Microsoft has rolled out a limited public preview of a Windows Azure-based disaster recovery solution for private clouds. The service brings together capabilities associated with Windows Server 2012 ...

Some of these assumptions are perfectly valid for most situations, but others -- despite Microsoft's best intentions -- are a bit more puzzling. Microsoft offers three separate tools for interacting ...

The burdens of managing security permissions are rarely seen as exciting, but they're an essential duty to which we systems administrators are sworn to carry out. In this tip, I'll talk about how you ...

In an effort to leverage good ol’ Windows passthrough authentication, I created an account on my Vista machine and another account with identical credentials on my Server machine… then I fired up ...

It may seem a bit odd to discuss power management in the context of Hyper-V. After all, virtual servers run on virtual hardware. Even so, power and cooling costs can account for a big chunk of the IT ...

How would you like to manage all your virtual machines (VM)s and hypervisors across multiple cloud platforms from one interface? What's that you say? You'd love that ...

Hyper-V comes with its own manager, but System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 may be what your VMs really need This week I’m at the Connections conference in Las Vegas, and the buzz is all about ...