Organizations are increasingly utilizing off-site workers and remote collaboration. This frequently causes communication to become impersonal and emotionless. Microsoft...
Compare Active Directory group membership with PowerShell
Lately it seems a number of people are trying to compare group membership between Active Directory groups. Often they...
Configure Exchange 2013 Internet mail flow during migration
As part of upgrading to Exchange 2013 from Exchange 2007/2010, we need to make sure that Exchange 2013 is...
PC Plus + time = PC – Windows
Gregg Keizer wrote an interesting article for Computerworld claiming that Microsoft faces computer makers' rebellion at CES by rolling...
In the first part of the article, I discussed how to recover a DAG when the primary data center...
An Active Directory site is stretched if it is spread across multiple sites. In this series of two posts,...
Windows couldn’t be activated – Error code 0x800732B – DNS name does not exist
This post explains how you can manually activate Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Enterprise and what it means if...
Convert MBR to GPT without data loss
Windows tools such as diskpart.exe or disk management can convert the partition schemes GUID Partition Table (GPT) and Master...
Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials – New cloud features
In my last post I covered the most interesting new general features of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. Today,...
3CX Phone System 12 review
3CX Phone System 12 is a Windows-based software IP-PBX that provides your company with best-in-class Unified Communications features.
PowerShell: Past, Present and Future
I’ve been using PowerShell from the very beginning, even when it was still called Monad. Like many of you,...
Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials – General new features
In today’s article I will summarize the most important new general features of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. My...
What’s new in MDOP 2013 R2
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) might seem like an oddball collection of products at first glance. But let...
HP Microserver Generation 8 review
I recently was looking for a suitable server for Windows Essentials Server 2012 R2 and after some research it...
ODM Direct Servers (cloud) market boosts while overall server sales decline
According to a press release of IDC, worldwide server market revenues declined by 3.7%, whereas the new category of...
Internet Explorer 10 / 11 in Windows 8 / 8.1: 32-bit or 64-bit, app or desktop
Internet Explorer reflects the two faces of Windows 8 more than no other application. It exists as an app...
What does the growth rate of Amazon’s cloud mean for IT pros?
There is only one adjective that fits when it comes to describing the growth of Amazon’s cloud: e-x-p-l-o-s-i-v-e.
Can a Surface RT 2 replace a laptop? Absolutely!
The Surface Pro gets all of the attention but its little brother packs a serious punch for a much...
Poll: Does your organization work with the public cloud?
In this poll, I would like to know if your organization runs production systems in Amazon’s cloud, Microsoft’s public...
Understanding workflow in SharePoint 2013
Microsoft made some significant changes to workflow in SharePoint Server 2013. Let's discover the differences between the SharePoint 2010...





