May 2011Social media and social technologies are here to stay, so it’s up to you to determine how to make the most out of them.
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Microsoft Monthly Technet Utility Spotlight
Cloud Computing: Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud
May 2011In this first of a four part series, you’ll learn the definition of a Private Cloud, and how hosted Infrastructure as a Service can support that environment.
Editors Note: Build for the Cloud
May 2011With the continued focus on the cloud, we take a practical approach – looking at how to build a private cloud platform and other cumulus topics.
Virtualization: Hyper-V and High Availability
May 2011Using Hyper-V with Windows Server failover clustering gives you a high-availability cluster of physical and virtual machines.
Windows PowerShell: HTML Reports in PowerShell
May 2011You can actually use Microsoft Windows PowerShell cmdlets to generate HTML reports you can share with your colleagues.
Windows PowerShell: HTML Reports in PowerShell
May 2011You can actually use Microsoft Windows PowerShell cmdlets to generate HTML reports you can share with your colleagues.
Cloud Computing: Take Your Virtual Machines to the Cloud
May 2011Running virtual machines on Windows Azure combines the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing.
Utility Spotlight: Juggle Those Virtual Desktops
May 2011Having multiple virtual desktops running multiple applications and multiple files can get a bit confusing. The aptly-named Desktops app can help.
Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Security at the Edge
May 2011DoS and password brute-force attacks can be particularly nasty, but you can protect your network against these types of disruptions.
Geek of All Trades: Configure Remote Management with Server Manager
May 2011Remote Management wasn’t quite there with Windows Server 2008. It’s getting better with the R2 release, but you still have homework to do.
Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Provisioning Mechanisms
May 2011There are many ways to provision Lync Server, each with varying degrees of capability and flexibility. It’s important to be familiar with all of them.
Windows Confidential: Just What Is ‘Size on Disk’?
May 2011When you get the stats for the size of a folder, where, exactly, do those measurements come from?
Web Technologies: Can the Government Prevent a DDoS Attacks?
May 2011DDoS attacks are a part of life in the world of the Web. You will never be totally immune, but there are steps you can take to mitigate any threats.
The Business of IT: The Complexity Challenge
May 2011While our professional lives may become inexorably more complex, this affords greater opportunities to learn from each other.
Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals
May 2011The tools in this month’s toolbox help you protect your public-facing Web site, decipher error codes, and organize and remember your username/password combinations.
SQL Q&A: Dynamic Data and Disaster Recovery
May 2011This month’s solutions for SQL success run the gamut from expanding a tempdb and clustering a conundrum to half-baked disaster recovery plans.
Cloud Computing: Head off to the Cloud
May 2011Cloud Computing holds considerable promise and possibilities, but you will get much more out of the experience if you are prepared.
Geek of All Trades: Behind the Scenes with RDS
April 2011Our intrepid Geek of All Trades sits down with the authors of the Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit.
Utility Spotlight: Disable the Internet Explorer 9 Automatic Update
April 2011The Internet Explorer 9 Blocker Toolkit will help prevent any inadvertent installations of Microsoft’s latest browser.
SQL Server: Protect Data at All Costs
April 2011Maintaining high availability to corporate data stores managed with SQL Server is an essential element of any data management strategy.