SQL Server Magazine August 2007

[Feature]
Using a tiered architecture and load-balancing technologies helps ensure that your SharePoint environment remains up and running.
By Ryan Femling
Microsoft has numerous password synchronization solutions—learn whether one of them is right for your environment, or whether you’d be better off with a third-party product.
By Jan De Clercq
Before you can upgrade to Exchange 2007, you need to prepare your AD and make sure your existing organization is set for the change.
By Brien Posey
[Reader to Reader]
If your computer is slow or even stops when you're opening or searching for files, you might want to monitor the catalogs that the Indexing Service creates. Learn what to look for to see whether the problem lies with master merges.
By Readers
Learn how you can use two freeware utilities and a two-line batch file to automatically burn crucial files to a DVD or CD-ROM for safekeeping.
By Readers
[TOP 10]
Windows Server Virtualization, an add-on for Windows Server 2008, offers features that lead to easier backup and better scalability, making virtualization in Windows easier than ever.
By Michael Otey
[Letters to the Editor]
Readers ask about System integrity levels, point out the difference between moving and copy files on the same server, sound off about the spread of malicious software, and more.
By Readers , et al.
[Need to Know]
Microsoft trimmed the scope of Windows Server Virtualization in early 2007, stripping promising features such as live migration and hot-add hardware support from the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008.
By Paul Thurrott
[What's Hot]
Readers highlight favorite products: Zenprise for Exchange and Zenprise for BlackBerry, Atempo LiveBackup, and InfoStreet's StreetSmart.
By Blake Eno
[Windows Power Tools]
We dive more deeply into integrity levels by showing you how to use last month's Chml utility to assume the System integrity level.
By Mark Minasi
[IT Pro Perspective]
Microsoft is working to make the Windows 2008 logo program a meaningful gauge of quality for ISVs and IT pros.
By Karen Forster
[The Business End]
You might not think of yourself as a salesperson, but whether you're trying to get another rack of servers or consensus among stakeholders, you're selling. These tips will help you do it better.
By Ben Smith
[Solutions +]
Although Windows 2008 improves on the ability to present single applications from a terminal server, that functionality has been around since Win2K. Here's how to do it.
By Nate McAlmond
Recovering AD data is difficult because it typically replicates across multiple DCs. LVR improves replication of AD linked values and eases object recovery during an authoritative restore; however, this feature isn’t enabled by default.
By Guido Grillenmeier
[Cover Story]
Windows IT Pro editors were the judging panel for Best of TechEd this year. Here are their thoughts about the winners.
By Editors
Windows IT Pro readers voted for their favorite products from 12 different Buyer's Guides. Here are the winners and runners-up.
By Readers , et al.
The editors of Windows IT Pro designate top products in 13 categories.
By Editors
We highlight products from Microsoft Partners that took honors at the Microsoft Management Summit in March.
By Editors
IT pros who attended TechEd in June designated these products as their favorites.
By Editors
We honor the products and services in five categories that our readers and editors consider the best of the best.
By Editors
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