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Max your ROI on virtualization hosts with Hyper-V: Dynamic Memory
John Joyner explains how to enable the Dynamic Memory feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to increase the number of guests that can run simultaneously on your host(s) at no extra cost.
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Microsoft Lync federation enables cross-organization communications
John Joyner highlights the collaboration and communication benefits available with Microsoft Lync's federated contacts.
Posted by John Joyner | February 21, 2012, 2:26 PM PST | Latest comment by dconnolly@...
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Get password reset info for users with Windows PowerShell script
Derek Schauland illustrates how writing your own PowerShell commands can help you with pesky tasks.
Posted by Derek Schauland | February 21, 2012, 12:11 PM PST | Latest comment by Palmetto_CharlieSpencer
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Configure a Hyper-V VM for automatic startup
Ensuring all pre-requisite configuration of a virtual environment are online during a startup is critical to everything else working correctly. In this post, Rickatron shows a nifty option for...
Posted by Rick Vanover | February 20, 2012, 9:00 AM PST
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How SAS and SATA fit in with the iSCSI array
Scott Lowe answers a reader question about the relationship between certain types of storage transport protocols and disk types.
Posted by Selena Frye | February 16, 2012, 9:00 AM PST | Latest comment by colinc-icc
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White Papers
Have You Supersized Your Data Center? Avoid the Pitfalls of Oversizing
When it comes to the infrastructure of your data center or network rooms, bigger is not necessarily better. Read this white paper to learn the facts about and reasons behind oversizing. Explore...
From: APC by Schneider Electric
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Free White Paper: Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Stop wasting power at your data center--find out how to best measure, evaluate, and model electrical efficiency at both new and existing facilities.
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Strategic implications of new MS System Center 2012 licensing
Microsoft has renamed, rebundled, and repriced its licensing for the System Center 2012 products. John Joyner explains the strategy behind the licensing choices.
Posted by John Joyner | February 14, 2012, 9:00 AM PST | Latest comment by John Joyner
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First look at Windows Server 8 Setting Sync in Group Policy
Windows Server 8 brings a lot of new features for the server OS as well as the client experience. Rickatron peeks into one new Group Policy setting for Windows Server 8 in this post.
Posted by Rick Vanover | February 13, 2012, 7:04 AM PST | Latest comment by Skruis
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Audit and manage your network with Network Inventory Advisor
Derek Schauland tests the ClearApps Network Inventory Advisor, an application to help you manage and audit your network assets.
Posted by Derek Schauland | February 10, 2012, 9:26 AM PST
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How SAS, Near Line (NL) SAS, and SATA disks compare
Scott Lowe breaks down the differences in reliability and performance between SAS, Near-Line SAS, and SATA drives.
Posted by Scott Lowe | February 7, 2012, 10:20 AM PST | Latest comment by Scott Lowe
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Virtualize everything (except in these four scenarios)
Virtualization should be the de facto standard in deploying workloads today. However, there are valid exceptions. Rick Vanover lists four of them in this blog post.
Posted by Rick Vanover | February 6, 2012, 7:08 AM PST | Latest comment by jasonpreyes
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Foxit Reader for PDFs in the enterprise
Derek Schauland discovered a PDF replacement program for Adobe Reader in his office. Here are his thoughts on the Foxit Enterprise Reader.
Posted by Derek Schauland | February 2, 2012, 6:00 AM PST | Latest comment by kvankerr@...
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System Center 2012 licensing primer
Scott Lowe breaks down the changes in the licensing structure for Microsoft System Center 2012. Here are some of the basics.
Posted by Scott Lowe | January 31, 2012, 10:42 AM PST | Latest comment by marshallpaisley@...
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Storage vMotion virtual disk format options with vSphere 5
New disk options make Storage vMotion tasks give vSphere administrators more control over virtual machine disk formats. Rickatron shows how in this blog post.
Posted by Rick Vanover | January 31, 2012, 6:00 AM PST
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Eight steps to restore an individual Exchange 2010 mailbox with System Center Data Protection Manager
Exchange admins often have to restore an individual mailbox rather than an entire database. John Joyner shows you eight steps to do this using PowerShell commands and Microsoft System Center DPM.
Posted by John Joyner | January 30, 2012, 6:00 AM PST | Latest comment by John Joyner
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Manage your Windows systems remotely with PowerShell Server
Derek Schauland shows you how to set up PowerShell Server, a tool that allows you to use SSH to remotely administer Windows systems through a command-line PowerShell interface.
