As his boss Bill Gates departs, Ozzie takes Microsoft's online strategy into the cloud.
IT workflow-automation products could be the key to accelerating your day-to-day IT tasks and helping you build IT processes.
- By Ben Brady and Peter Varhol
- 07/01/2008
SCCM 2007's new maintenance, configuration-tracking and updated reporting features make it a must-have for large Windows sites.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 07/01/2008
Windows Server 2008 has a new way to migrate Group Policies.
- By Rhonda Layfield
- 07/01/2008
ISVs look to fill in some of the pieces of Microsoft's unified communications vision.
- By Peter Varhol
- 07/01/2008
Automating IT processes can help keep your staff focused on critical tasks, but starting a project involves inherently complex decisions.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2008
The flood of social-networking technologies rushing into the enterprise is forcing IT to become still more flexible.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2008
Microsoft's new System Center Essentials fits the bill for managing small to midsize businesses.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 06/01/2008
New and established tools help admins get control of Windows Vista on the enterprise network.
E-mail archiving and storage that ensure compliance with regulatory standards continue to be an ongoing challenge.
- By David W. Tschanz
- 06/01/2008
The hugely anticipated Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista hits the mark in some instances. In others -- not so much.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 06/01/2008
Even with the Web and IM, professional-level IT user groups are just as vibrant and important as ever.
Hardware and software products use different approaches to high availability.
- By Peter Varhol
- 04/01/2008
Readers reflect mixed emotions on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, virtualization and the corporate juggernaut that is Microsoft.
Follow these best practices to help ensure high availability for your mission-critical applications.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 04/01/2008
Any of these solutions can help ensure that you're following organizational policies or regulatory requirements.
- By Peter Varhol
- 02/01/2008
Virtualization and configurability in Microsoft's new server OS present enterprise IT shops with both challenges and opportunities.
- By Peter Varhol
- 02/01/2008
Redmond's new database server is a complex product often running mission-critical apps. You can't afford to not get it right.
As the clamor from IT shops for better internal search grows louder, competition among vendors both large and small gets hotter.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- 02/01/2008
Enhanced administration, security, IIS updates and virtualization promise to make moving to Microsoft's new server OS worthwhile.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 02/01/2008