With its improved console, easier reporting and service-oriented health checks, SCOM 2007 is a welcome improvement over MOM 2005.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 05/01/2008
Finding a data needle in the haystack that is your hard disk requires more than just a magnifying glass and a huge dose of patience.
- By Peter Varhol
- 05/01/2008
Spring is here, and it's time to clean up some of the dark corners of your Active Directory forest.
- By Ashley McGlone
- 05/01/2008
Even with the Web and IM, professional-level IT user groups are just as vibrant and important as ever.
Follow these best practices to help ensure high availability for your mission-critical applications.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 04/01/2008
Readers reflect mixed emotions on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, virtualization and the corporate juggernaut that is Microsoft.
Hardware and software products use different approaches to high availability.
- By Peter Varhol
- 04/01/2008
Derek Melber shows how you can eliminate logon scripts, become more secure and even save money with the new Group Policy Preferences in Vista and Windows Server 2008.
- By Derek Melber
- 03/10/2008
Microsoft's Trustworthy Academic Advisory Board has been keeping tabs on security issues -- external as well as internal -- that continue to challenge Microsoft's developers. Here's a peek into the board, which marks five years on watch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/04/2008
Whether on-site or hosted, today's project-management software can help you get a handle on day-to-day administration.
- By Peter Varhol
- 03/01/2008
The time may be right for Redmond's acquisition, but there are planty of obstacles littering the road to a smooth technical merging of Microsoft and Yahoo.
- By Ed Scannell and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/01/2008
At first glance, Redmond's new server looks like a solid solution for business intelligence.
- By J.Peter Bruzzese and Ron Barrett
- 03/01/2008
Too intimidated to enable your Windows XP and Windows Vista Firewall? Be afraid no more.
- By Greg Shields
- 03/01/2008
Virtualization and configurability in Microsoft's new server OS present enterprise IT shops with both challenges and opportunities.
- By Peter Varhol
- 02/01/2008
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
Any of these solutions can help ensure that you're following organizational policies or regulatory requirements.
- 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.
Enhanced administration, security, IIS updates and virtualization promise to make moving to Microsoft's new server OS worthwhile.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 02/01/2008
With Service Pack 1 out, admins should know that there are a few tricks to updating clustered Exchange 2007 servers the right way. Here's a guide.
Disaster recovery tends to become a focus during any period of economic uncertainty -- and 2008 will deliver uncertainty in spades if market pundits are correct.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 01/18/2008