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Do you know what Microsoft Intune is and are you using it? Released just under a year ago, Intune provides a cloud-based solution to manage and secure your PCs. Microsoft Evangelist John Weston gives 10 compelling reasons why you need to be using Intune if you aren’t already.

Peter De Tender concludes his six-part series on installing Service Manager 2012 in this post. In his concluding post, Peter explains how to install and configure the Self-Service Portal based on SharePoint Foundation 2010.

In part 1 of his two-part series, Jeff Hicks explains how to create events/entries inside the Windows event logs. There are a variety of reasons why this could be useful, and Jeff covers a few, and luckily creating an event is pretty straightforward once you get a hang of it.

Any technology presents unique security issues but cloud computing stands on its own as it ties many different technologies together. In today’s post, Mike Danseglio touches on the main points of the 80 page document, “Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing”, published in December by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

In this post by IT veteran Michael Simmons, learn how to set up the sharing features of your document libraries in Office 365 so you can share a document library with someone outside of your organization, including clients or contractors.

Microsoft’s Office 365 is an entirely different approach to their software model, putting the Office suite and server products into the cloud. Because this is such a leap from what we’ve been doing for decades, you may be wondering if it’s the right solution for your company. In this post, Michael Simmons shows you how to set up Microsoft’s free 30 day trial which you can set up on your own domain. Is Office 365 right for you? Try it out and see!

In part 2 of this two-part video series, Jason Nash of TrainSignal finishes his lesson on configuring Cisco UCS Service Profile Templates. Specifically, in this post Jason covers setting up vNIC/vHBA placement policies. This relatively new feature allows you to set up policies that determine how PCI devices are ordered on system boot-up.

In Part 5 of Peter De Tender’s series on installing System Service Manager 2012, Peter explains how to configure the Active Directory Connector. With the AD Connector configured properly, SCSM is able to synchronize data from Active Directory.

In part 3 of Micahel Simmons’ series on crash dump analysis, Michael finally dives into the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) by using the Windows Debugger (WinDbg). There is a lot of information to be had in these memory dumps and Michael will show you how to find out what Windows is trying to tell us about your unhealthy computer.

In today’s post, Eric Siebert discusses I/O storage bottlenecks, perhaps the most vulnerable part of a VM in terms of potential performance loss. Eric demonstrates how to use vCenter Server and exstop to troubleshoot and solve any I/O bottlenecks but also suggests looking at other 3rd party options such as Virtualization Manager and Storage Manager.

One of the most common reasons computers fail is because of faulty or failed memory and Windows does a good job alerting you after the memory has failed. It is better to find failing memory before it has crippled your machine though. In this post, Jeff Hicks explains how to use the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool to diagnose memory issues.

In this post, Greg Stuart challenges you to protect your data in 2012. Greg provides an easy 3 step guide to protecting your data both from intruders and from hardware failure by putting your data in the cloud and securing it properly.