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In this post, Jeff Hicks shows how to identify what accounts your services are running under, as well as identify potential problems before they become major headaches, using both PowerShell and the command line.

With iOS devices everywhere and new versions of the OS being released a couple times a year, you may be looking for a quick way to manually update your device. In today’s post by John O’Neill Sr., you will learn how to upgrade a device by specifying a specific iOS file.

Office 365 allows you to connect to your work email as easily as you’ve been connecting to your personal Hotmail account. We go over several approaches to moving your contacts or address book into Office 365.

In this post, IT veteran Mike Danseglio examines the US government’s concerns about using public cloud computing, by mapping the theory and recommendations expressed in the Special Publication 800-144 Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing with a practical IT approach.

In the conclusion of this series on vCloud Director, we discuss creating two important entities: a Provider Virtual Datacenter and a VM Deployment Template.

In the conclusion of this series on Command Line WMI, Jeff looks at some advanced ways of formatting data.

Are you looking to work with a multi-site environment but don’t have a “true” router to work with? In this post, J. Peter Bruzzese and Ed Liberman team up to show you a relatively simple solution, as long as you have a decent grasp of subnetting, an understanding of AD Sites and Services, and basic network troubleshooting and testing.

There are two popular and mutually incompatible virtual disk file formats in common use today: VMware’s VMDK format and Microsoft’s VHD format. In order to attach a VHD disk to a VMware virtual machine, or vice-versa, you have to convert it first. This guide by virtualization and storage expert Tom Finnis explains how to use Starwind’s V2V Converter utility to do just that, with a detailed example explaining how to convert a VMDK virtual disk to VHD format and then mount it in a Windows system in order to edit the files it contains.

Interested in learning more about VMware vCloud Director? In the first of this two-part series, we’ll show you how to set up vCloud Director from the web interface.

The ability to gather information from remote computers is where WMI can really come in handy. In Part 2 of this three-part series, Jeff Hicks shows how to query remote machines and work with WMIC right from the command line.

Are you looking to gain experience with the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) platform, but don’t have access to a UCS lab? No problem! Sean Wilkins shows you how to use UCS Platform Emulator (UCSPE), Cisco’s perfect low cost solution.

Introducing Microsoft’s Private Cloud, which allows a faster delivery of services, and a more categorical approach to your datacenters and your method of delivering services while utilizing System Center 2012.