Managing the display settings in Windows Server 2008’s Core Edition is a little less intuitive than its full install counterparts. This tip shows how to configure the screen saver timeout in the registry.
Microsoft recently released the third Community Technology Preview for PowerShell 2.0. Sporting a vast number of improvements, PowerShell 2.0 is shaping up to be a robust, reliable choice for administrators with enterprise-grade features critical in many organizations. Scott Lowe walks you through some of the highlights.
At the core, though, file serving–one of the original “killer-apps” that introduced networking to many an organization–still reigns supreme on the needs list of organizations and the reason why most servers are deployed. This entry looks at some of the tools you’ll use to administer shares in Windows Server 2008.
Windows Essentials Business Server 2008 is part if Microsoft’s new focus on the mid-market space. In this and in my next few postings, I’ll provide you with a look at this product, starting with an installation overview of each component. In this part, you’ll learn about the prerequisites portion of the installation.
For Windows Server 2008’s Core Edition, the default firewall configuration is one of the things most administrators want to turn off after installation. You can complete this task with one line of code, which you’ll want to add to your script arsenal.
PowerShell is an incredibly powerful scripting tool being included in just about all of Microsoft’s new products. With PowerShell, administrators can write scripts that just about completely manage all aspects of the software. PowerGUI, a free tool, is a great enhancement to PowerShell as it provides many of the benefits of a true development environment for those that want to quickly develop PowerShell scripts.
Microsoft clustering services on versions prior to Windows Server 2008 used a command line tool to fix drive issues. Windows Server 2008 puts this in the interface, making drive tasks more accessible.
If Windows Server 2008 isn’t part of your infrastructure in some capacity, get ready. But before getting too far into implementations, an automated build is the way to go. Here’s how.
Over the years, there have been very few changes in how we measure Windows performance. Windows Server 2008’s implementation of the Windows Reliability And Performance Monitor introduces new features to the venerable Perfmon tool.
In this week’s IT Leadership blog, Scott Lowe talks about some of the reasons you might consider VDI. Here, he’ll go over some of the ways by which a VDI implementation takes form.