Windows Server 2012 R2 is the right choice for most IT organizations to keep their data center operating optimally and securely After July 14, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates for any ...

Leon Erlanger is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology and is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. School districts have been busy coping with the end ...

When it comes to adopting new operating systems and applications, common practice among system administrators is to delay adoption until the release of the first service pack. Admins found plenty of ...

Microsoft first introduced the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) as a way to migrate from Windows NT to Window 2000. Since shipping Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has made some changes to the ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Tick. Tick. Tick. That’s the sound of July ...

The good folks at Symantec sent me some information about their recently-released Windows Server 2012 Migration/Virtualization Survey. After reading through the study findings, I am impressed by how ...

Solution providers won't be retiring early on the revenue they bring in from Windows Server 2003 migrations alone, but the smart ones will mint a fortune. Microsoft channel partners say they are ...

Microsoft will end support for Windows Server 2003 on July 14. Experts estimate that 23.8 million total instances of the operating system are running on both physical and virtual servers. Those that ...

At the recent ChefCon conference in London, automation software provider Chef wowed delegates with a demonstration of its Habitat application configuration tool, which it claimed could migrate a ...

Deadlines have a way of getting your attention. On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft will stop providing security updates for Windows Server 2008, almost nine years after the last major update to the ...

In the midst of a massive datacenter consolidation, a techie discovers that the devil is in the details when dealing with a problem server At the time of this story, I was involved with a huge ...