Architecting the Best Service Desk Solution for Your Organization
by ScriptLogic
In this paper, written by John Savill, you will learn the key capabilities that are vital to a successful Service Desk solution, the importance of integration with monitoring solutions and enabling user self-service through web based portals and email based requests.
The Essential Guide to Optimizing Windows Server Workloads
by Cisco
Read this Essential Guide to learn some of the ways in which IT shops today can benefit from the increased control, manageability, performance, and cost-benefits afforded by a more strategic, and synergistic, approach to systems management by means of using smarter infrastructure and components.
The Essential Guide to Least Privilege: A Use Case-Based Approach
by Viewfinity
This Essential Guide explains what tools administrators and users can use in Windows today to honor least privilege. It also looks at how third-party applications can complement the least-privilege controls embedded in Windows to further lock down access to the Windows platform and its resources.
The Essential Guide to Lossless iSCSI
by Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems
This essential guide will arm you with that knowledge and you’ll be well positioned to assess your current iSCSI infrastructure, evaluate lossless iSCSI products, and engineer an iSCSI SAN infrastructure that will make it possible to implement high-class benefits that are traditionally only available with its FC cousin.
The Essential Guide to an NDS-to-Active Directory Migration
by Quest Software
With the release of Windows Server 2008 and the latest iteration of Active Directory, many enterprise IT departments have decided that Active Directory is a sufficiently mature and proven technology and that the time has come to move from their current networking environment.
The Essential Guide: System Management Moves to the Cloud
by Viewfinity
The SMB market (500 to 3,000 desktops), can greatly benefit from a comprehensive systems management program. But finding a way to implement such a program without breaking the budget can be daunting. This guide will help you with this process.
ASP.NET MVC (model view controller) and Custom HTTP Handlers
by Syncfusion
Industry expert Dino Esposito walks through the essentials of ASP.NET MVC and how it offers an alternate programming model compared to Web Forms but shares the same runtime environment. Additionally, this guide covers how ASP.NET MVC contrasts classic Web Forms requests with HTTP handlers and discusses some of the intricacies you might face when hosting custom HTTP handlers in an ASP.NET MVC application.
A Guide to Migrating Public Folders to SharePoint
by AvePoint
This guide to migrating public folders to SharePoint Server, brought to you by Windows IT Pro and AvePoint, will provide a general overview of the process that will help you plan, design, and carryout your migration with as few problems and pitfalls as possible.
The Essential Guide to Exchange Server Consolidation
by Unisys
Microsoft has steadily improved the scalability, availability and performance of Exchange Server since its initial release. In many environments, Microsoft’s standard recommendations for sizing and configuring servers work perfectly well. However, there are several additional ways in which you can optimize Exchange architecture designs to reduce cost and increase service levels.
The Essential Guide to SQL Server Consolidation
by Unisys
In recent years, application consolidation has been a hot topic within many IT organizations. Why should customers consider database consolidation now? According to industry analysts, companies can typically realize cost savings in the range of 20% by consolidating their database environments.
The Essential Guide to Desktop Virtualization
by Unisys
As the cost and labor to keep enterprise desktops secure and productive has increased over recent years, many companies are turning to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to centralize desktop management. In this Essential Guide we’ll provide a technical overview of VDI and show how IT can leverage VDI to gain better flexibility and control while reducing TCO by as much as 30 percent.
The Essential Guide to SQL Server 2005 BI
by Dell
In this Essential Guide, we look at how the tools available in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 support Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services.
The Essential Guide to Windows Server 2008
by Unisys
This essential guide looks at the major user needs that are driving the server market in 2008; server consolidation, application consolidation, database-driven solutions, and business intelligence.
The Essential Guide to Understanding Unified Communications
by Dell
If you've been paying attention to Microsoft marketing lately, you've heard a lot about a concept called Unified Communications (UC). I've talked with some people who weren't sure what UC was all about. Is it a new product or line of products? The answer to that question is both simple and complex, but at its core, UC is about Microsoft's recognition that communication plays an important role in the modern workplace.
