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If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the “dirty little secrets” listed below may surprise you because we don’t usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you’ve probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to […]

When you need to reboot a Windows server, you’ll occasionally encounter obstacles to making that happen. For instance, if remote desktop services aren’t working, how can you reboot the server? Here is a list of tricks I’ve collected over the years for rebooting or shutting down a system when I can’t simply go to the […]

One of the single most important aspects of a computer, from an administrative standpoint, is the ability to handle administration remotely. Nearly every operating system offers tools for such a task, but what do you do when you want to go cross-platform? The best bet is VNC (Virtual Network Computing). If you are connecting to […]

During an interesting conversation with a publisher of technical books, they expressed their dismay at the lack of success for titles focused on the Microsoft .NET platform. I was surprised by their thoughts behind the poor sales; they cited the abundance of freely available information (especially from Microsoft) as the main issue. The publisher’s observation […]

May’s Patch Tuesday didn’t just mean seven critical security bulletins for admins to worry about — it also welcomed some of Redmond’s newer products, including Office 2007 and Exchange 2007, to the process. While six of the updates address remote code execution threats — the remaining is a cumulative update for IE — most are […]

During the first half of the ’90s, Microsoft almost single-handedly ushered in the graphical user interface on the PC, as Windows became the de facto OS and its GUI became the default interface for new corporate applications. But two opposing forces, occurring simultaneously, created a “perfect storm” that threatened to wash Microsoft out of its […]

Chances are, you’re probably using your network for more than just file and print services. Almost all organizations use some form of e-mail or workgroup collaboration software. In Windows server environments, one of the most popular e-mail packages is Microsoft Exchange. As you probably know, Microsoft recently released the newest version of Exchange—Exchange 2000. If […]

A Microsoft Security Intelligence report shows that malware persisted to dominate above all other threats in Q3 and Q4 of 2009, as trojans were the most common variety of threat – according to data from over 500 million computers worldwide via Microsoft security products. Best online Microsoft MCTS Training, Microsoft MCITP Certification at certkingdom.com Microsoft […]

Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold. High-performance computing once required massive, expensive, exotic machines from companies such as Cray, but the field is being remade by the arrival of clusters of low-end machines. While the trend […]