SQL Server Magazine December 2005

[Feature]
Key DFS replication enhancements, a brand-new identity management capability, storage management improvements, and more new features offer appealing reasons to upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Release 2 (R2).
By John Savill
Windows IT Pro recognizes nine IT pros for their technical know-how and resourcefulness in using Windows technology to solve real-world business problems.
By Anne Grubb
[Reader to Reader]
Supposedly, the disablement of Office documents happens on a per-user basis. However, one reader encountered a situation in which an entire domain of users all had the same documents showing up as disabled. Here’s how he fixed the problem.
By Readers
If your PCs are cluttered with unused profiles, you can use the Delprof utility to delete those profiles that haven’t been used for a specified number of days.
By Apostolos Fotakelis
[Product Reviews]
Three vendors provide MIMO access point products that improve the range of your wireless connection.
By Adam Carheden
[TOP 10]
These 10 tips can make your scripting efforts more productive and at the same time help you write better scripts.
By Michael Otey
[Letters to the Editor]
Your letters about Windows Vista's least privilege feature, identity management, and more.
By Readers , et al.
[Need to Know]
The market for continuous data protection products is starting to heat up. Paul Thurrott revisits DPM (formerly Data Protection Server—DPS) now that he has some experience deploying and managing a DPM server.
By Paul Thurrott
[What's Hot]
Readers highlight favorite products: N2U Production’s PE Builder, DameWare Development’s Mini Remote Control, IntelliReach’s Content Inspector, and Vircom’s ModusGate.
By Readers
[Ask the Experts]
By Editors
[Windows Power Tools]
This free tool helps you harvest event-log data from across your network.
By Mark Russinovich
[New & Improved]
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
Messageware's AttachView 7.0
By Carolyn Mader
[Industry Briefings]
Our editors share insights from their conversations with LANDesk Software, Shavlik Technologies, Symantec, and Avocent Technologies
By Editors
[IT Pro Perspective]
An intriguing new IT network's in the making, and our annual IT Industry Survey gives you the skinny on how Windows IT pros are doing—and what they think about their profession.
By Karen Forster
[Hey Microsoft!]
Readers ask how Exchange 2003 SP2 will make Exchange competitive with other mobile solutions and let IT pros consolidate and manage email and messaging technology. Read responses from the Exchange and Windows Mobile product teams.
By Karen Forster
[The Business End]
Take control of the hiring process with these five simple yet effective strategies.
By Ben Smith
[Review]
Keep a lid on IM and p2p traffic in your organization
By Adam Carheden
Extend Group Policy's reach and gain more control over client systems.
By Adam Carheden
[Solutions +]
Send hackers packing by protecting your wireless APs and clients with 6 simple steps.
By Jeff Fellinge
[Cover Story]
You told us about how your job affects you and what you think about it. Interpreting all the data was daunting, but we learned a lot about IT pros' job satisfaction.
By Dianne Russell
Our second annual industry survey paints an intriguing picture of IT professionals.
By Amy Eisenberg
You've responded to our survey, and we've collated the results. Now it's time to see how you're doing compared to your peers according to such determiners as job function, gender, age, experience, education, company demographics, and geographic region.
By Jason Bovberg
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