One of the most useful features in Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product is its reporting engine. Even though there is nothing overly difficult about its installation process, ...

This posting is 1 of a monthlong series of postings on the Microsoft System Center family of products. This is an excerpt from my book “System Center Enterprise ...

This appendix documents the various manual procedures for creating the Configuration Manager PL/SQL packages, as well as configuring and deconfiguring Oracle WebServer 2.1 and Oracle Web Application ...

In the age of big data, efficiently managing relational databases, particularly SQL Server, may be the single most important issue facing a growing number of CIOs and data center managers. Throughout ...

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. is pushing to make its SQL Server database more attractive to corporate users by simplifying its configuration and management while beefing up its scalability. To that end, ...

This installment begins a five-part series by contributing editor Greg Shields and will take a hard look at Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 operating system, also commonly known as "Longhorn.