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Paul Cunningham of ExchangeServerPro.com takes an in-depth look at the considerations that Google doesn’t mention when thinking of migrating from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps.

After properly configuring Server Core and getting it ready to deploy, you decide you want to download and install the latest Windows Server 2008 R2 updates from the Windows Update site. But, how do you do that? In this article, MVP Daniel Petri provides 5 ways to accomplish the task. Read on for more…

An introduction by Jason Zandri to CompTIA – the Computing Technology Industry Association – and their Network+ certification program, plus the skills and knowledge a candidate should have prior to sitting the N10-004 exam.

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.

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…

This article details the Windows Imaging file format (WIM), the benefits of leveraging it for deploying Windows installs, and reviews the tool (WIMGAPI) that developers use to mange existing WIM files.

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.

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.

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.