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This article is excerpted from the book “Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed” by Paul McFedries, published by SAMS, copyright Pearson Education Inc. all rights reserved ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...

I was proudly wearing one of my Salt Stack shirts the other day when my daughter asked me, "What is Salt Stack?" I began by explaining the problem it solved. If you have multiple servers and want to ...

Every once in a while a product comes along that fundamentally alters your perception of what is possible with IT. For me, it was the first time I saw Microsoft’s IntelliMirror technology. The ...

The concept of a configuration management system (CMS) is an idea whose time has come - particularly since the release of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3, known as V3. ITIL V3 devotes ...

At the foundation of today’s networks lies a fragile, interdependent and sophisticated ecosystem of hardware and software configurations. Unfortunately this complexity has a downside. Problems arising ...

A back-end configuration management computer server may retrieve one of the secure configuration benchmarks and provision, by an orchestration engine, an initial operating system build in accordance ...

While some of the terminology used to describe the world of software configuration management can be quite foggy, the fundamental importance of configuration management to development is crystal clear ...