TechNet Magazine published this special online-only Green IT issue for IT Pros earlier this evening. The issue features a strong collection of new and archived articles, including: · Framework for Building a “Hyper-Green” Virtual Server System · Planning...

Tired of typing the phone numbers on a business card to your phone address book? Saw an advertisement of a new pizza delivery chain on a billboard while travelling, want to try it but can’t recall the address and phone number? Feeling too lazy to search...

In the next few posts, I am going to write about ways to automate configuration file updates using Powershell. The method described in the following posts can be used to update any xml file, including web.config files by passing the required values and...

Forgot to take IIS7 configuration backup, but want to restore back to a recent configuration? IIS7 makes it easy. Each time a change is detected by IIS7, it takes snapshot of ApplicationHost.config file and places it in %systemdrive%\inetpub\history folder...

SQL Server 2005/2008 provides a command line utility SQLCMD, which can be used to perform basic SQL operations using command prompt. This comes really handy when automating repeatedly used SQL operations. You don’t need to Open the Management Studio every...