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Exchange 2007 Shortcomings
Try these workarounds for some of Exchange 2007’s frustrating aspects, such as loss of GUI functions and certificate complexities.
Windows IT Pro
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Nathan Winters
Fixing Network Problems
Is your network down? Or do you merely have network problems? Here are four scenarios to help you troubleshoot and get your network up and running.
Windows IT Pro
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Michael Dragone
Deploying Office 2007 and Managing VPNs with Group Policy
Group Policy continues to be powerful—and difficult to work with. A few workarounds can help in using it to deploy Office 2007 and letting users connect to VPNs.
Windows IT Pro
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Darren Mar-Elia
Should You Use Windows Server Backup?
Windows Server Backup doesn't work like NTBackup, and the differences can be annoying. Find out what these limitations are and how you can work around them--or if you need a different solution altogether.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Ease Security Headaches
Review some common security aggravations—such as ad-hoc wireless networks, Internet Explorer’s password AutoComplete feature, UAC improvements, third-party application updates, and application virtualization—and learn how to handle them.
Windows IT Pro
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Russell Smith
Bridging SharePoint's Faults
These tips will get you past some SharePoint irritations, such as remembering the port number for Central Administration, accessing the Stsadm command, and the absence of many command line administration tasks.
Windows IT Pro
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Dan Holme
SQL Server 2008: Too Much Choice?
Bugs or unexpected behavior can be an annoyance with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, but the real problems are choosing the best edition from the 8 available and sorting out the convoluted licensing terms.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Virtualization Rematch
A lot has changed in the virtualization market, and particularly in Microsoft’s and VMware’s virtualization products. We take a fresh look at how these market forces compare in the performance arena.
Windows IT Pro
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Michael Otey
SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Build on Knowledge Every IT Shop Needs
Microsoft's thorough research into what SMBs need in a network infrastructure led to easier installation and management for the latest version of Windows Small Business Server and the new Windows Essential Business Server.
Windows IT Pro
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Karen Forster
SBS 2008 and EBS 2008: The View from the Trenches
The wizard-based deployment and preinstallation tools that come with Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 are a hit, but the cost and the migration process are less than ideal.
Windows IT Pro
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Karen Forster
Turn Security Nightmares into Proactive Strategies
Avoid becoming your own horror story by learning from the mistakes of others and beefing up your organization’s security blanket.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Let SCVMM 2008 Manage It All
If you like Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, you might want to check out the 2008 model. It’s SCOM friendly, hypervised, and PRO-packaged. It could be a sweet suite for your server virtualization plan.
Windows IT Pro
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Sean Deuby
Microsoft's Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
Microsoft’s Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool beta aims to make patching your VM easier.
Windows IT Pro
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Sean Deuby
Windows IT Pro Editors' Best Awards
We identify the best products for Windows in 15 categories, including Product of the Year, Breakthrough Product, and Special Achievement. Start here to find products that will maximize the ROI of your IT infrastructure.
Windows IT Pro
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Editors
Awards Recognize the Best of TechEd 2008 IT Professionals Conference
For our seventh annual awards issue, our judges traveled to Orlando to take a close look at the finalists in our Best of TechEd awards process and bring you the top third-party products. The envelope, please!
Windows IT Pro
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Editors
Windows IT Pro Community Choice Awards
Our readers have opinions about the best products, too, based on their experience with using products day in and day out. Here are their picks in eight categories, including Exchange Server monitoring, laptop synchronization, and disk imaging.
Windows IT Pro
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Editors
Virtualization Shootout, Part 1
Find out whether Microsoft’s new Hyper-V virtualization is a serious challenger to VMware’s mature and robust ESX Server.
Windows IT Pro
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Michael Otey
Mastering RSoP
Discerning the effective policy settings for a given user or computer can be hard, especially in larger organizations. Resultant Set of Policies cuts through the confusion and tells you what's happening with your Group Policy settings.
Windows IT Pro
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Darren Mar-Elia
Conquer 2 New DNS Exploits
You understand the importance of securing your external name servers, but what about your DNS clients? Two new client-focused vulnerabilities demand your attention.
Windows IT Pro
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Cricket Liu
The Soul of Windows Server 2008: Server Core and Hyper-V
In an exclusive interview, Bill Laing, general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Server division, comments candidly about Windows Server 2008 features that surprised him, technology that might be hard for users, and lessons learned from this release.
Windows IT Pro
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Karen Forster
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