Category: Microsoft Technet

October 2009Forefront Security product management is being unified in a single management console known as Forefront Protection Manager (FPM). Here’s a peek at FPM’s features, including its effective task and alert systems and its comprehensive mon…

October 2009Pav Cherny looks at the data-protection strategies and options available with SharePoint, focusing on the most issues and how to resolve them.

October 2009Editor’s Note: Welcome to Windows 7

October 2009There’s still no one-stop solution for fully securing your IT systems, but AppLocker comes really, really close. This article offers insights about the technology’s features and functionality.

October 2009One big question about writing a user-provisioning script using Windows PowerShell: handling the errors that occur when you’re trying to create a username that already exists. Read this article for an approach that neatly addresses that i…

September 2009Henrik Walther digs into database availability, archiving and performance improvements planned in Exchange Server 2010.

September 2009Microsoft’s System Center Essentials (SCE) platform combines the functionality of two large-scale Microsoft management solutions—Windows Server Update Services and System Center Operations Manager—in a package designed for smaller e…

September 2009Find out how the R2 version of VMM 2008 can help you manage your organization’s virtual machines more easily and effi ciently. A key feature is its support for new new functionality in Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor.

September 2009Protecting SharePoint from the bad guys involves understanding your topology and layering solutions.

September 2009Manually installing and deploying your infrastructure is a time-consuming, tedious process. Automate those tasks with System Center tools, and get on to more important work.

September 2009Greg Steen discusses free tools that can help you clone hard drives, identify unknown files, protect sensitive data and monitor disk space

September 2009Are you having problems with Access Control Lists and permissions? It may be related to AdminSDHolder. Learn exactly what AdminSDHolder is, how it works—and how you can tweak it to better meet your organization’s needs.

September 2009Two of the biggest Windows PowerShell headaches involve filtering and formatting. Learn about two simple rules that can help you avoid problems in both areas.

September 2009Microsoft System Center is typically associated with largescale IT environments. Learn how System Center components can offer managing and monitoring capabilities for the small to midsize organization as well.

September 2009Certain Web pages may display differently in Internet Explorer 8 than they did in earlier versions. This tool lets you view pages from different versions side by side to see what needs tweaking for IE8.

September 2009Encoding usage information in the Start menu lets tinkerers know to stay away—and here’s why.

September 2009From the Editor: System Center Solutions: Meeting Universal Needs

August 2009Greg Steen highlights new tools and utilities for the IT Professional.

August 2009Windows PowerShell v2 aims to fix the server management shortcomings of Windows Management Instrumentation. Don Jones shows how the new remoting features in Windows PowerShell v2 are a powerful and simple way to run any commands on remote co…

August 2009See how you can design and build a data mart that uses SQL Server 2008 Integration Services to perform the extract, transform and load (ETL) processes for the Adventure Works BI solution introduced in “Planning Your First Microsoft BI Soluti…