Posted by Derek Schauland | January 26, 2012, 6:00 AM PST
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Why the time is almost ripe for Solid State Disks in the data center
Scott Lowe considers Gartner's prediction that Solid State Disks (SSDs) will be popular in 2012. Prices are coming down and performance is good, but how reliable are they for the data center?
Posted by Scott Lowe | January 24, 2012, 9:00 AM PST | Latest comment by mudpuppy1
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Using vSphere datastore view to see VMs inventoried on disk
vSphere VMs can move around at a moment's notice. In this blog post, Rick Vanover shows how to use a handy vSphere view to see where VMs live on datastores.
Posted by Rick Vanover | January 23, 2012, 6:00 AM PST
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Microsoft's ECI may provide best options for virtualized environments
Virtualizing and deploying VMs is the easy part; scaling the solution in a simple matter becomes the hard part. Rickatron offers one easy way to scale modern infrastructure.
Posted by Rick Vanover | January 20, 2012, 11:51 AM PST | Latest comment by ReliableEnergy
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Troubleshooting woes: Some tips all IT pros should remember
Donovan Colbert describes a recent frustrating issue on a project that reinforced some of the tips IT pros should remember when troubleshooting technical problems.
Posted by Donovan Colbert | January 17, 2012, 12:52 PM PST | Latest comment by RMSx32767
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Are operational considerations overlooked in virtualization?
Virtualization is a melding of many technologies and the operational aspect of this new technology may not be given enough attention, as Rick Vanover explains in this blog post.
Posted by Rick Vanover | January 16, 2012, 6:00 AM PST | Latest comment by zyzygy@...
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Tidying up for the new year: Inventory, dispose, and clean
The beginning of a new year is the usual time to tie up loose ends from the past year and clean the slate for the coming year. Here are Jerry Smith's recommendations for tasks to consider.
Posted by Jerry Smith | January 13, 2012, 12:00 PM PST | Latest comment by mukababi@...
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Virtualize everything (except in these four scenarios)
Virtualization should be the de facto standard in deploying workloads today. However, there are valid exceptions. Rick Vanover lists four of them in this blog post.
Posted by Rick Vanover | February 6, 2012, 7:08 AM PST | Latest comment by jasonpreyes
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Modifying the Windows 7 boot loader with the Boot Configuration Data Editor tool
In Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, the bootloader was moved from boot.ini to a utility called BCDEdit. Derek Schauland shows you how to modify the boot config data with the new tool.
Posted by Derek Schauland | July 21, 2009, 6:00 AM PDT
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How SAS, Near Line (NL) SAS, and SATA disks compare
Scott Lowe breaks down the differences in reliability and performance between SAS, Near-Line SAS, and SATA drives.
Posted by Scott Lowe | February 7, 2012, 10:20 AM PST | Latest comment by Scott Lowe
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Why the time is almost ripe for Solid State Disks in the data center
Scott Lowe considers Gartner's prediction that Solid State Disks (SSDs) will be popular in 2012. Prices are coming down and performance is good, but how reliable are they for the data center?
Posted by Scott Lowe | January 24, 2012, 9:00 AM PST | Latest comment by mudpuppy1
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White Papers
Have You Supersized Your Data Center? Avoid the Pitfalls of Oversizing
When it comes to the infrastructure of your data center or network rooms, bigger is not necessarily better. Read this white paper to learn the facts about and reasons behind oversizing. Explore...
From: APC by Schneider Electric
Read more -
White Papers
Free White Paper: Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Stop wasting power at your data center--find out how to best measure, evaluate, and model electrical efficiency at both new and existing facilities.
From: APC by Schneider Electric
View this now -
Practice Cisco router configuration using a free emulator
With a simulator, there are always missing commands and programming errors, and it can never really be as complete as the real IOS. However, because an emulator runs the IOS, you get every feature...
Posted by David Davis | January 10, 2008, 11:47 AM PST | Latest comment by DavidParkerCCAI
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Two PowerShell scripts for retrieving user info from Active Directory
Obtaining user object information via Active Directory Users And Computers is fine for the one-time use, but it falls short for batch tasks. These two scripts make it easy to pull user information...
Posted by Rick Vanover | May 19, 2010, 12:00 AM PDT | Latest comment by volentib666
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First look at Windows Server 8 Setting Sync in Group Policy
Windows Server 8 brings a lot of new features for the server OS as well as the client experience. Rickatron peeks into one new Group Policy setting for Windows Server 8 in this post.
