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Daniel discusses a new option available in Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 designed to protect Active Directory objects from accidental deletion. The option is available for all objects that are manageable through Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC).

Job interview coming up? Daniel continues his series on technical job interview questions for MCSE’s and System admins with a focus on Windows Server 2008/R2 Hyper-V and Virtualization topics.

Purchasing SSL SAN certificates from a genuine commercial certificate authority to use with Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 ensures less administrative effort in implementing and maintaining SSL for Exchange services.

Daniel explains how to resolve Server 2008 R2 Server Core error: “The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship”

SQL Server Profiler is a flexible profiling tool that comes with SQL Server. In this article, Jennifer McCown introduces the tool and details how to begin tracing database activity in your environment.

Jason Zandri goes inside the Windows 7 Action Center and explains how to configure which Windows 7 alerts you see in the taskbar as well as a couple of maintenance and troubleshooting tasks that can be performed.

Daniel shows readers how to edit the registry settings in Windows 7 so as to remove the Libraries and Favorites folders from Windows Explorer.

ADPREP is a necessary tool used to prepare a forest and domain prior to installing a domain controller on a Windows Server 2008. Daniel takes users through the steps needed to run this valuable tool.

In this article, Daniel explains a handy new feature of Windows Server 2008 R2, which allows for remote management from another server or from a Windows 7 workstation, by using Server Manager.

Daniel outlines the important steps needed to remotely manage disks on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine so as to avoid a “RPC Server is Unavailable” error.

Your database is made of data; data is defined by data types. Data types are so fundamental yet they’re often overlooked. In this article, Jennifer McCown answers a few of the most common questions on VARCHAR, CHAR and choosing string data types for your database.

Hosted services have been around for a long time. But, it’s only recently that Microsoft has waded into the fray with their own flavor of hosted cloud software: the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS). But does it stack up to the competition?