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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.

Before the release of Windows Server 2008 the process of expanding the boot volume was tedious, and in most cases involved downtime and the usage of third party partition tools to get the job done. Now, with Windows Server 2008 you can use the native Disk Manager to expand (and in some cases shrink) the boot partition without any downtime at all! Learn more…

We started this series with how Windows Firewall started out in Windows XP and then the changes to Windows Firewall in Windows XP SP2. This article will cover how Windows Firewall changed with Windows Vista. Stepping up from Windows XP SP 2 Windows Firewall as it was introduced as part of Windows XP Service Pack…

This month’s topic comes as a result of a question sent to our feedback email box recently: “Data is increasing and budgets are shrinking but reliable backups are more important than ever. As an SMB, what should I be looking for?” Today’s backup systems need to be fast, reliable, affordable and designed to easily handle…