SQL Server 2008 Installation Strategies and Best Practices Part 2 of 5 Greetings, last week I initiated this blog series which focuses on best practices and installation strategies when deploying SQL ...

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database. The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default when ...

Windows Server Backup is available on all versions of Server 2008, including 64-bit versions. Install it as a feature via Server Manager, either interactively or with the following command: ...

Finally, late in February, shipping versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 made it into users' hands. I checked out a copy of Server 2008 Enterprise installed on our current server Editors' Choice, ...

Businesses that want to increase the stability and security of their information systems and extend the useful life of older hardware should take a good, hard look at Server Core, an installation ...

One of the slew of announcements at Microsoft's TechEd 2007 yesterday was the addition of another Server Core role for Windows Server 2008—that of Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7). For those ...