These products can help make your occasional forays into the world of databases much easier to take.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2008
As his boss Bill Gates departs, Ozzie takes Microsoft's online strategy into the cloud.
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
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
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
You may not have heard of them, but VPN concentrators can help you properly secure your virtual private network.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese and Tim Duggan
- 05/01/2008
PCs are moving to multi-core as operating systems, applications and languages struggle to keep up.
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
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
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.