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... 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... 14 May 2010 17 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... 06 May 2010 9 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;... 06 May 2010 12 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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.... 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... 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... 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,... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 11 December 2009 14 min read
