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David Tesar recently posted an interview with Mark Russinovich . In the interview, Mark discusses joining Microsoft, the future of Sysinternals , what's in store for Security, and where Windows is headed. Mark Russinovich , of course, has also written...
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With Windows Vista, t he UserAccounts.CommonDialog ActiveX control for opening a file open dialog box no longer exists. Here's a look at how you can solve that problem using Visual Basic. No, wait. Don't run off saying "I don't...
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Just in case you didn’t know, TechNet Magazine has won a number of awards in its relatively short lifetime. Last year, we won the Society for Technical Communication’s Excellence Award for our October, November, and December 2006 issues. How cool is that...
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As an editor at TechNet Magazine , I don’t know if I’m supposed to have favorites, but I do. Some of the articles are just more interesting to me, either because they’re better written, or they explain something I don’t know, or they somehow tell a compelling...
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The July 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online. FEATURE ARTICLES In the July issue, we provide guidance on Going Live with IIS 7.0 , giving advice on how you can test, stage, and migrate your Web apps. We also have an article that shows...
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If you've picked up a newspaper or turned on a television in the past year, you know that pretty much every company seems to be talking about their environmental efforts. Well, this has a significant impact on IT. IT departments consume huge amounts...
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Is security by obscurity security at all? That idea is met with derision from many professionals—and just as passionately defended by others. This article serves as a forum for both sides of the argument, focusing in particular on whether or not it’s...
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The June 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online. Security, security, and more security. The June issue is our annual Security Issue, and we delve into a variety of security-related topics. In the June issue, we have some security all-stars...
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What do you do when students outnumber the computers available in a classroom setting? Read about how Microsoft Research India has developed a solution, called MultiPoint, that allows multiple mice to be used simultaneously on one computer. And that means...
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While Windows PowerShell is a powerful tool, it does have a notable shortcoming that is largely due to timing. In the May installment of the Windows PowerShell column, Don Jones explains why the first version of Windows PowerShell offers less than...
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What does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle have to do with computer security? In the May installment of Security Watch, Jesper Johansson explains how this and other principles of Quantum Physics can shed light on the ever-changing principles of system...
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How much planning do you put into your Organizational Unit, or OU, structure ? If you're like many administrators, probably not enough. Too many administrators underestimate the importance and complexity of a well-designed OU structure. It is something...
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Active Directory is one of the most critical components of your infrastructure. If it goes down, your network is rendered useless. Therefore, to ensure business continuity and compliance, you need to have a solid backup and recovery plan in place...
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The May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462914.aspx . The May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online. In the May issue, we delve into Active Directory management,...
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Before you can effectively protect your Personally Identifiable Information, or PII, you first need to know where it's stored on your PC. And you just might be surprised to find it hiding in some corners you didn't know about. In the April...
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SQL Server 2008 offers more powerful relational data warehousing capabilities. Take a close look at key performance-related data warehousing features and find out how you can use all this new technology to optimize query performance. The article explores...
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Web logs and historical traffic analysis may give you insight into the kind of traffic you can expect over time, but how can you tell what your infrastructure can really handle? To find out, you need a tool like Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) that...
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The April 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc405670.aspx . The April 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is available online, offering a host of information about SQL Server 2008. Randy Dyess...
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Waiting for a task to complete can be very frustrating—especially when there is no feedback about whether a process is performing properly and when it will be done. For your users with attention span issues—or even those who just want...
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Does your organization need a nudge into the future? Do you? You’ve heard lots about Web 2.0, but it's time for everyone to start thinking of IT 2.0 if we are going to realize anything even closely resembling the potential of technology. Don’t...
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Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 introduces some substantial enhancements to Active Directory Domain Services . In the March issue of TechNet Magazine, Gil Kirkpatrick delves into these changes. He takes a close look at how read...
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Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 offers some new techniques for configuring your servers. One key approach it takes to improve security and manageability is to simplify server roles so you can easily install only the tools...
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Remember when the close-but-not-quite-ready version of code was called the beta? Where did this Release Candidate come from? In the March issue of TechNet Magazine , Raymond Chen discusses the intriguing back story of how (and why) the naming conventions...
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According to Don Jones, author of the TechNet Magazine Windows PowerShell column, File Permissions are one of the most common requests. Unfortunately, permissions in Windows is a complicated matter and there is little Windows PowerShell can do to fix...
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The vast number of disparate documents and other content items stored throughout a large organization can make it difficult to manage documents, their associated metadata, and their behaviors in a centralized and reusable way. In the February issue of...
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