By Orin Thomas, 04/23/2012
Sherpa Software's Discovery Attender and Quest Software's Archive Manager go beyond the basic e-discovery functionality offered in Exchange Server 2010.
By Orin Thomas, 04/21/2012
If SQL Server's native tools aren't meeting your database backup and restore needs, there are alternative tools you can use. Here's a look at how backup solutions from Acronis, ...
By Orin Thomas, 03/20/2012
A major overhaul in the Microsoft System Center suite helps IT pros configure and manage applications, services, computers, and VMs.
By Orin Thomas, 02/22/2012
The capabilities of VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus go well beyond what's available in tools such as the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA).
By Orin Thomas, 01/18/2012
Use this new member of System Center to automate day-to-day systems administration tasks.
By Orin Thomas, 12/17/2011
Centralize—and improve—the management of privileged account passwords with this comprehensive tool, but be ready for a bit of culture shock.
By Thomas, Orin, 09/22/2011
The Dell KACE K2000 is a OS deployment appliance supports both Mac OS and Windows OS images.
By Orin Thomas, 02/07/2011
If you want to use application whitelisting as part of your organizational security strategy, and you’re looking for a product that offers more than Software Restriction Policies ...
By Orin Thomas, 03/23/2010
Use these tips to help find which updates have been deployed, prevent update traffic from saturating WAN links, prevent end-user interruptions, and establish a group of update ...
By Orin Thomas, 01/11/2010
Rather than trying to prove your theory about what has gone wrong correct when diagnosing a problem, try to prove your theory incorrect.
By Orin Thomas, 01/05/2010
You can configure Windows to help you deal with event log data and find events before they prove harmful.
By Orin Thomas, 12/24/2009
It has been suggested that the Solitaire application causes tens if not hundreds of hours of productivity to be lost across organizations on an annual basis. In this screencast ...
By Orin Thomas, 12/08/2009
Quick screencast showing how delegate reset password privilege on an OU
By Orin Thomas, 11/13/2009
Restricted groups policies allow you to control the membership of sensitive groups through Active Directory.
By Orin Thomas, 11/06/2009
By Orin Thomas, 10/15/2009
You can use BranchCache in branch offices rather than deploying another WSUS server for Windows 7 branch office clients.
By Orin Thomas, 10/03/2009
Google has released Chrome Frame to extend IE to support Google Wave. You can use group policy add-on management functionality if your organization wants to block this add-on.
By Orin Thomas, 09/23/2009
You would be amazed how many organizations forget to disable a fired admin's user account.
By Orin Thomas, 08/06/2009
One of the biggest pro-Firefox arguments that you’ll read on the Internet involves blocking advertising using Adblock Plus. Eventually all browsers will include this feature by ...
By Orin Thomas, 07/31/2009
Organizations should have a procedure in place to ensure that if they do need to let a systems administrator go, the amount of damage that can be done is minimized.