista ...
By Robert Larson, 03/27/2008
If you’re using the Virtual Server Migration Toolkit version 1.1 (VSMT) with Windows Server 2003, you can run into problems with the patch cache. Here's why.
By Todd Erickson, 03/27/2008
Keep these questions in mind when looking at software asset management (SAM) products.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 03/27/2008
Here are some basic, common-sense tricks you can use to help keep your Microsoft product key list usable and safe.
By Anup Kafle, 03/27/2008
Set targeted search scopes, and provide custom search forms and results pages with MOSS 2007's Advanced Search Web part and the Search Center site template.
By Robert Sheldon, 03/27/2008
PowerShell's comparison, logical, and arithmetic operators combined with its support for wildcards and regular expressions help put the "Pow" in PowerShell.
By Various Authors, 03/27/2008
If it's time for a new model, what do you do with your old standby?