SQL Server Magazine October 2006

[Feature]
A carelessly written shell script can cause potentially serious problems. These 10 guidelines will help you avoid those problems and create more robust scripts that work in various environments.
By Bill Stewart
[Reader to Reader]
If you've installed the test version of SharePoint Portal Server with SQL Server 2000 and want to upgrade to the production version of SharePoint Portal Server with SQL Server 2005, here's a problem you should know about.
By Alan Sugano
[Product Reviews]
Check out these summaries of Paul Thurrott's reviews on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 and Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2.
By Paul Thurrott
[TOP 10]
It seems that everyone uses Google's search engine, but the company isn't resting on its laurels.
By Michael Otey
[Buyer's Guide]
Exchange organizations come in many sizes, with many different needs. Wherever your organization falls, this buyer's guide will help you pick the Exchange management software that's right for you.
By Anne Grubb
[Letters to the Editor]
Readers comment on articles and offer a useful tip for changing passwords on the command line.
By Readers , et al.
[Market Watch]
The benefits and features of desktop provisioning and management software vary from vendor from vendor. Before you buy, you'll have to do more research and evaluation than usual.
By Alan Sugano
[Need to Know]
Although IE 7.0 will be distributed as a high-priority update through Microsoft's update services, you can choose whether to accept it.
By Paul Thurrott
A new version of SQL Server 2005 is aimed at Windows Mobile PDAs and smartphones and Windows-based portable computers. But does its portability offset its limitations?
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft is revisiting thin-client computing. Find out how—and whether—Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs can help your organization put legacy PCs to productive use.
By Paul Thurrott
[What's Hot]
Readers highlight favorite products: Gensortium's GenControl, PlateSpin PowerConvert, Qnext, Golden Bow Systems' VoptXP
By Blake Eno
[Ask the Experts]
Our experts answer your questions about GAL searches, adding contacts in Outlook, disabling the Remember password feature, and more.
By Various Authors
[Windows Power Tools]
Continuing his discussion of IPsec and Netsh, Mark takes a look at an important modification of last month's topic: encrypting and digitally signing traffic to and from a Web server.
By Mark Minasi
[New & Improved]
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT New Boundary Technologies' Policy Commander
By Readers
[Industry Briefings]
Our editors share insights from their conversations with Plus Technologies, Decru, and Network Appliance.
By Editors
[IT Pro Perspective]
How do you consume information, and how can Windows IT Pro—-and Microsoft—-better provide the information you need and want?
By Karen Forster
[The Business End]
Offshoring can be beneficial to business—or not. Learn the pros and cons of offshoring to understand the hype surrounding it.
By Ben Smith
[Solutions +]
In SharePoint, you can't easily restore files accidentally deleted from a SharePoint content database. But you can use an automated backup script and a variety of file-restore strategies to make the task of restoring SharePoint files easier.
By Ethan Wilansky , et al.
Is your company ready to deploy a wireless network? Here are seven basic steps to setting up a safe and secure WLAN.
By Ed Roth
[Cover Story]
Windows has always lacked advanced certificate, smart card, and USB token management features. Now Microsoft remedies the situation with CLM, a rebranded and revamped version of Alacris's idNexus product.
By Jan De Clercq
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