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Dec 29 2008
Protecting the confidentiality and integrity of data is an ongoing challenge for all companies. Files are inadvertently printed and left on the printer or forwarded outside of the company. A great security feature available with Windows Server 2003 and improved in Windows Server 2008 is Rights Management Services (RMS). Now called Active Directory Rights Management Services, RMS allows companies to provide security over files wherever they may be.
Dec 22 2008
Virtualization can offer incredible advantages to your infrastructure. A server consolidation project can greatly increase the efficiency of your physical servers which routinely run between 3 and 10 percent utilization (what a waste!). It can also provide cost savings in reduced cooling and power requirements. Add in time savings for your IT department to provision new servers and the increased availability using High Availability (HA) capabilities and you are looking at a no-brainer.
Dec 17 2008
I have been working quite a bit recently with Microsoft’s backup solution, System Center Data Protection Manager, and wanted to share the process for recovering a mailbox from an Exchange Server 2007 Information Store.
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Dec 10 2008
This is installment number three in my VDI “myth-buster” series. These are based on real conversations and exposure to VMware environments where I’ve worked. There isn’t anything magical about virtualization or VDI. It is cool technology, but as I’ve already covered, it won’t solve your server management headaches. It also won’t solve your desktop deployment problems.
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Dec 05 2008
The next major training module was on business continuity and data protection. This module taught us how to properly configure High Availability clusters, snapshots and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB). The VMware Consolidated Backup module was all command line based; usually the backup software vendor has already configured the scripts. The instructor actually suggested using a third-party Virtual Machine backup tool, not VCB.