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Inside SharePoint: Decentralizing Site Administration
In this installment, Pav Cherny explores the advantages and implications of delegating...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/22/2008
Application Lockdown with Software Restriction Policies
If you're looking for ways to ease the burden on your IT department and reduce the TCO for your...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 05/21/2008
Advances in BitLocker Drive Encryption
Last year's security issue of TechNet Magazine took you on a short tour of some of the features of...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/20/2008
Utility Spotlight: Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor
Are you finally ready to start planning your organization's upgrade to Windows Vista—but filled with...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/15/2008
Security: New Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista
You may be familiar with the Elevation PowerToys created by Michael Murgolo, which he discussed in...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 05/14/2008
The Great Debate: Security by Obscurity
Is security by obscurity security at all? That idea is met with derision from many professionals—and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/13/2008
June 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine available online
The June 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online. Security, security, and more...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 05/12/2008
Field Notes Multiple Mice, One PC
What do you do when students outnumber the computers available in a classroom setting? Read about...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/11/2008
The Desktop Files: Leaving the Administrator Behind
If you haven't yet begun thinking about moving all of your users who run as Administrators to Users,...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/10/2008
New Online Video
I just wanted to point out that the June 2008 installment of the Windows PowerShell column is now...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 05/09/2008
Hey, Scripting Guy! Raising Eyebrows on Regular Expressions
The Microsoft Scripting Guys visit the Louvre, take up art criticism, and follow up on a previous...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/09/2008
What's New in System Center Essentials SP1
System Center Essentials 2007 is specifically designed to meet the challenges faced by the midsize...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/08/2008
Sustainable Computing: Competing for Change
Just a quick note to point out that we published another installment of the online "Sustainable...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 05/07/2008
Inside Sharepoint: Building Your SharePoint Infrastructure
Web-based collaboration is changing how people work together and share information, and SharePoint...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/06/2008
Windows PowerShell: Automating Directory Management
While Windows PowerShell is a powerful tool, it does have a notable shortcoming that is largely due...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 05/05/2008
Security Watch: Principles of Quantum Security
What does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle have to do with computer security? In the May...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 05/03/2008
Designing OU Structures that Work
How much planning do you put into your Organizational Unit, or OU, structure? If you're like many...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 05/02/2008
Exchange Queue & A: Exchange 2007 SP1 Deployment
In this installment, Nino Bilic answers a number of your questions about Exchange Server 2007 SP1,...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/01/2008
Active Directory Backup and Restore in Windows Server 2008
Active Directory is one of the most critical components of your infrastructure. If it goes...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/30/2008
Introducing System Center Mobile Device Manager
Mobile devices have historically been more difficult to manage than other network equipment due to...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/29/2008
Utility Spotlight: SharePoint Capacity Planning
Planning a large installation of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/24/2008
New Online Column: Sustainable Computing
It seems every company is talking about how they are being green, environmental, sustainable. And as...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/22/2008
Extending the Active Directory Schema
Microsoft provides a base schema definition for implementing Active Directory, and many applications...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/22/2008
May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine available online
The May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/21/2008
The Cable Guy: Troubleshooting NAP Enforcement
The new Network Access Protection (NAP) platform built into Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/20/2008
Security Watch: Where Is My PII?
Before you can effectively protect your Personally Identifiable Information, or PII, you first need...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/19/2008
Integrating Access Databases with SharePoint
Many organizations still rely on Microsoft Access for essential business needs. Fortunately, you...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/18/2008
SQL Server 2008: Data Warehouse Query Performance
SQL Server 2008 offers more powerful relational data warehousing capabilities. Take a close look at...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/18/2008
Minimize Blocking in SQL Server
While locking is essential to support concurrent read and write activities on a database, blocking...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/17/2008
SQL Server 2008: Security
SQL Server 2008 may be a mature product, but security continues to be an area of deliberate...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/16/2008
Utility Spotlight: Web Capacity Analysis Tool
Web logs and historical traffic analysis may give you insight into the kind of traffic you can...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/15/2008
The Desktop Files: Deploying Windows XP with the WAIK
Despite what we may wish, not everyone is ready to move to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/10/2008
What's New in SQL Server 2008
Policy management, query seeks against partitions, Extensible Key Management--the list goes...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/09/2008
SQL Server 2008: New Data Types
The more complex the economy grows and the more global its reach, the more complex the data we have...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/08/2008
April 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine available online
The April 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/07/2008
Windows PowerShell: Progress Report
Waiting for a task to complete can be very frustrating—especially when there is no feedback...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 04/05/2008
Field Notes: Preparing for IT 2.0
Does your organization need a nudge into the future? Do you? You’ve heard lots about Web 2.0,...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/04/2008
The Desktop Files: You Can't Be Too Rich or Too Thin
Thin clients come and thin clients go, but there always seems to be some scenario that can benefit...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/03/2008
Hey, Scripting Guy! Our Favorite Shell Games
There's a good chance that, sooner or later, someone will ask you to write a system administration...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/02/2008
Auditing and Compliance in Windows Server 2008
Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 As the complexity and scale of IT environments increases, so...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/01/2008
What's New in Active Directory Domain Services
Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 introduces some substantial enhancements...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 03/31/2008
Windows Server 2008: Configuration
Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 offers some new techniques for configuring...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 03/30/2008
Windows Confidential: How Betas Became RCs
Remember when the close-but-not-quite-ready version of code was called the beta? Where did this...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 03/28/2008
Deploying Windows Server 2008 with System Center
Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 It used to be that server administrators would install Windows...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/27/2008
Policy-Driven Network Access with Windows Server 2008
Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 Windows administrators are smack-dab in the middle of a...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/25/2008
The Cable Guy: Migrating Your Intranet to IPv6 with ISATAP
If you’ve been thinking about migrating to IPv6 , the Cable Guy explains how you can use an...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/20/2008
Getting Started with IIS 7.0
IIS 7.0 is packed with new features—too many to include in a single article. The architecture...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/18/2008
SQL Server Sweepstakes
In honor of the upcoming release of SQL Server 2008 (which you will see covered in full in our...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/17/2008
Inside Windows Server 2008 Kernel Changes
The March issue of TechNet Magazine offers in-depth coverage about many aspects of the new Windows...
Author: Matt Graven Date: 03/17/2008
Utility Spotlight: Windows Server Logo Certification
How do you know if your applications are compatible with Windows Server 2008? To help ISVs...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/13/2008