Windows Tip: A classic Active Directory mistake

By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

If you're spinning off a part of your business into a separate unit, migrate your Active Directory, don't split it. There's a risk you could put your AD into an unsupportable state. Here's why.

Unix Tip: Finding text in context -- again

By Sandra Henry-Stocker

If you need to see a few lines above and below the matching line of
grep, check out these two very nice tools to help you pull text from files while retaining enough of the context to make good use of the text you've located.

Storage Tip: iSCSI is doing just fine thank you

By David Hill, Mesabi Group

As an analyst, I tend to forget that not everyone is familiar with storage technologies even though they have been around for awhile and talked about extensively in the media. So it is with iSCSI. You may or may not be familiar with iSCSI, but you should know about the future of iSCSI -- especially in relationship to the other major storage networking protocol -- Fibre Channel.

Here's what you need to know.

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