Take a look in your server room(s) and closet(s), as well as in the corners of your office – how many servers do you have? How did it ever get that way? Servers seem to pop up whenever your back is ...

What is the best practice when it comes to backup up a server that is a domain controller and a file server for a small office with 20 workstations. Should I even run a file server on a domain ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Years ago I started with just one Win 2000 server. I felt that the "right thing" to do before patching a server was to:<BR><BR>1) Backup the C: partition with Ghost or NTBackup [involves a ...

In an IT world full of elusive goals, there’s probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime. Keeping servers alive and awake, or at least ready to instantly spring into action ...

• Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...