SQL Server Magazine March 2007

[Feature]
If your company must meet regulatory requirements, your storage management strategy should support that need. Take a look at three different standards—HIPAA, SEC Rule 17a-4, and SOX—and how each can affect a business's choice of storage.
By David Chernicoff
Exchange Server 2007 eliminates routing groups in favor of a more efficient message-flow process, but you'll need to perform certain tasks to make the new routing coexist with legacy Exchange servers.
By Paul Robichaux
Learn how Pivot Tables display hierarchical data, what OneNote 2007's OCR indexing means for your searches, and why you might want to consider using Word 2007's blogging feature.
By Dan Holme
Hosted applications can often reduce costs, but you need to evaluate how your business plans to use them before you decide to take that route.
By David Chernicoff
Learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 features in this guided tour, using practical "experiences" to manage content, tasks, workflow, and Web parts.
By Dan Holme
[Reader to Reader]
If you need to quickly search through PDF files, you'll want to try this reader's creative solution.
By Readers
[Product Reviews]
See how Microsoft's free WSUS stacks up against PatchLink Update and Shavlik HFNetChkPro Plus.
By Philip Morgan
Here’s a first look at System Center Essentials 2007, Microsoft's promising management solution aimed at midsized businesses.
By Ed Roth
[TOP 10]
The new business-oriented features included in Windows Vista provide additional functionality and make the new OS easy to use in the workplace.
By Michael Otey
[Buyer's Guide]
These entry-level database solutions are ideal for individuals and small organizations.
By Blake Eno
[Letters to the Editor]
By Editors
[Need to Know]
The next two years will be quite significant for Windows Server technologies. Paul Thurrott examines Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows Centro Mid-Market Server, Windows Server Longhorn, and Windows Server virtualization.
By Paul Thurrott
[What's Hot]
VMware Converter 3 Beta, NirSoft's produkey, and Hardcopy
By Readers , et al.
[Ask the Experts]
Learn more about the administrative template files in Windows Vista and discover the reason behind the short delays when accessing Windows Vista's File Open dialog box.
By Various Authors
[Windows Power Tools]
A great new tool in Vista and Windows 2003 offers a quick command-line method for taking ownership of files and folders.
By Mark Minasi
[New & Improved]
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Virtual Iron Software's Virtual Oron 3.1.
By Blake Eno
[IT Pro Perspective]
Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer and teh Exchange Server Risk Assessment and Health Check Program help you proactively identify and solve problems in your Exchange configuration.
By Karen Forster
[Review]
EventSentry 2.72 provides the network-monitoring capabilities that smaller businesses need.
By Joel B. Barker
[Solutions +]
Here’s a free and simple-to-set-up alternative to using a Microsoft or third-party VPN for secure connectivity on the road: the OpenSSH VPN tool and the Squid for Windows proxy server.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
[Cover Story]
Karen Forster tallks with Microsoft's Kirill Tatarinov and Larry Orecklin about the latest System Center products and how they address the priorities and pain points of systems management.
By Karen Forster
[Product News]
Best Office upgrade in a decade, Microsoft Office 2007 System offers new UIs for Word, Excel, Access, and Powerpoint, which may demand considerable retraining from experienced users. The new upgrade to Firefox is solid, but not a revelation.
By Paul Thurrott
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