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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
By Robert Sheldon, 06/26/2008
The PowerShell 101 series concludes by introducing you to PowerShell's providers and drives.
By Apostolos Fotakelis, 06/26/2008
Here's where to find and how to use this helpful utility.
By Michael Otey, 06/26/2008
Performance testing between Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX Server revealed a number of unexpected results
By Jeff James, 06/26/2008
Readers highlight their favorite products from StillSecure, Utility Factory, and Secure Computing.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
By Karen Forster, 06/26/2008
Find out how Live Mesh fits Microsoft’s Software Plus Services (S+S) strategy.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
By Michael Otey, 06/26/2008
Find out whether Microsoft’s Hyper-V matches the performance levels set by VMware’s ESX Server.
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 ...
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.
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By John Savill, 06/26/2008
Follow these steps to modify Internet Explorer's quick-complete string.