Windows Server

If you’ve ever run commands from a command prompt and run into problems, Microsoft MVP Jeff Hicks has a solution for you. In this tutorial Jeff shows how to use a command line utility called where.exe. In part 2 of this series, Jeff will show you another command line alternative to help you find the files you’re looking for.

In the conclusion of this series on Command Line WMI, Jeff looks at some advanced ways of formatting data.

The ability to gather information from remote computers is where WMI can really come in handy. In Part 2 of this three-part series, Jeff Hicks shows how to query remote machines and work with WMIC right from the command line.

In part 1 of this series, Jeff Hicks shows you how to take advantage of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and how to use it as a database you can query, without a single bit of scripting or using a PowerShell command.

Want to know if your CPU supports SLAT (Second Level Address Translation)? In this post, Daniel Petri goes over the specific requirements for the embedded Hyper-V feature that Windows 8 Client offers.

In this video post, Ed Liberman describes what the components of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 are, and how they relate to those found in past versions of Windows Server.

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 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 4 of Peter De Tender’s 6 part series on installing Service Manager 2012, Peter walks through configuring the SCCM 2007 R3 Connector. This is a critical step as it connects SCSM to your System Manager, feeding important data to your CMDB and simplifying the management of objects and data.

In the third installment of Peter De Tender’s series on Installing Service Mangager 2012 Beta, Peter explains how to set up the data warehouse server. Microsoft best practices state that this should be installed on a separate machine so Peter walks you through, step-by-step, installing the data warehouse manager on a separate VM.