The Essential Guide to Creating an Environment for Sustaining Compliance
by Shavlik Technologies
Before the onslaught of today's security-related mandates most companies were already struggling to deal with their own internal mandates for security and control of their IT infrastructure. Faced with the multiple mandates and looming deadlines it's easy to take a reactive, point-in-time oriented approach.
The Essential Guide to Exchange 2007 Storage Sizing
by Dell
This guide explores the fundamental concepts underlying Exchange storage sizing, explore the relationship between storage performance and capacity, and show you which factors you need to consider as you're planning your Exchange 2007 storage deployment.
The Essential Guide to Exchange 2007 Storage Planning & Implementation
by Dell
As you prepare to transition to Exchange 2007, you'll find that there are several areas of design and implementation that require a different perspective from previous versions. Storage design is one of these areas; the architectural changes in Exchange 2007 mean that you'll need to approach your Exchange environment with a fresh eye to design the optimum Exchange infrastructure for your needs.
The Essential Guide to Reporting Services Tips & Tricks
by 90 Degree
Whether you are a developer tasked with report design or a business user who wants to create your own reports, here are some tips and tricks for easily and efficiently creating valuable, flexible reports that perform well, plus a sampling of some third-party tools you can use to extend SSRS's functionality.
The Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery and Virtualization
by CA XOsoft
In this guide, will demonstrate how XOSoft’s WANSync HA application together with VMware ESX Server can be used to provide automatic systems failover on a shared platform and provide the ability to test those systems, in production, to give you the assurance that the data being written to the high availability solution is valid and can be relied upon whenever you need to invoke the disaster recovery.
The Essential Guide to Using Network Access Protection to Secure a Windows Longhorn Network
by Microsoft
Network Access Protection, a new feature in Windows Longhorn Server, provides a way of ensuring that only clients that have dotted their I's and crossed their T's are able to connect to the organization's network. This article will look at how Network Access Protection policies are configured and will provide a summary of how they are used to keep clients that connect to the network in an appropriate state of health.
The Essential Guide to Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition
by Microsoft
Designed for the enterprise-computing environment, Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition delivers on the enterprise class reliability, scalability, and large-scale virtualization needs of the Windows Server user. Datacenter
Edition is the most powerful and flexible version of Windows Server.
The Essential Guide to SQL Server Backup and Recovery
by Idera
SQL Server 2005 provides four high-availability technologies: failover clustering and database mirroring, both with supported automatic failover; and log shipping and replication, with either manual or custom-coded failover.
Special Report: Perspectives on SQL Server Sprawl
by PolyServe
How many new SQL Servers and databases has your company put up in the last year? In the last two years? Don’t know? Can’t count, there are so many? Does it seem like your database inventory is spiraling out of control? Is containing costs becoming a serious challenge? You’re not alone. This Special Report takes a close look at how SQL Server sprawl affects various key people in every organization and provides best practices for preventing server sprawl.
The Essential Guide to SQL Server Management Fundamentals
by EMC
If you're new to managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 you might feel somewhat lost in a world of tables, indexes, stored procedures, queries, and database backup. In this Essential Guide, I‘ll show you the tools you need to manage a SQL Server 2005 system, SQL Server security essentials, and database backup and recovery. With this article under your belt, you'll know enough about SQL Server to perform necessary administrative tasks on a SQL Server 2005 system.
The Essential Guide to 64-Bit Server
by AMD
The introduction of 64-bit capabilities for x86 architecture (referred to as x64) and the growing availability of hardware and software for this architecture, have ushered in a new era of 64-bit computing. In this essential guide, you'll learn about running SQL Server on the 64-bit platform.
The Essential Guide to Unified Threat Management
by Corrent
In this Essential Guide, we’ll overview Unified Threat Management (UTM) and describe its benefits—as well as some of the gotchas you should watch for. The security industry is going in a great direction with UTM, but UTM is not the best solution for every situation.
The Essential Guide to Analytic Dashboards
by ProClarity
The proliferation of different types of BI tools in the marketplace has understandably contributed to confusion about what constitutes a portal, a dashboard, and a scorecard.
The Essential Guide to Active Directory Management
by Quest Software
Read the Essential Guide to Active Directory Management to get the tools that to reduce IT workload, the complexity of managing AD, improve security, and reduce overall costs of implementing and managing Active Directory.