Servers are complicated machines, requiring cool rooms and regular updates and maintenance to run properly. The problem is, many IT departments are understaffed, and adding server management on top of ...

The web-based UI for managing all aspects of Windows Server, Windows Server Admin Center (WAC) sure has grown up a lot in the last seven years. If you're new to the concept, you can run WAC on a ...

The need to reduce the complexity of IT infrastructure management remains a priority on every IT manager’s agenda. One of the most prominent open standards addressing that need, Intelligent Platform ...

Brien Posey shows how to configure Microsoft's tool for auto discovery and the management of IP addresses, which can improve administration of Group Policies. One of the new features Microsoft gave us ...

Microsoft's emerging Server Management Tools (SMT) suite now supports Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, the company announced on Wednesday. SMT includes a collection of familiar tools ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Remote monitoring and management ...

What do you use for Hyper-V administration? I bet it's a combination of a GUI (Hyper-V Manager, Failover Cluster Manager, perhaps System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)) and command line ...

Microsoft has revealed some details about what's next for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Customers should expect multiple SSMS releases soon. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the tool of ...

The latest version has reached general availability a few months after the release of v18.4. It brings a bunch of new features and general bug fixes, along with more specific improvements. In November ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

The Group Policy Management Console -- also known as the GPMC or Group Policy Management Editor -- is used to configure permissions and settings in Windows Server 2008. It is one of the easiest ways ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...