This paper explains how with a community-driven development approach, enhancements are driven by a community of users, which means the system constantly improves in the exact way a user requires. Continue reading to learn the power of community-driven product enhancement. 

Explore the newest features in vSphere 5.0, and find out how this latest release from VMware builds upon previous versions to extend existing features and capabilities to improve your ability to upgrade, patch and maintain your hosts, virtual machine hardware and tools. 

Active Administrator™ is a comprehensive and proactive Active Directory management solution. Active Administrator provides four powerful integrated AD management features within one console, including centralized event auditing and reporting, back-up and recovery, Group Policy offline editing and rollback, and simplified delegation of AD rights. 

This paper provides use cases and primary technical benefits that can be achieved by deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere. 

Access this case study to learn how a hotel developed an application to help coordinates guest requests among employees for addressing things like getting new towels or replacing light bulbs. 

This paper examines how SharePoint 2010 is a sophisticated enterprise-level collaboration platform. Whether it’s creating wikis and micro-blogging, or document sharing and project management, SharePoint 2010 allows organizations to take collaboration to an entirely new level. 

This chapter sample, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, Willem Kasdorp as the contributing author and published by Wiley Publishing, summarizes the defining features of Windows Server 2008. 

In November 2008, Conficker A, the first of five variants of the malware, rapidly began infecting computers which had failed to install a Microsoft patch released just weeks earlier. In late December 2008, Conficker B added new mechanisms for distribution including USB storage devices. 

This webcast explores monitoring challenges that IT pros face.  Gain insight into how to streamline your processes and improve monitoring efficiency. This webcast explores driving forces behind the trend toward virtualization.  Learn how server enhancements and other improvements could factor into your organization’s virtualization decisions. 

This paper outlines the differences in features between ESX and ESXi and the architectural differences. It also discusses methods to manage both and how to modify existing scripts. 

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System enables companies to increase productivity in development environments and adopt cost-reducing strategies such as follow the sun.  Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate will give users more ways to achieve these improvements.