Steve's blog provides the exact details.

Infrastructure Optimization (IO) serves as a gauge for IT organizations and provides a logical roadmap to progress from reactive to proactive IT service management. Essentially it is a framework to drive maturity in technology solutions and in the management...

Whilst working on a user provisioning solution with a customer, an interesting question arose. Now that the customer's AD has lots of useful information consolidated from HR, payroll and other systems, would it be possible to automatically create a standard...

For a limited period, some free e-books and online training courses is available at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/windowsserver2008/default.mspx . The overall Technet portal for Windows Server 2008 is at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/windowsserver...

The "Managing Exchange Messaging Services by Using Metrics" whitepaper is an excellent read for those wishing to adopt a more proactive and metric-driven approach for messaging service management. If you are adopting ITIL/MOF, or you just want a more...

I know many of you are aware of the Exchange Best Practice Analyzer. It's a fantastic tool, that really makes life easy for the Exchange administrator. Recently I was having problems with a SQL installation and stumbled across it's SQL equivalent. Just...

If you haven't yet made the shift to Office 2007 ( what's keeping you!! ), your users may be experiencing difficulties opening documents sent from users who have already made the shift. While its relatively easy to configure Office 2007 to save documents...