Articles tagged Sysadmin

Dr. Masha Petrova

Public Speaking 101 – Presenting for Your Audience

Continuing her campaign for better technical presentations, Dr. Masha Petrova now provides simple yet fundamental guidance to becoming a great speaker, in 3 easy steps....

28 May 2010 12 min read

Sean Duffy

Virtual Machine Storage Provisioning and Best Practises

If you're using virtualization technology, then at some point you'll have run out of (or will run out of) virtual disk space, leading to the...

14 May 2010 17 min read

Elie Bou Issa

An Introduction to Information Rights Management in Exchange 2010

If you're a Systems Administrator concerned about information security, you could do worse than implementing Microsoft's Information Rights Management system; especially if you already have...

06 May 2010 12 min read

Ben Lye

Troubleshooting Windows Blue Screen Errors

The so-called 'Blue Screen of Death' has inspired fear in the hearts of mere mortals, but Systems Administrators are expected be capable of casually beating...

06 May 2010 9 min read

Jonathan Medd

New Remoting Features in PowerShell 2.0

Eager to quell misinformation, Jonathan Medd points why PowerShell 2.0 is so much more than just super-charged SSH. He describes some new commands with full...

20 April 2010 16 min read

Dr. Masha Petrova

4 Geek Excuses for Bad Presentations

Frustrated by technically interesting yet agonizing conferences, Dr. Masha Petrova leaves geeks with no excuses for making bad presentations, and begins her campaign ensure that...

06 April 2010 8 min read

Elie Bou Issa

Getting Started with Active Directory Rights Management Services for Exchange 2010

With security concerns being a constant litany, it's worth considering Active Directory Rights Management Services as a powerful tool in your access-control arsenal, particularly when...

06 April 2010 13 min read

Brien Posey

Implementing Cluster Continuous Replication, Part 3

Cluster continuous replication (CCR) uses log shipping and failover to provide a more resilient email system with faster recovery. Once it is installed, a clustered...

12 March 2010 14 min read

Ben Lye

Troubleshooting Nonpaged and Paged Pool Errors in Windows

Ben Lye uncovered a memory leak in the nonpaged pool which was crashing his servers with disquieting regularity. Luckily it was relatively easy to troubleshoot,...

12 March 2010 6 min read

Matt Simmons

Unteachable Disaster Recovery Techniques

There are some skills which are extensions of your instincts, and which you can only learn though years of experience. Matt Simmons has this brought...

11 March 2010 5 min read

Jaap Wesselius

Hyper-V R2 Live Migration

Reliability is one of the great payoffs to virtualization, and failover clustering has got a whole lot better with Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Now,...

10 February 2010 11 min read

Johan Veldhuis

A Deep Dive into Transport Queues (Part 2)

Johan Veldhuis completes his 'Deep Dive' by plunging even deeper into the mysteries of MS Exchange's Transport queues that are used to temporarily store messages...

09 February 2010 14 min read

Jonathan Medd

Using VMware vCenter Update Manager to keep your vSphere Hosts Up-To-Date with Patching

The chore of patching operating systems and applications is taking an increasing proportion of the time of a system administrator, so it is a a...

09 February 2010 15 min read

Ben Lye

Active Directory Snapshots with Windows Server 2008

Snapshots are a useful feature of Windows Server 2008. Taking a snapshot of Active Directory as a scheduled task can prove to be a wise...

09 February 2010 7 min read

Dr. Masha Petrova

Social Networking at Professional Events

Dr. Masha Petrova compresses, into a small space, much good advice on networking with other professional people. She draws from her own experience as a...

14 January 2010 9 min read

Ben Lye

Regional Office Virtualization – Less Can Be More

The dream of an 'office in a box' has been around for years, but the increasing sophistication of virtualization software has turned the dream into...

14 January 2010 7 min read

Johan Veldhuis

A Deep Dive into Transport Queues – Part 1

Submission queues? Poison message queues? Johan Veldhuis unlocks the mysteries of MS Exchange's Transport queues that used to temporarily store messages waiting until they are...

12 January 2010 13 min read

Ben Lye

Customizing the Outlook Address Book

It is possible to change the fields in the Outlook address book to make them a better fit for your organisation. Exchange provides templates for...

17 December 2009 6 min read

Dr. Masha Petrova

The Art of Dealing with People

Technical people generally don't easily adapt to being good salespeople. When a technical person takes on a customer-facing role as a support engineer, there are...

15 December 2009 8 min read

Nirmal Sharma

Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 1

In the first of a series of articles on Hyper-V Networking, Nirmal explains Hyper-V networking and VLAN tagging, and shows how to set up a...

11 December 2009 14 min read