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Tech Tips
Welcome to our Tech Tips section, where the expert authors of Realtime Publishers share tips and insights into the newest IT topics and technologies. We are building the Tech Tips area out to include a number of different topical areas. We encourage you to suggest any IT topic for Tech Tips to cover. Simply email us at techtips@realtimepublishers.net
Active Directory
- VIDEO - How to Restore User Accounts and Entire OUs with the Active Directory Recycle Bin
- How to Upgrade Your Active Directory Domain to Windows Server 2008 R2
- How to Speed Up Adding Machines to Your Domain with Offline Domain Join
- How to Give Different Access to Smart Card Logins Using AD's Authentication Mechanism Assurance
- How to Get Rid of Service Account Password Problems with Managed Service Accounts
- Automating Software Deployment for the Small IT Shop - Part Two
- How to Eliminate Service Account Password Problems with Managed Service Accounts
Application Code Quality
- Quality, For Its Own Sake, Is Pointless
- How to Make Performance a Real Part of Code Quality
- How to Create a Good Set of Application Requirements Without Spending Forever Doing So
- Five Tips for Catching ALL of the Bugs in Your Code
- A Crash Course In Code Metrics
Application Performance Management
- What You Should Know About Application Performance Management - Part 2
- What You Should Know About Application Performance Management - Part 1
- Getting Your Application Performance Perspective Out of the Data Center
Application Virtualization
- Part 4 - Applications that Are Cloud Ready
- Part 3 - Methods of Application Virtualization
- Part 2 - Rethinking Application Management
- Part 1 - What Is Application Virtualization
Cloud Computing
- Top Challenges in Cloud Computing
- Overlooked Financial Advantages of Cloud Computing
- Monitoring Hybrid IT
- Let Us Define Cloud Computing
- Determining the Best Cloud Computing Provider
- Cloud Computing is Not Just for Web Sites
- A Definition of Hybrid IT, and Some of Its Challenges
Data Warehousing
- Why Is OLAP Faster Than OLTP
- When Would I Want a Data Warehouse Versus a Data Mart
- What Are Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Analysis
- Is There an Easy Way to Get a Data Warehouse
- How and Why Is Microsoft Excel Used in Data Warehousing
- How Is a Data Warehouse Really Different from a Normal Database
Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Solidifying Your Backup and Recovery Strategy for SQL Server
- How to Configure a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster with Windows PowerShell
- How to Configure Data Mirroring in SQL Server 2008 with Windows PowerShell
- Designing for Disaster Recovery with Exchange
Eliminating Administrator Privileges
- Why Eliminating Administrator Privileges Is So Difficult
- Using Over-The-Shoulder Elevation to Eliminate Administrator Privileges
- Tactics in Using UAC for Eliminating Administrator Rights
- Opinion - Why UAC Sucks and Why UAC Is Awesome
- Justifying the Effort to Eliminate Administrator Privileges
Group Policy
- What Are the Differences Between Group Policy and Group Policy Preferences
- Using Group Policy Preferences to Control Software Settings
- Creating, Targeting, and Applying Group Policy Preferences
How to Create a Single-Server Hyper-V VDI Solution for Essentially Zero Cost
- Part 3 - VIDEO - Creating the Pool and Other Helpful Tips
- Part 2 - Creating Your Virtual Desktop Reference Image
- Part 1 - Microsoft's VDI Is Better Than You Would Think
IT Monitoring
- Virtual Environment Monitoring Is an Absolute Must-Have
- Understanding Computer-to-Computer Conversations with Transaction Monitoring
- System Performance Monitoring - Where PerfMon Fails
- Service-Centric Monitoring to Pull It All Together
- Network Monitoring - Keeping Tabs on Your Datacenters Backbone
