Brien Posey

Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) really improves an administrator’s ability to manage virtual machines in the enterprise. In this article, Brien Posey shows you how to install this handy management tool.

In the midst of the current economic situation, it may be more important than ever to keep close tabs on IT spending. Unfortunately though, deploying an Exchange Server organization is rarely cheap. In this article, Brien Posey explains why this is the case, and talks about some of the things that you can do to reduce the cost of your deployment.

In an effort to atone for Windows Vista’s excessive resource consumption, Microsoft has designed Windows 7 to perform better than Vista on comparable hardware. Even so, Brien Posey explains that there are still things that you can do to improve the way that Windows 7 performs.

In the first part of this article series, I talked about a few of the things that you should do to begin planning for an eventual migration to Exchange Server 2007. In this article I want to conclude the series by discussing some other aspects to the planning process. Prepare the Active Directory Exchange Server…

We’ve all heard that the difference between a successful Exchange 2007 migration and a disaster is planning. That being the case, I wanted to take the opportunity to write about the types of issues that you need to think about planning for prior to a migration. Assessing the Exchange Features that Your Organization Needs Generally…

Lately, I have had a lot of people contacting me because they are interested in bringing Exchange 2007 into an existing Exchange Server organization. The topic has become so popular that I spent last week in Las Vegas speaking on the topic. After my presentations, one of the questions that kept coming up is how…

According to all of Microsoft‘s marketing hype, one of the goals of the secure computing initiative is to make server secure by default. I would have to agree that the newer Microsoft products tend to be more secure while running a default set up than the product from even a few years ago were. Even…

Many years ago, I used to work in the help desk for a large company. At that time, group policies simply did not exist, and there was no way of locking down Windows or a user’s applications. What I found is that many times the problems that users reported with their systems were directly to…

In the first article in this series, I talked about the edge transport server’s role within an Exchange server organization, and I talked about the firewall port requirements associated with an edge transport server. In this article, I want to conclude the discussion by talking about some more techniques that you can use to ensure…

Although the thought of saving money on Exchange 2007 deployment costs is tantalizing, the money that you save may not be such a bargain if the Exchange organization’s performance suffers as a result of the shortcuts that you have taken. In this article, Brien Posey shows you how to estimate the impact of consolidating your Exchange servers.