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Whether you’re planning on virtualizing the majority of your existing servers or just using it as part of your infrastructure, vSphere4 represents a major investment for most SME IT managers. This article is aimed at helping you plan for implementing your own vSphere4 Infrastructure, from meeting system requirements to choosing appropriate licensing options, and all options in between.

Previously, when doing an RDP-in-RDP session, the yellow RDP bar or tab sits one on top of the other, making it hard to minimize one screen instead of the other. However, new functionality in Windows 7/ 2008 R2 makes it possible to drag these tabs to any side of the screen, making it easy to see one tab on top of the other. Get the details in this article by MVP Daniel Petri.

Whether you have five or 5,000 PCs, managing your OS images is a crucial part of your IT infrastructure. Done well, an image management solution can free up your time and make your help desk (and by extension your users) blissful. Done poorly or not at all and you have entered the misty realms of…

Accelerators are a new feature of Internet Explorer 8 that speed up the web browsing experience by providing quick access to functions like mapping, emailing, etc. that would normally require a few extra steps to reach. Learn all about them in this article by Jason Zandri.

In this latest article in his series on vSphere4 Tom Finnis explains one of the less publicised new features in ESXi4 – VMDirectPath; which allows host PCI & PCIe devices to be passed through to the virtual machine.

This article looks at the Windows 7 Start Menu, some of the changes in the basic functions of it and how you can perform some customizations for personalization and ease of use.

Internet Explorer’s new InPrivate Browsing feature allows you to surf the web using IE8 without effectively leaving a track to where you’ve been and what your activities were. In this article, Jason Zandri walks through the security and privacy features of this new functionality.

I am running a multitude of Windows-based virtual machines hosted on a bunch of virtualization products, ranging from Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server (yes, I need those for most of the Microsoft Official Curriculum courses I teach), Microsoft Hyper-V, along with those hosted on VMware products such as ESX and (my personal favorite) Workstation….

This article is one of a list of articles dealing with Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7, and in it I will show you what are the virtual disk options that you can use when building and configuring a VM in Windows Virtual PC. If you haven’t done so yet, read my article on installing…

As you probably all know by now, Windows XP Professional allows you to only use one concurrent Remote Desktop session. The moment the remote user connects to the workstation by using Remote Desktop, the locally logged-on user is locked out of the computer, and the remote user, if he or she are using the same…

This article takes a look the changes to the Windows desktop and new functionality to perform customizations for personalization and ease of use that are included in Windows 7.

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 are a package of add-ons that allow administration of computers running Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2 from a remote computer that is running Windows 7.