IT Knowledgebase Articles

In this article, Daniel explains how to manually move a virtual machine between Hyper-V hosts, including what considerations need to be made for a manual migration.

In this article, Aaron outlines the simplest way of getting BPOS up and running. Step-by-step instructions for configuring BPOS as primary mail server for a domain without any data migration and no Exchange co-existence.

Jennifer McCown provides an introduction to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), with an emphasis on the SSIS development environment. SSIS is Microsoft’s full feature extract-transform-load (ETL) tool in SQL Server 2005, 2008, and R2.

Daniel discusses a new option available in Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 designed to protect Active Directory objects from accidental deletion. The option is available for all objects that are manageable through Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC).

Job interview coming up? Daniel continues his series on technical job interview questions for MCSE’s and System admins with a focus on Windows Server 2008/R2 Hyper-V and Virtualization topics.

Purchasing SSL SAN certificates from a genuine commercial certificate authority to use with Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 ensures less administrative effort in implementing and maintaining SSL for Exchange services.

Daniel explains how to resolve Server 2008 R2 Server Core error: “The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship”

SQL Server Profiler is a flexible profiling tool that comes with SQL Server. In this article, Jennifer McCown introduces the tool and details how to begin tracing database activity in your environment.

Jason Zandri goes inside the Windows 7 Action Center and explains how to configure which Windows 7 alerts you see in the taskbar as well as a couple of maintenance and troubleshooting tasks that can be performed.

Daniel shows readers how to edit the registry settings in Windows 7 so as to remove the Libraries and Favorites folders from Windows Explorer.