IT Knowledgebase Articles

In her first post for the Petri IT Knowledgebase, VMware vExpert Melissa Palmer explains what VMware vApp is, how useful a vApp can be, and how to create one.

Aidan Finn explains how Microsoft is positioning Azure towards small and medium enterprises as a supplement to on-premise IT resources.

Microsoft will let admins delve deeper into their Office 365 data with the newly-released Office Delve. Peter Duggan and J. Peter Bruzzese give us the details.

Looking to make your data more secure? Daniel Petri shows us how to enable SSL traffic encryption in Microsoft SQL Server in this step-by-step tutorial.

Aidan Finn shows us how to boot a Hyper-V virtual machine off of a network by using the preboot execution environment (PXE).

Frustrated by tedious IT help desk tasks? Daniel Petri and Haim Cohen provide some relief with a configuration script that automates repetitive help desk tasks.

Aidan Finn shows how to use the Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Enhanced Session mode to get increased performance for virtual machine connections.

Are you a lover of craft beer? If so, then we think you might enjoy this carefully crafted (pun intended) list of beers for system administrators.

Still can’t decide if you should upgrade to Windows Server 2012 R2? Aidan Finn serves up five reasons why you should upgrade to Microsoft’s latest server OS.

Learn how to downsize to an ‘extra small’ server core Microsoft Azure VM in this how-to by Russell Smith.