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Cloud Director  

Once you start putting services in Azure cloud, you might want to add an Active Directory domain controller.

Easy Livin'  

PowerCLI in the current version 6 R3 supports access to nearly all VMware data center and cloud products with around 500 cmdlets, including numerous additional features, APIs, and interfaces. In this article, we show you the most important innovations.

Safely Stored  

Passwords should be safe, but easy to remember – a contradiction that can be difficult to resolve. One remedy is a password manager that stores all passwords centrally. The open source tip this month shows a different approach: FreeIPA.

Cosmopolitan  

One of the biggest hurdles for prospective Linux administrators is a lack of standards for configuring systems based on different Linux distributions. The Open Linux Management Infrastructure – OpenLMI – is looking to establish and define a standard approach to configuring such systems.

Accountant  

As IT infrastructure grows more complex, IT asset management tools become essential. They track an IT asset's life cycle from the purchase order, through practical usage, to disposal or reuse. One promising newcomer is Ralph, the open source specialist tool.

Velocity Sensor  

A good monitoring solution must provide information about applications and their performance. We show you how to monitor a database using openITCOCKPIT.

Secure Collaboration  

Locally hosted collaboration servers are an alternative to letting employees swap files in a public cloud. We show you how to set up an ownCloud 9 environment on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

News for Admins  

News for system administrators around the world.

Statistics Suppliers  

Many companies that use Google Analytics to learn more about visitors to their websites worry about privacy issues. We looked at some useful alternatives.

Dividing by Zero  

I love automation. Almost every day I write scripts to automate some task, and then I schedule that task to take place at a specific time. Sometimes I automate so many things that I forget they're automated. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but it does happen.
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