DHCP Failover with Microsoft Server 2012 R2 27 May 2014 Scott D. Lowe

This article looks at Windows Server 2012 R2 DHCP failover for Microsoft DHCP scopes.

Building a Private Cloud With System Center 2012 (Part 11) 22 May 2014 Brien M. Posey

This article concludes the private cloud series by explaining how to allow users to perform self service VM deployments and how administrators can place limits on self service provisioning.

Wi-Fi Network Design Tips 20 May 2014 Eric Geier

Designing and deploying a wireless network is much different than with wired networks. Transferring data via the airwaves brings up added security and performance concerns. Here I’ll share some tips you’ll find useful during the planning, installation, configuration, and maintenance phases of a Wi-Fi deployment.

Provisioning Virtual Machine Clouds with Windows Azure Pack (Part 1) 15 May 2014 Mitch Tulloch

This first article in a short series of articles on provisioning virtual machine clouds with Windows Azure Pack walks you through how to use the Best Practices Analyzer to validate your Windows Azure Pack deployment.

Is Windows 8.1 finally ready for corporate prime time? (Part 2) 13 May 2014 Deb Shinder

In this article we'll look at some of the tweaks that Microsoft has made to Windows 8 to make the OS more business-friendly.