In less than two months, we will be at Microsoft Ignite! We invite you to stop by booth #1210 and meet the staff. But not before getting to know a little more about a few members of our booth staff first. Have other questions for them? Ask in the comment…

Change Auditor now supports Client Certificate Authentication. This is a welcome feature for administrator who prefer a more secure method of Authenticating users connecting with the web client. Introducing Client Certificate Authentication in the client…

Co-written with Priscilla Tenggara.

When it comes to Pokémon Go horror stories, we’ve heard it all - from trespassing, to injuries, to even robberies. It seems like the risk to users has no limit. Whether or not it’s intentional, users gaining access…

Many administrators work with GPO’s every day to make user and PC management easier however, the very same feature that makes one aspect of managing Active Directory easier can become cumbersome itself. GPOADmin is the best platform for managing…

As a database developer or DBA, you’ve lacked the proper tools to help you keep pace with the rest of your organization. You’ve watched your app-developing colleagues across the hall use agile to whiz through product releases and embrace DevOps to automate…

After 112 years, golf is again an Olympic sport. Before that, it was part of the program only in Paris 1900 and St Louis 1904. 112 years without golf, the last 4 major winners have been major winners for the first time ever, golf is at an all-time high…

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

I was raised fifteen miles west of Concord, Massachusetts. More specifically, I was raised 14.9 miles west of Walden Pond and the…

In this blog post, I’ll approach some issues pertaining to Data Protection | Rapid Recovery virtual standby machines. It is a subject that requires some groundwork to be properly approached. So, without further ado, let’s begin!

Rapid Recovery…

The cloud: the final frontier. These are the voyages of your enterprise. Its mission: to explore strange new technologies, to seek out innovation, to boldly go where your organization has never gone before.

I hope you’re as excited about the new Star…

Time is one of the scarcest resources in any kind of organization and we, as virtual systems administrators, are also affected by it. New tasks appear every day, our clients (internal and external) become more and more demanding, technology keeps on developing…

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Capacity management in your virtual environment is a balancing act.

Take the two athletes in the photo, for example. The one on the left can represent the unlimited desires of the business – the workload on the virtual machine – and the…

Auditing an application of its users’ activities can be useful and at times a mandatory task in tightly-secured environments. Spotlight has many robust capabilities such as deleting or disabling connections to changing alarm threshold values or stopping…

Let’s face it: We can’t all be the kind of hero who saves the world. But as a database administrator, if you could simplify database migrations and upgrades in your company, wouldn’t that make you a hero with your users and co-workers?…

SharePlex 9.0 is the most exciting and feature rich release of SharePlex I’ve ever been a part of.

Our frenemies over at Oracle with GoldenGate have been working to create fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) about the future of SharePlex by telling…

The Association of Support Professionals (ASP) has announced the winners of its “Ten Best Web Support Sites” competition that showcases excellence in online service and support

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As you know, time is your…

New Windows 10 features are getting ink in the tech press, but it’s Windows 10 security that’s top of mind for most system administrators.

When we conducted a webcast called Under the Hood with Windows 10 Security, more than 2,300 sysadmins…

To understand why Change Auditor for Exchange requires the Exchange Scripting Agent, it is important to understand the function of the Exchange Scripting Agent.

The Scripting Agent is called (if enabled) when a cmdlet runs on an Exchange server. This…

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How do you handle capacity management in your virtual environment?

If you find yourself frantically trying to keep an eye on VM density, disk space, service levels, resource utilization and – gulp – zombie VMs…

In my previous blog post, Our Communities Are Moving, you read about our plan to move our Systems and Information Management (SIM) communities starting with the Blog in July.  We are happy to announce that our new Community and Blog are now available…

Comic-Con 2016 is nearly upon us, the annual July pilgrimage when thousands of out-and-proud nerds, geeks and fanboys/girls gather in San Diego to celebrate their favorite superheroes, anti-heroes and unrepentant villains. When, for one long weekend…

One of the more common areas of inquiry from organizations planning their Office 365 migration strategy relates to large mailboxes and how they should be converted. These concerns typically arise in the form of two questions:

1)  What can we do during the…

Last year, the Quest team arrived in Chicago for Microsoft Ignite. While most folks on my team attended a few Microsoft events in the past, I did not know what to expect. Once I arrived to the event, I quickly submitted to the excitement of it all.