If you’re a large organization, somewhere in the bowels of the IT department is “The Database”. It doesn’t matter what kind of database server it runs on, maybe it’s SQL Server, maybe it’s MySQL, but The Database has something big in it – the output of that exhaustive customer survey you did, or the company’s complete sales history back to 1986. But whatever it is, it has gobs of data, and you likely have no idea what’s in it.
Read moreOn September 26, 2016, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Server 2016. We already have a taste of what the user interface looks like from Windows 10. In actuality, there are a few other features that Windows 10 picked up first, such as PowerShell 5.0 and the latest version of Hyper-V, that are also part of Windows Server 2016. Many other heavy-hitting server-only features will be here soon.
Read moreMicrosoft’s Hyper-V product got its start in 2006 with the release of Windows Server 2008 R1. Over the next several generations of the Windows operating system, Hyper-V has matured greatly to become a true competitor in the hypervisor marketplace. Hyper-V has been updated with many new features and enhanced capabilities in Windows Server 2016.
Read moreFor the last four years I have attended Microsoft’s big conference for IT professionals. It used to be called TechEd and for the last two years it has been combined with a few other conferences and goes by Ignite. This is the biggest conference that Microsoft sponsors for IT professionals (and according to Microsoft it is the biggest tech conference in the world) so it always offers insights into where Microsoft is going.
Read moreMany people who are new to Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager are surprised to learn that there is more than one management interface, namely the Service Manager Console. Some more experienced people would tell you that there are three management interfaces to Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager. We’ll discuss those shortly. In reality, there are more than three management interfaces. But many people don’t know about more than one or three.
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