IT Knowledgebase Articles

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.

Deciding how many mailbox stores to place on an Exchange Server, and deciding how to arrange the storage groups can be something of an art form. In this article, Brien Posey discusses more considerations for store and storage group placement.

Backing up your Group Policy Objects allows you to restore group policy settings without having to perform an entire Active Directory restoration. In this article, Brien Posey walk you through the process.

In the past few months, Microsoft has begun an interesting project to build out automated solutions for many KB articles that allow administrators to perform some necessary fixes without having to manually intervene with the operating system. These are the “Fix It For Me” articles. In this article, MVP Daniel Petri introduces this new resource.