Organizations are seeking ways to reduce cost in IT operations on every possible way. One of the areas that seem promising is automation. In the past the only way to automate certain tasks were writing scripts to do certain tasks. However using scripts...

In the first part of this series I had an overview of Exchange migration which can be found here . In the second part of this series I provided details on how to check for inconsistencies on user attributes and set for UPN which can be found here ...

In the first part of this series I had an overview of Exchange migration which can be found here . In the second part of these series I will provide more about handling the transformation to UPN. When you decide to use e-mail addresses for your UPN...

Exchange migration has always been a topic of interest for organizations. As more and more organizations depend on Exchange as their core infrastructure downtime during upgrades have been noticeable by the clients and need detailed planning. When there...

So here are a couple of trends that will affect our lives for the near future: Processing Power: Computer processing power doubles every 18 months. We know this as Moore’s law. There are signs that this will slow for the coming years. ...

The idea of Internet of things is not new. It’s all about different devices being connected to Internet, not to provide information directly to a user but to consume or provide information about itself. For example a digital photo frame can use...

Some of you may have heard about ITIL and MOF and being a technical person processes and governance may not be that much appealing to you. You may have been thinking It’s only for large enterprises with lots of money and time to implement processes...

Some of you might not seen this announcement so I wanted to re-iterate the fact that Microsoft iscsi target is release to public. This is an important milestone as it shows virtualization is becoming one of the tools that can solve business problems like...

When there is a multi-component system, there may be cases where system is working partially. There are two basic classes of problems: · Functional Problems: These problems are where one or more parts of the systems are not providing the necessary...

Virtualization is seen as a magic wand in server world. What ever your problem, lets virtualize and consolidate and your problems will be gone. This is far from truth. When you look at applications runninng on servers most of them are not designed to...

When you want to do scalability testing for your terminal services (or Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2008 R2) you need some automation to make this easier. There is Remote Desktop Load Simulation Tool that you can use to test your environment...

As most of you are on holiday, I wanted to share some insights on home computers J . When you have more than one child like I do you always have competition for using the home computer. Competition is good as long as you have the necessary rules to...

If you have large distributed environments, you will have connected branches to your headquarters. More than a decade ago, these links had small bandwidth (around 64kbps) or even used X.25 like some of my customers. Generally links were unreliable and...

If you are providing services to Internet, you should be watching the trends on Internet. There are various web sites providing information. The one I want to mention here is ten questions Internet Execs should ask and answer . Who are your potential...

From time to time I meet customers that are using older operating systems that are not 64-bit. Before I go any further let me give you the perspective: · X86 Platform: This is the original PC platform that we used to use back in 1980’s...

When you have a web site where Money is changing hands, customer trust has upmost importance. The moment you loose trust you loose your customers. You will need to invest on your security strategy in a multi layered fashion. Here is a short list (not...

Internet is using myriad of network protocols, the most important one being IP or Internet Protocol. This is the layer in which network decides how to send a packet to a given destination. Currently we are using IPv4 which has been with us for quite some...

There is lots of thinking going on around how the cloud will change our lives. Some of the things done by IT professional today will be handled by the cloud in the coming years. So what can IT professionals do now so that they can be relevant to the business...

21th century will mainly be about embracing change. Organizations will need to adapt to change in market conditions. The faster an organization can change its products or services and generate income based on those services; more it will be likely to...

Kurumsal ortamlarda verimli çalışma değerlendirildiğinde, Internet üzerinden kullanılan haberleşme teknolojileri üzerinde kontrol uygulanması gündeme gelir. Bu işlem yönetici gözüyle bakıldığında çok basit gibi...

IIS Medya servisleri Windows Server 2008 ve Silverlight ile tamamen web tabanlı yeni bir Web Tv çözümü doğdu. Çözüm tamamen IIS tabanlı olduğundan IIS Medya servisleri adını aldı. Yayın yapılan teknoloji de Smooth...

Yayınlama hakkında genel bilgiler Yayının çevrilmesi yayın kalitesinin belirlenmesinde anahtar rolü oynar. Bazı içerikler orjinal formatında güzel görünürken, uygun filtreler kullanılmadan çevirim yapılırsa...

Internet ilk popüler olduğunda Internet’e bağlantı hızları yavaş olduğu için içinde bolca yazının olduğu, tek tük resimlerin olduğu sayfalar vardı. Sonra bant genişliği arttıkça önce resimler arttı ve daha hareketli...

Microsoft Türkiye'de Altyapı mimarı olarak çalışıyorum. Hem ürünler ve yeni teknolojilerle ilgili bilgileri, hem de işinizi kolaylaştıracak ipuçlarını önümüzdeki günlerde buradan sizlerle paylaşmayı ümit...