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Experience is truly the best teacher. Find out the positives and the pitfalls that a deployment veteran wishes he’d known before the rollout.


Parallel Migrations: Exchange Server 2007 and Server Virtualization

By Caroline Marwitz, 06/27/2008

Penton Media's IT team discusses how they moved production servers into virtualized environments and moved part of the company from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Server ...

Need to Save Money? Build Green and Virtualize

By Jeff James, 06/26/2008

VMware's green initiatives range from building a sustainable new campus to codeveloping a program with California's Pacific Gas and Electric that encourages business use of ...

Fine-tune Server Core’s IP Stack with Netsh

By Mark Minasi, 06/26/2008

To get Server Core’s network stack set up, you can use the Netsh utility, which has gone through some recent changes. Here’s how to use the latest incarnation.

Windows Server 2008's Radical Features

By Paul Thurrott, 06/26/2008

Learn how Windows Server 2008 will transform server computing with componentization, Server Manager, read-only domain controller, and other radical features that Microsoft says ...

PowerShell 101, Lesson 6

By Robert Sheldon, 06/26/2008

The PowerShell 101 series concludes by introducing you to PowerShell's providers and drives.

Use Dcomcnfg.exe to Stop DCOM 10000 and 10005 Errors

By Apostolos Fotakelis, 06/26/2008

Here's where to find and how to use this helpful utility.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By Michael Otey, 06/26/2008

Performance testing between Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX Server revealed a number of unexpected results

What's Hot

By Jeff James, 06/26/2008

Readers highlight their favorite products from StillSecure, Utility Factory, and Secure Computing.

Bringing iSCSI SAN and Virtualization Together

By Ed Roth, 06/26/2008

Two complementary technologies—iSCSI SANs and system virtualization—hold the power to completely change your systems management processes. Here’s how to implement iSCSI them in ...

Learning about Virtual Machine Security

By Randy Franklin Smith, 06/26/2008

Find out how to secure VMs of different organizations or untrusted users that are being hosted on the same host system.

Ask the Experts

By Various Authors, 06/26/2008

Learn about IE's quick-complete string feature and how to modify it, find out about VMware's VMotion and Dynamic Resource Scheduler technologies, and get some tips about VM ...

Making a Mesh of IT?

By Karen Forster, 06/26/2008

Find out how Live Mesh fits Microsoft’s Software Plus Services (S+S) strategy.

Safeguard Your SharePoint Content with Data Protection Manager

By Michael Noel, 06/26/2008

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 gives administrators a rich set of SharePoint recovery tools that offer advanced snapshot-based recovery of item-level ...

Event-Log Manager Buyer's Guide

By Karen Bemowski, 06/26/2008

Event-log managers organize system event information for problem alerts, regulation compliance, and network and asset analysis. Use our introductory questions to help choose the ...

LANDesk Application Virtualization

By Michael Otey, 06/26/2008

LANDesk Application Virtualization doesn’t require the infrastructure of higher end application virtualization products and no client software is needed—two of the many reasons ...

A Smooth Windows Vista Migration Is Possible

By Caroline Marwitz, 06/26/2008

If FUD keeps you Vista-resistant, take heart from the Windows Vista migration tale of Penton Media's Brent Mammen, Chris Ripkey, and Lucas Smith. Preparation, end-user training, ...

Letters

By Editors, 06/26/2008

Readers ask how Windows’ built-in defragmentation compares, compliment Mark Minasi’s command-line fearlessness, issue a caveat about antivirus checkers, and thank Robert Sheldon ...

How to Significantly Speed Up Tasks That Involve Querying Computers

By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 06/26/2008

A network query to an inaccessible remote machine can take up to a minute to time out on its own. You can eliminate this wasted time with a simple PowerShell script.

KBOX 1100 Systems Management Appliance

By John Green, 06/26/2008

KACE Networks’ systems management appliance delivers a huge range of standard and optional features, from hardware and software inventory to patch management. We cover the ...

Windows Server 2008 Availability and Licensing

By Paul Thurrott, 06/26/2008

Windows Server 2008 is available in several different product editions—get the precise Server 2008 edition information you need, at a glance.

Virtualization Shootout, Part 2

By Michael Otey, 06/26/2008

Find out whether Microsoft’s Hyper-V matches the performance levels set by VMware’s ESX Server.

Command-line Tools in Windows Server 2008

By Michael Otey, 06/26/2008

Windows Server 2008 provides command-line tools for managing your systems. Use Icacls to back up ACLs, Wbadmin to back up your whole system, or Servermanagercmd to script Server ...

Understanding VMware's VMotion and Dynamic Resource Scheduler

By John Savill, 06/26/2008

Learn how these technologies allow virtual instances within a DRS cluster to be dynamically moved between the members of the DRS cluster to balance resource usage.

Vista Deployment Postmortem

By Michael Dragone, 06/26/2008

Traveling the road to Windows Vista? Learn how to get there while avoiding detours, road construction, and bridge trolls by talking to administrators who've already made the trip. ...

Paul's Picks

By Paul Thurrott, 06/26/2008

In the newest Microsoft Forefront security application, code-named Stirling, Forefront's security tools let you automate responses to security threats; plus, smart phone users ...

What You Need to Know About Microsoft Live Mesh

By Paul Thurrott, 06/26/2008

Call it cloud computing, Software Plus Services, or S+S—Microsoft Live Mesh is an operating environment that offers a Web-based version of the Windows Vista desktop and a ...

VMware and the Future of Virtualization

By Jeff James, 06/26/2008

What's next for virtualization and business IT? Windows IT Pro senior editor Jeff James speaks with VMware President and CEO Diane Greene on the future of virtualization ...

Changing IE's Quick-Complete String

By John Savill, 06/26/2008

Follow these steps to modify Internet Explorer's quick-complete string.


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Essential Guides

Is your iSCSI "lossy"? The reality is that most off-the-shelf Ethernet hardware deployed for iSCSI can lose packets, resulting in slow performance or application downtime. Learn how to assess your current iSCSI infrastructure and engineer an advanced iSCSI SAN infrastructure.

Web Seminars

What's the best way to keep your network safe from malware? In this web seminar, security expert Greg Shields suggests an alternative method to the traditional blacklisting approach that is common with anti-virus and anti-malware solutions.

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