TechNet Magazine: May 2013

By Lafe Low

For years, we’ve all heard the mantra, “Do more with less.” No one has the budget for a massive rip-and-replace type of upgrade anymore. You’ve got to make the most of what you already have available. When making a move to virtualization—and, more specifically, to Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0—you can do so with commodity or existing hardware.

Featured Articles

	Cloud Computing: Cloud mergers and acquisitions By Jonathan S. Marashlian, and Allison D. Rule There can be sales taxes and government fees associated with the mergers and acquisitions of cloud computing services.
	Windows 8: Go mobile with Windows 8 By Billy Anders Many of the improvements made to Windows 8 are designed to streamline and help you manage mobile connectivity.
	SharePoint 2010: Grow your SharePoint farm By Steve Wright, and Corey Erkes SharePoint includes a number of tools and management interfaces for configuring and managing your SharePoint farm.
	Virtualization: Run Hyper-V on commodity hardware By Brien M. Posey You don’t need high-end hardware to run Hyper-V. When properly configured, you can run Hyper-V on mere mortal machines.
	Virtualization: The benefits of VDI By Jorge Orchilles Using virtual desktop infrastructure can give you a degree of flexibility and ease of management using limited resources.
	IIS: Enable IIS remote management By Jason Helmick You can use Windows PowerShell remoting to expedite enabling remote management from a remote server.
	IT Management: Capacity planning By Ryan Haveson You need a data-driven system to perform effective and accurate capacity planning for project workloads.
	IT Management: IT events: community, content, commerce By Romi Mahajan Trade shows and other gatherings of IT professionals provide a forum for sharing ideas and developing a sense of community.

Columns

Windows Confidential:
Once bitten, twice shy
By Raymond Chen

You have to be careful what you include in your default links history, because it may inadvertently cause problems.

Utility Spotlight:
Manage and update Internet Explorer 10
Lance Whitney

You can use the Internet Explorer Administration Kit or Group Policy to control and modify settings in Internet Explorer 10.

Windows PowerShell:
Workflow activities in depth
By Don Jones

Each month this year, Don Jones will present an installment in a 12-part tutorial on Windows PowerShell Workflow. We encourage you to read through the series in order, beginning with the January 2013 column.

Toolbox:
New products for IT professionals
By Greg Steen

These two systems-monitoring products give you a sweeping view of network operations, right down to system-level details.

Geek of All Trades:
Certificates made easy: part 2
By Greg Shields

You can create and provision custom certificates relatively easily following this process.

SQL Q&A:
Keep your data manageable
By Paul S. Randal

This month, our SQL Server columnist helps readers parse through differing data, develop strategy and manage data with filegroups.

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