Michael Simmons

Don’t get lazy! Michael Simmons shows you how to backup Sharepoint 2010 data in three easy steps.

Microsoft’s Volume Activation Management Toolkit version 3 (VAMT 3) is chock-full of new features. Michael Simmons walks you through the improvements.

Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager 2010, or FIM 2010, is an identity management solution which can handle every aspect of managing identities.

If you’ve ever needed to quickly create diagrams of your Active Directory structure and wanted to automate the process, this article will help. In this post, IT veteran Michael Simmons shows you a utility that is going to do it.

Are you looking to learn SharePoint but don’t know where to start? In this post, IT veteran Michael Simmons lists some great resources — both free and paid — to help get you started, from instructor-led and online courses, to books and blogs.

For administrators of Office 365, one of the functions of your role may be to create auditing reports for Exchange Online. In this post, Michael Simmons helps you to understand the different auditing reports that are available in Office 365, and describes why they are useful.

Microsoft has recently made some significant changes in the way they’re running the certification program, including the return of the #1 certification in the Windows world: the MCSE. In this post, Michael Simmons talks about the changes in Microsoft’s new certification program and what the new MCSE means for IT pros.

There are many reasons why organizations need to keep track of their correspondences. In this post, IT veteran Michael Simmons explores why journaling is important and how to do it using Office 365.

In this post, Michael Simmons provides an in-depth look at how to create a storage pool on Windows Server 2012, using both the PowerShell cmdlets and the Storage Manager GUI tools.

We look into Storage Spaces, the Windows Server 2012 storage subsystem, and delves into why it deserves a closer look.

Do you still have questions about Windows 8? Are you wondering if Microsoft finally got it right this time? In this post, we answer 8 questions about Windows 8.

Resilient File System (ReFS) is a new file system introduced in Windows Server 2012, which, before long, we will all be using on our boot partitions. In this post, We explain how ReFS will likely replace NTFS completely within the next versions of Windows, and why you will love this new file system.