Microsoft gave notice this month that SharePoint Server 2010 has but two years of product support remaining, with the server reaching the end of "extended support" on Oct. 13, 2020. The notice, by ...

Like any computer or smartphone, performance is the number one indicator that it’s time to upgrade. If things are starting to ...

Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are approaching their scheduled end of life in 2023. As such, organizations need to begin considering how they are going to migrate away from Windows Server 2012 and ...

In my previous column, I explained how to perform a rolling upgrade on a clustered Hyper-V deployment, taking the servers from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016. Once this process has ...

After earlier detailing needed planning, Brien goes to the next step: an in-place upgrade of the Windows Server OS as it relates to AWS EC2. In my previous blog post in this series, I talked about ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

You are not alone if your databases are running on an older version of SQL server. Upgrading a database is a complex project that must be planned and executed ...