December 19, 2008 8:55 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
awareness,
DataCenter,
design,
environment,
facility,
facility management,
hardware,
Microsoft Windows,
Monitoring,
Performance,
power management,
tools,
Vista,
XPMicrosoft has a special section of their website dedicated to fostering environmental sustainability. To that end, they have released a product called Edison PC Power Management software. The application will...
December 10, 2008 2:41 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
awareness,
design,
documentation,
education,
howto,
IT education,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Windows,
planning,
toolkit,
toolsMicrosoft has become much better offering documentation beyond just marketing materials about their products and systems. The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline...
December 4, 2008 6:54 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
design,
hardware,
IBM,
Linux,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Windows,
reporting,
VirtualizationMany IT trade publications are reporting that IBM is launching alternative to Microsoft-centric software and the bloated hardware required by recent operating system releases.
The Virtual Linux Desktop ranges in price from $59 to $289 per user, depending on level of software and service desired,...
December 1, 2008 7:40 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
analysis,
design,
education,
howto,
IT education,
Microsoft Windows,
Monitoring,
Networking,
Performance,
Policy,
server,
troubleshootingFor those of you considering using Microsoft Windows Server 2008, you might want to check out this TechNet Virtual Lab:...
November 24, 2008 7:43 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
design,
documentation,
facility management,
howto,
Metrics,
Monitoring,
network analysis,
Networking,
Performance,
performance monitoring,
reporting,
threshold,
toolkit,
tools,
troubleshootingIf you have not begun the process of documenting your network, then please begin as soon as you finish reading my first posting on Tools for documentation - screen...
November 18, 2008 1:15 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
CIO,
DataCenter,
design,
Development,
email,
Exchange,
Exchange 2007,
howto,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Windows,
tools
November 17, 2008 7:44 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
Cisco,
DataCenter,
design,
diagnostics,
IP telephony,
PSTN,
risk,
unified communications,
VoIP,
vulnerabilityAs you may have seen in some of my previous posts the company I work for has implemented VOIP/IP telephony at some of our locations.
VOIP - IPT - QOS - COS on and on - Oh...
November 11, 2008 4:07 PM
Posted by: Troy Tate
administration,
analysis,
awareness,
debugging,
design,
Development,
diagnostics,
howto,
internet,
LAN,
Metrics,
Microsoft Windows,
Monitoring,
MOSS,
network analysis,
Networking,
Performance,
performance monitoring,
reporting,
SharePoint,
toolkit,
tools,
troubleshooting,
WANMany organizations are finding value in the Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Whether you use the free Windows SharePoint Services or the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, your organization will gain a lot of value from using these services. To enhance your ability to manage these technologies,...
