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Office 365 allows you to connect to your work email as easily as you’ve been connecting to your personal Hotmail account. We go over several approaches to moving your contacts or address book into Office 365.

Delivering IT as a service (ITaaS) reduces errors and increases end user satisfaction. This post by IT veteran Michael Simmons provides an overview of some of the concepts surrounding the development of delivering ITaaS in enterprise organizations. Simmons lists all the Microsoft System Center 2012 products and a description of what each one does.

Introducing Microsoft’s Private Cloud, which allows a faster delivery of services, and a more categorical approach to your datacenters and your method of delivering services while utilizing System Center 2012.

In this post by IT veteran Michael Simmons, learn how to set up the sharing features of your document libraries in Office 365 so you can share a document library with someone outside of your organization, including clients or contractors.

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…

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.

A summary of the possible upgrade paths from previous versions to the Windows 7 operating system.

The Windows 7 Release Candidate download page on TechNet suddenly showed up online and available for review for a short while a few days before it was supposed to officially show up. Here’s a summary of what was published…

Many organizations virtualize their servers to help save money on hardware costs. What you may not realize is though, is that virtualization can save you a bundle on licensing costs too. In this article, Brien Posey explains why.