Category: Microsoft Technet

June 2008Toolbox: New Products for IT Pros

June 2008IT professionals often find themselves with objectives that contradict one another. Take a look at how being compliant often comes at the expense of being less secure.

June 2008Why should you upgrade to Windows Vista? Among many reasons, the new security features make it a must-have. This article explores some of the major security features introduced in Windows Vista.

June 2008Developed by Microsoft Research India, Split Screen allows two users to share a monitor while running separate instances of the OS on each side.

June 2008Paul Randal answers your SQL Server questions, showing you how to create corruption in a test database, helping you avoid a shrink-grow-shrink-grow cycle, and explaining how you can determine how many databases you can mirror before performanc…

May 2008SharePoint is powerful, but its complexity can make deployment quite challenging. Our new SharePoint column can help. In this first installment, we give an overview of the SharePoint architecture and show you how to set up a basic SharePoint in…

May 2008Letters: Readers Speak Out

May 2008Too many administrators underestimate the importance of having a well-designed Organizational Unit structure. Find out why having a sound OU strategy is important and determine the best OU structure for your organization.

May 2008Windows Server 2008 and the new Windows Server Backup utility bring many changes and welcome enhancements to backing up. Here is an in-depth guide to backing up and restoring Active Directory in the new server OS.

May 2008Many applications that rely on Active Directory define their own changes to the schema. But it’s important that these changes don’t impact other applications. Get an overview of extending the Active Directory through the classSchema and attribu…

May 2008In this installment, we provide answers to your questions about Exchange Server 2007 SP1.

May 2008The new System Center Mobile Device Manager provides a complete set of tools for managing Windows Mobile devices through an MMC snap-in or via Windows PowerShell. Find out how this vital tool will allow you to manage mobile devices, increase se…

May 2008The scripting guys visit the Louvre, take up art criticism, and show you how to use regular expressions in a script to do a search and replace.

May 2008Service Pack 1 introduces significant enhancements for System Center Essentials 2007. Explore some of the key changes that will improve the user experience and streamline administration.

May 2008Raymond Chen looks at why Windows Vista doesn’t support 16-bit icons, and wonders whether anybody has even noticed.

May 2008From the Editor: A Warm Welcome to “Inside SharePoint”

May 2008Toolbox: New Products for IT Pros

May 2008As the environment becomes a topic of increasing attention, many IT departments are looking for ways to reduce their energy consumption. In the first installment of our new online Sustainable Computing column, Dave Ohara discusses ways you can …

May 2008Explore the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool and see how you can design a topology for deploying SharePoint and then revise that topology after running load and usage simulations.

May 2008For the 2008 Imagine Cup, students have been challenged to use technology to enable a sustainable environment. Finalists in the U.S. competition recently presented their solutions in Los Angeles, and TechNet Magazine was there to see the innov…