Posted by Rick Vanover | February 13, 2012, 7:04 AM PST | Latest comment by Skruis
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System Center 2012 licensing primer
Scott Lowe breaks down the changes in the licensing structure for Microsoft System Center 2012. Here are some of the basics.
Posted by Scott Lowe | January 31, 2012, 10:42 AM PST | Latest comment by marshallpaisley@...
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How SAS and SATA fit in with the iSCSI array
Scott Lowe answers a reader question about the relationship between certain types of storage transport protocols and disk types.
Posted by Selena Frye | February 16, 2012, 9:00 AM PST | Latest comment by colinc-icc
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How to determine what device is on what port on your Cisco switch
When your network is in crisis, it's important to know which device is connected to which switch port without having to run to the network room. David Davis discusses network analysis applications...
Posted by David Davis | November 8, 2007, 2:58 PM PST | Latest comment by paulroberts
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Manage your Windows systems remotely with PowerShell Server
Derek Schauland shows you how to set up PowerShell Server, a tool that allows you to use SSH to remotely administer Windows systems through a command-line PowerShell interface.
Posted by Derek Schauland | January 26, 2012, 6:00 AM PST
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Strategic implications of new MS System Center 2012 licensing
Microsoft has renamed, rebundled, and repriced its licensing for the System Center 2012 products. John Joyner explains the strategy behind the licensing choices.
Posted by John Joyner | February 14, 2012, 9:00 AM PST | Latest comment by John Joyner
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Create a Wi-Fi Access Point using Connectify
Blogger Paul Mah checks out Connectify, a free application for Windows 7 that allows you to take any Internet connection and share it via Wi-Fi.
Posted by Paul Mah | February 9, 2010, 6:00 AM PST | Latest comment by ambientNRG
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Exchange 2007: How to allow relay exceptions
Although allowing unfettered relaying of e-mail through your Exchange 2007 server should be avoided, there are situations in which allowing relaying is desirable. For example, suppose you have an...
Posted by Scott Lowe | October 26, 2007, 11:14 AM PDT | Latest comment by jcarroll@...
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Using Magic Packet Utility to send wake on LAN commands
Using wake on LAN technologies is frequently reserved for systems management software, but it is handy to know how to do the command. IT pro Rick Vanover shows how to perform the magic packet boot.
Posted by Rick Vanover | November 10, 2009, 8:14 AM PST | Latest comment by robd@...
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Eight steps to restore an individual Exchange 2010 mailbox with System Center Data Protection Manager
Exchange admins often have to restore an individual mailbox rather than an entire database. John Joyner shows you eight steps to do this using PowerShell commands and Microsoft System Center DPM.
Posted by John Joyner | January 30, 2012, 6:00 AM PST | Latest comment by John Joyner
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Simplify admin tasks by exporting Active Directory data with CSVDE
Depending on how thoroughly you use it, Active Directory can hold some very valuable information on your company and its staff. Not only does the directory contain the basic credentials of each of...
Posted by Justin Fielding | January 22, 2008, 5:06 PM PST | Latest comment by fredtd@...
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Eight easy steps to Cisco ASA remote access setup
Lori Hyde shows you a simple eight-step process to setting up remote access for users with the Cisco ASA.
Posted by Lori Hyde | March 19, 2009, 12:28 PM PDT | Latest comment by rcharlesworth@...
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Microsoft's ECI may provide best options for virtualized environments
Virtualizing and deploying VMs is the easy part; scaling the solution in a simple matter becomes the hard part. Rickatron offers one easy way to scale modern infrastructure.
Posted by Rick Vanover | January 20, 2012, 11:51 AM PST | Latest comment by ReliableEnergy
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How to install Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and Windows 7 on the same partition
Blogger Colin Smith explains how to install Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and Windows 7 on the same disk partition by booting from a VHD that contains the entire WS2K8R2 OS within a single,...
Posted by Colin Smith | September 20, 2010, 10:11 AM PDT | Latest comment by rux@...
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White Papers
Have You Supersized Your Data Center? Avoid the Pitfalls of Oversizing
When it comes to the infrastructure of your data center or network rooms, bigger is not necessarily better. Read this white paper to learn the facts about and reasons behind oversizing. Explore...
From: APC by Schneider Electric
Read more -
White Papers
Free White Paper: Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Stop wasting power at your data center--find out how to best measure, evaluate, and model electrical efficiency at both new and existing facilities.
From: APC by Schneider Electric
View this now
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