In an IT world full of elusive goals, there’s probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime. Keeping servers alive and awake, or at least ready to instantly spring into action ...

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Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Take a look in your server room(s) and closet(s), as well as in the corners of your office – how many servers do you have? How did it ever get that way? Servers seem to pop up whenever your back is ...

When it comes to recovery from an Exchange Server crash, failure, or database corruption, backups play an important role. So, it is important to define a proper backup and recovery strategy to ensure ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 goes further and contains something called the “Best Practices Analyzer,” which is not exactly one thing but a combination of things built around something called the BPA ...

I'm tasking my new hire with spinning up a new file server on the domain. It will be running Server 2019, and I'm looking for some best practices guides. It will be part of a DFS namespace and ...

I have my DHCP server (on Sonicwall) configured to give out the domain controller/DNS server ip as primary DNS, for secondary DNS I have set to give out 1.1.1.1, for tertiary 8.8.4.4 Does this comply ...