IT Knowledgebase Articles

Although service level agreements are often a source of stress for network administrators, they can be made to work in your favor. In this article, Brien Posey uses his experiences to show you why service level agreements can sometimes be a good thing.

One of the tricky things about configuring Hyper-V is that you can have more guest operating systems than you have CPU cores. In this article, Brien Posey talks about finding the right balance between cores and guest operating systems.

One of the most annoying facts about the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager console (also known as OpsMgr) is that it is too silent… Sometimes you simply wish there was a simple beep or other sound alert coming out of it. In this article, MVP Daniel Petri passes along a great solution for how to make that happen.

In many enterprises, the organization policy is to add end users to the local Administrators group on their assigned PC; often to allow legacy applications which require administrative privileges to run correctly. However, there’s a great risk in setting the end users as local administrators… information security. In this article MVP Daniel Petri presents a few better and more secure options.

This article is a detailed guide on the steps to take to install Windows 7 Ultimate edition alongside your existing Windows Vista installation in a dual boot configuration.

Take complete walk through on the steps taken to set up your Windows Vista Ultimate system to multi-boot with Windows 7 Ultimate edition as Jason Zandri shows you how to prepare your existing system so that there is a free partition for the install.

Windows 7 is the next generation of operating system due from Microsoft. In this article, Jason Zandri takes you on a complete walk through on the steps taken to upgrade your Windows Vista Ultimate installation to Windows 7 Ultimate edition.

Server virtualization can save money by making better use of your hardware resources. Even so, deciding which servers should be virtualized, and which server should host which virtual servers is something of an art form. In this article, Brien Posey shows you a free tool from Microsoft that can help you with the planning process.

We’ve recently had to configure a couple of client’s SBS2008 Exchange 2007 servers to act as SMTP relays for remote users. Why not just use OWA or Outlook Anywhere? It mostly seems to be Mac users, in particular those with “MobileMe”, which insists on IMAP and SMTP to communicate with the mail server. Adding authenticated SMTP in Exchange 2003 was a pretty simple process, but the procedure in 2007 is not so obvious – read on to find out how to do that, and enable anonymous relaying too.

A new version of Windows Server 2008 has been announced: Windows Server 2008 Foundation. In this article, MVP Daniel Petri examines the benefits and limitations of this new addition to the Windows Server family; geared towards smaller and growing organizations.