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Windows Firewall under the Windows 7 operating system offers many new features and operational enhancements over prior versions. Where did the Windows Firewall begin? Windows XP offers the first iteration of a firewall service as part of the operating system. Additional changes were introduced as a part of the release of Windows Vista until the full…

This tutorial by Christian Mohn provides instructions on how to nest Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala into Microsoft Windows using only free software.

One of the toughest questions that IT professionals commonly face in today’s dynamic IT world… Who touched the servers and what did they do? ObserveIT provides products which allow enterprise-wide recording and indexing of any human interaction with your servers, and index this data alongside with detailed metadata of what is seen on the screen. Learn all about it in this article by MVP Daniel Petri.

Learn how you can save money and simplify the administration of multiple remote systems with the free and open-source tool, mRemote (released under the GPL license), as detailed in this article by Wesley D.

Whether you’re planning on virtualizing the majority of your existing servers or just using it as part of your infrastructure, vSphere4 represents a major investment for most SME IT managers. This article is aimed at helping you plan for implementing your own vSphere4 Infrastructure, from meeting system requirements to choosing appropriate licensing options, and all options in between.

Previously, when doing an RDP-in-RDP session, the yellow RDP bar or tab sits one on top of the other, making it hard to minimize one screen instead of the other. However, new functionality in Windows 7/ 2008 R2 makes it possible to drag these tabs to any side of the screen, making it easy to see one tab on top of the other. Get the details in this article by MVP Daniel Petri.

Whether you have five or 5,000 PCs, managing your OS images is a crucial part of your IT infrastructure. Done well, an image management solution can free up your time and make your help desk (and by extension your users) blissful. Done poorly or not at all and you have entered the misty realms of…

Accelerators are a new feature of Internet Explorer 8 that speed up the web browsing experience by providing quick access to functions like mapping, emailing, etc. that would normally require a few extra steps to reach. Learn all about them in this article by Jason Zandri.

In this latest article in his series on vSphere4 Tom Finnis explains one of the less publicised new features in ESXi4 – VMDirectPath; which allows host PCI & PCIe devices to be passed through to the virtual machine.

This article looks at the Windows 7 Start Menu, some of the changes in the basic functions of it and how you can perform some customizations for personalization and ease of use.