Admins seeking a secret weapon in Windows environments should look no further than network load balancing, an often underutilized capability built right into Windows Server, and one that’s easy to ...

Microsoft has released a Network Load Balancing hotfix for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 SP1 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Microsoft Application Center 2000. The hotfix package ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

When applications are aware of like-configured systems providing the same services, it is a beautiful thing. The most frequent example is a Web service that has a number of VMs providing the same Web ...

According to Microsoft, the widely popular Windows Live Hotmail Internet e-mail service first took a hit on Thursday, Dec. 30. Thousands of users reported logging into their accounts and noticing that ...

Hey all, I have a client site that is running Ex2010 SP1 on 2 multi-role VMs in a DAG, for about 400 mailboxes across two DBs. The VMs are also HA via Hyper-V cluster. Currently, VM1 is hosting the ...