When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

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Over the last 30 years, vehicle configuration complexity has increased almost exponentially. In the early '90s, vehicles had around 20 electronic control units (ECUs), with luxury models rounding out ...

As state and local agencies accelerate cloud adoption, security and compliance issues increasingly stem not from missing controls but from configuration drift — the gradual divergence of cloud ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Network devices control how traffic can travel across the network and have security monitoring features. Refine and preserve your settings by managing network device configurations. Network devices ...

A trio of cloud industry leaders have launched a new company with the mission of modernizing software configuration data management. That event demonstrated that software is now critical ...

Configuration management – the “C” in “FCAPS” (fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security) – has been much neglected, largely left to in-house improvisation and element-centric ...

Configuration management is one of the few processes that overarch all other process and service lifecycle phases in ITIL V3. Wthout it, the effectiveness of the rest of your processes will be in ...

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If the Control Panel and the System Configuration tool are something you use frequently then how about adding the latter to the former? By tweaking the Windows Registry, you can add the System ...