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New from Train Signal and VMware vExperts – Rick Scherer, Hal Rottenberg and David Davis is “vSphere Pro Vol. 1” – the latest VMware vSphere video training course. See a demo and find what’s included in this newest vSphere training resource.

A great reference guide for creating and cloning virtual machines for use with VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix XEN and how to avoid the most common pitfalls.

Not able to send mail from Outlook or OWA 2010? Is it stuck in the Drafts folder on your Exchange Server? Learn why this is happening and how to fix it in this quick tip article by MVP Daniel Petri.

Just released from the team at Train Signal and certified instructor Dave Shackelford is their new Small Business Server 2008 Training. View video demo and more details here.

In this article VMware expert Tom Finnis continues his evaluation of vSphere4 with a look at the new Data Recovery feature. This adds a comprehensive disaster recovery solution to the vSphere suite, providing full and incremental Virtual Machine backups all managed via a vCenter plugin. Read on to learn more….

Tom Finnis explains how to configure the Data Recovery appliance, schedule backups and restore a virtual machine from a backup. Also covered are advanced features such as VSS integrated file level backups and data de-duplication.

In this article, MVP Daniel Petri provides a solution for service providers that need to connect to multiple customer locations (using different protocols, according to customer requirements) and want to provide a single access point through which all outgoing traffic is routed.

Learn how to enable “God Mode” – a tweak for Windows 7, Server 2008 and Vista that shows all Windows customization settings in a central GodMode folder.

ImageX is a command-line tool that can be used to capture, modify, and apply file-based disk images for deployment of systems in an enterprise by leveraging the Windows Imaging format (.wim files). Learn how you can leverage it for your imaging and deployment needs in this article by Jason Zandri.

Disk2vhd is tool from Microsoft’s Sysinternals group that allows system administrators to create virtual hard disk images (VHD) of running operating systems loaded on physical hardware. VHDs are the Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format used in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). Disk2vhd Overview There are other physical-to-virtual tools that are available…

Learn the basic functionality of the Windows 7 Firewall service as well as some of the advanced security configuration.

Petri Recommended: Train Signal Inc. has just released their comprehensive video training package for Certified Wireless Network Administrator Training. View video demo and more details here.