- IT Monitoring - Technology You Should Already Have in Place
- Event Log Monitoring Without Using the Event Log
- End User Experience Monitoring - Performance at the Highest Level
- Deep Application Monitoring for Peering into App Behaviors
MS Reporting Services
- Expanding Microsoft Reporting Services Implementation Within the Enterprise - Part 2 - Reporting Services
- Expanding Microsoft Reporting Services Implementation Within the Enterprise - Part 1 - The Silent Service
Managed File Transfer
- Solutions for Managed File Transfer
- Securing Ad Hoc File Transfers
- Impacts of Regulation
- File Transfers Hidden Perils
- File Transfer-as-a-Service Solutions
- Consolidating File Transfer Logging
- Classifying the Many Mechanisms of File Transfer
MySQL
Network Management
- Improve Network Performance with Real-Time Flow Visibility
- Automate and Update Network Documentation with Ease
Open Letter to the CEO
- Part 5 - How to Realign Your IT Department With Your Business Goals
- Part 4 - Your IT Department Does Not Understand Its Processes
- Part 3 - Your IT Department Does Not Understand Its Priorities
- Part 2 - How Is Your IT Department Misaligned With Your Business
- Part 1 - Your IT Department Is Killing Your Business
PowerShell
Reducing Data Center Costs
- Tip 9 - Achieve Near-Immediate Return on Infrastructure Monitoring
- Tip 8 - Harvest OS Licenses by Virtualizing Everything
- Tip 7 - Optimize Bandwidth Rather than Grow It
- Tip 6 - Shift to a Multiple-Hypervisor Approach or Virtual Servers
- Tip 5 - Outsource to the Cloud
- Tip 4 - Install a Basic NAP Infrastructure to Protect your Network and Enforce Policies
- Tip 3 - Make Your User Profiles Portable
- Tip 2 - Software Inventory and Metering
- Tip 1 - Reduce Power Consumption with Group Policy
- Tip 10 - Turn Up the Thermostat in Your Data Center
SharePoint 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services - High-Level Walkthrough
- Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services
Software Deployment
- Automating Software Deployment for the Small IT Shop - Part Two
- Automating Software Deployment for the Small IT Shop - Part One
Terminal Services in the Small Environment
- Part 9 - Licenses - Domain, Forest, or Workgroup
- Part 8 - Licenses - Per User or Per Device
- Part 7 - Positioning Terminal Servers
- Part 6 - Determining Anticipated User Load
- Part 5 - When to Use and Not Use Terminal Services
- Part 4 - Terminal Services - Introducting the Five Role Services
- Part 3 - Terminal Services - The RDC Client
- Part 32 - Creating and Installing an MSI File
- Part 31 - Creating an RDP File
- Part 30 - Terminal Services RemoteApp Manager - Creating RemoteApps and Remote Content
- Part 2 - Terminal Services - Sessioning and RDP
- Part 29 - Desktops vs. Terminal Services RemoteApps
- Part 28 - Quotas and Profiles
- Part 27 - Installing UPHClean
- Part 26 - Configuring Terminal Services Roaming Profiles
- Part 25 - User Profiles and Terminal Services
- Part 24 - Terminal Services Licensing - Sanity Checks
- Part 23 - Terminal Services Licensing - Activating and Adding Licenses
- Part 22 - Terminal Services Licensing - Adding the TS Licensing Role Service
- Part 21 - Terminal Services Manager
- Part 20 - Using RDC to Connect to a Remote Desktop
- Part 1 - The History of Terminal Services
- Part 19 - Configuring the RDP-TCP Connection
- Part 18 - Terminal Services Configuration
- Part 17 - Apps with Mid-Install Reboots
- Part 16 - Install Mode and Execute Mode
- Part 15 - Installing Your First Application
- Part 14 - Network Level Authentication
- Part 13 - Installing Terminal Services onto Your First Server
- Part 12 - A Few Large Servers or Many Small Servers
- Part 11 - Apps to Host, Apps Not to Host
- Part 10 - Making the Choice - Terminal Services vs Citrix
- Part 15 - Installing Your First Application