IT Knowledgebase Articles

In this video post, Jeff hicks goes through the first 5 of the top 10 tasks to perform with PowerShell in Windows Server 2008. In part 1 Jeff covers changing local administrator passwords, restarting & shutting down servers, terminating or restarting processes and creating a disk utilization report, all with PowerShell.

Kasia Lorenc catches up with Jefferey Snover, inventor of PowerShell to discuss PowerShell’s beginnings, its history and the importance of PowerShell for today’s IT professionals.

In this video tutorial, J. Peter Bruzzese demonstrates how to set up outgoing email services in SharePoint 2010. Email in SharePoint enables alerts, improves communication and assists with organization. This is the 2nd part of a 2-part video series.

ESXi5 is the latest version of VMware’s virtualization hypervisor, which enables multiple virtual machines to run simultaneously on a single physical host, and is free to download and use. In this article Tom Finnis describes the new features in this version and discusses how you might benefit from installing it, whilst covering the basics like hardware requirements and the installation procedure.

In this post, Kasia Lorenc of TrainSignal catches up with Jeff Hicks at TechEd to discuss Windows PowerShell and why he feels that it will soon be a requirement for every IT admin to know how to use it.

In this post, vExpert David Davis shares his free 2 hour training course and whitepaper on virtualization that covers a variety of topics ranging from what virtualization is, why you need it, overviews of the various virtualization solutions and more.

Deploying performance and fault monitoring tools to monitor and configure your infrastructure adds layers of complexity; multiple products to log into & maintain, in addition to out of control alerts. Solve the issue of application management overload with a single application containing all your performance and alert data.

In this post, Jeff Hicks goes over some useful tricks utilizing Get-WMIObject in WMI PowerShell. Utilizing PowerShell, and GetWMIObject, makes working with WMI easier and more flexible, allowing for more efficient management of your Windows Servers.

A walk-through with Josh Stevens, Head Geek at SolarWinds, on configuring a Cisco router to export NetFlow data. In this video Josh covers the manual setup since there could be situations when NetFlow Configurator might not work for you, for instance, if you don’t have SNMP access to your routers. Full transcript provided.

Do you know the difference between persistent and non-persistent virtual desktops? Learn more as Greg Stuart guides you through deciding which setup is best for your situation.