By Michael Morales, 12/03/2009
What can you do to shorten a call to Microsoft support? Use Disk2vhd, a new Windows Sysinternals tool that converts your physical system to a .vhd image. In many cases, support ...
By Editors, 11/19/2009
Picking a favorite product from an impressive crowd of competitive offerings is never an easy task, and such was the case with our Editors' Best and Community Choice awards this ...
By Joel Oleson, 11/19/2009
Take these steps now to optimize your environment for upgrading to SharePoint 2010 when it's released.
By Michele Crockett, 11/18/2009
Gather some insights into the decision-making for determining which of Microsoft's 2010 product releases to include in your IT budget.
By Tony Redmond, 11/12/2009
Microsoft has developed a high-availability architecture for Exchange Server 2010 by using log replication for database copies through Database Availability Groups (DAGs). Here's ...
By Dennis Wynne, 11/06/2009
Royal TS is a great lightweight replacement for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Remote Desktop snap-in—and the older versions are free.
By Bill Aycock, 11/06/2009
Rather than spending money on a commercial program or digging through huge ping logs, you can use the Pingmon script to monitor your network connections.
By Brandon Jones, 11/06/2009
Here's a VBScript script that details how many Microsoft updates are installed and the date of the most recently installed update on Windows XP machines.
By Murat Yildirimoglu, 11/06/2009
One of the NTFS inheritance rules changed in Windows 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. You need to know about this change if you move files on these OSs.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 11/06/2009
If you need to retrieve information from an open Internet Explorer (IE) browsing session, try Get-IEUrl.ps1. With this PowerShell script, you can get and save web pages' URLs, ...
By Paul Thurrott, 11/03/2009
Office Web Applications are four web-based applications that provide an Office-like user experience and a good percentage of the functionality one would expect from a traditional ...
By Robert Sheldon, 10/20/2009
Here are three precautions that will go a long way in protecting your PowerShell scripts and securing your system.
By Michael Otey, 10/15/2009
VMware's latest virtualization platform, vSphere 4.0, provides a native 64-bit hypervisor for improved scalability and performance as well as adding new management and ...
By Tom Carpenter, 10/12/2009
Use these 10 performance counters to track core performance factors on Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2003 systems.
By John Savill, 08/11/2009
Make your virtual environments highly available with Live Migration and Cluster Shared Volumes, updated features worth checking out in Windows Server 2008 R2.