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So far in this article series, I have talked about the new printer management utilities included in Windows Server 2008, and shown you how to consolidate network print servers.  In this article, I want to conclude the series by showing you how to use group policies to deploy the network printers to network clients. Client…

In the previous article, I showed you how to install the Print Management console. In this article, I will continue the discussion by showing you how to migrate other network print servers to the  network print server that you’ve created. Network Printer Migration Now that you have an enterprise print management server in place, you…

E-mail has become a mission critical application within most organizations, so it has become common for upper level management to mandate a specific Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Exchange Server administrators. In case you are not familiar with the concept of an SLA, a SLA mandates the percentage of time that an application is available….

Disk quotas were originally introduced in Windows 2000, but have improved in each subsequent version of Windows. Of course these constant improvements mean that the way that this quotas are implemented have changed from one version of Windows to the next. In this article, I will show you how disk quota management works in Windows…

Because I write about technology for a living, it is extremely important to me that I keep my education current.  This means that I routinely travel all over the world to send various conferences, training sessions, and to visit various companies to see how the technology is being applied in a real world environment.  One…

So far in this article series I’ve shown you how to create a dedicated postmaster mailbox that can be used to intercept responses to non-delivery reports, and I wrote another article that discusses the meaning of various types of non-delivery reports.  If you read that article, you know that some types of nondelivery reports can…

Of all the features included in Microsoft Outlook, my favorite has to be cached mode.  In case you’re not familiar with cached mode, it is a mechanism that copies the contents of a user’s mailbox, calendar, etc. into an offline file called an “OST” file.  This allows the user to have full access to anything…

The Windows Performance Monitor has been around in one form or another since the days of Windows NT.  Even so, this is one tool that I rarely see anyone use in the real world.  I suspect that the reason for this is probably that the Performance Monitor tends to be both tedious and difficult to…

In the previous article in this series, I explained why I believe that performance monitoring is becoming more important now than it ever has been before.  I also showed you a quick trick for getting an idea of how your system’s resources are currently being used.  In this article, I want to continue the discussion…

In the second article in this series, I mentioned that one of the biggest improvements in performance monitoring was the addition of Data Collector Sets. Data Collector Sets are collections of performance monitor counters and system traces, that are all related to a specific purpose. In this article, I will show you how they work….