I have a Exchange 2010 and SPS 2010 farm running in the environment which has 3 AD DCs. 2 DCs are on Win2K3 and only 1 DC is running on Win2K8 (not R2). The Win2K8 DC has to be taken out of service.

I am just curious as to if you commission your servers in a formal process what is your process for formal decommission?<BR><BR>Our current retirement process is a long drawn out process of change ...

“Not all data center operations actively track the amount of energy use attributable to servers that aren't engaged in productive work, but the amount of energy and money wasted on non-productive ...

Managing a data decommissioning policy is a systematic approach to managing the series of steps through which IT assets must go at end-of-life. These policies are important, as records allow companies ...

Adding new virtual servers is a good time to audit host memory and compute to ensure each virtual machine gets enough of each. At the agency where I work we recently bought software products that ...