Danielle Ruest

Chapter 1 The Windows Server 2008 Delta Microsoft made some major inroads with the release of Windows Server 2003. This version of Windows Server became the flagship version, since it proved to be stable and reliable, and was available in a number of different configurations. It became even more reliable when Microsoft released version R2. […]

Microsoft is releasing another operating system (OS). This time, it is focused on the backend or the servers in your datacenter. Will it be like Windows Vista and hit the market running only to flop later on? No. Not this time. Windows Server is Microsoft’s most solid operating system and with Windows Server 2003, especially […]

With the advent of machine virtualization technologies such as VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure, Citrix XenServer, and Microsoft’s Hyper-V, IT pros are looking to new formats for server configurations. One of the most popular is the virtual appliance—the creation of a standard, configured virtual machine including specific applications. This article begins a series whose objective is to […]

When deploying new operating systems, most organizations try to achieve a single system standard and deploy that single standard to every system in the network. Organizations around the world use different techniques to achieve this, but all of them use a single deployment strategy: the system image. System images basically consist of the capture of […]