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If you give users who are usually supervised more scope to help themselves, they will need additional privileges. The sudo tool and the PolicyKit authorization service can control who does what on Linux.

Version 3.1 of the oVirt management platform for virtual infrastructures has recently become available. On Fedora 17, the new release is easy to install and deploy.

Microsoft is not known for its tireless commitment to Linux interoperability, but you can still get Windows to work with Linux – if you have the tools and know the tricks.

Creating a virtual machine manually is straightforward but too time consuming if you regularly need to set up many virtual machines. The BoxGrinder and VMBuilder programs let you automate this process.

A lack of information about your infrastructure can result in faulty system configuration and other difficulties. Automatic discovery of all hosts and services would seem to be the best solution – but can it also prove itself in practice?

Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 offers numerous improvements in Active Directory, as well as better and easier management.

You don’t have to buy Windows 8 Enterprise Edition to create a Windows To Go USB drive, nor do you have to buy an expensive, certified USB disk to make it work.

Ngrep is a pattern-matching tool that sorts the wheat from the chaff and doubles as a lightweight packet sniffer.

If the Linux server crashes, not only do you need to restore operations, you also need to analyze the problem. A kernel crash dump at the time of the crash can be a big help.

In the old Hyper-V hypervisor from Microsoft, many features for professional use were missing. The new version 3.0 has been significantly improved and is slowly catching up to VMware.