Higher levels of availability have become all the rage. The days of service-level agreements (SLAs) with explicit definitions of RPO (recovery-point objectives) and RTO (recovery-time objectives) may ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

As locking down information becomes a more critical priority for IT organizations, securing individual files or shares is completely dependent on effectively setting up security groups. Because ...

If you are going to use Windows Server as a file server then it is a good idea to make use of the File Server Resource Manager. The File Server Resource Manager is a tool that was introduced in ...

Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

Today, Microsoft officially releases Windows Server 2012, the first of its latest wave of new operating systems. It shares a few things with the upcoming Windows 8 client operating system, including ...

From UEFI to full-disk encryption to improvements in IIS, Windows Server 2012's security features alone provide reason enough to upgrade With the shift to the new Metro user interface, a lot of people ...

Customers that haven't upgraded to Windows Server 2012 are either living in denial or under a rock. Those that don't migrate off Server 2003 face a range of consequences from security issues, no ...

Multi-cloud strategies were meant to save money and reduce risk, not multiply it. Today's CIOs face rising exposure, inconsistent... DHCP is vital for IP address allocation across networks, ensuring ...

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder. FileTables is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012. It's a ...