On Friday, we presented the first installment of the "Top 10 Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008." Today is part two. These are technologies included in Windows 2008 that you may not have heard much about, but could make your life as a Windows IT pro a lot easier.
With Windows Server 2008, you can guess why GPO settings were set the way they were, or you can use the new comments and filtering.
- By Greg Shields
- 10/08/2007
Microsoft expects to release seven security patches with four "Critical" and three "Important" bulletins as part of its upcoming Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/04/2007
Microsoft yesterday announced the Get Genuine Windows Agreement.
- By Keith Ward and Michael Domingo
- 10/03/2007
XCOPY is the new SCOPY. Plus, disabling the trust password for a domain's workstations.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 10/02/2007
Use 'em if your org has completely migrated to Vista or Windows 2008. Otherwise, the older, 'sans X' format files work just as well.
- By Greg Shields
- 10/01/2007
Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft's first-ever server for home use, gets its first update today.
Isolating and solving memory errors is a snap with the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool.
Microsoft released several major updates for its Windows lineup today, including the first release candidate (RC) for Windows Server 2008 and the initial public beta for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/19/2007
Microsoft this week released a key update to its SOA-based middleware platform—BizTalk.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Chris Kanaracus
- 09/14/2007
Microsoft's update system is changing files on both Windows XP and Windows Vista -- even if a user disables automatic updates. Microsoft, however, calls it built-in behavior and no cause for alarm.
As expected, Microsoft's September "Patch Tuesday" update contains fewer security patches than in recent months -- four, to be exact.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/11/2007
Yesterday, Microsoft released the next component in its growing virtualization product line, announcing the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). General availability is expected in October.
Try this scriptless approach to getting information on group memberships.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/29/2007