SQL Server Magazine October 2007
[Feature]
In addition to moving Exchange to a 64-bit platform, Microsoft has improved the Exchange 2007 Information Store by adding features such as log shipping for resiliency and removing outdated features from previous versions.
By Tony Redmond
Use MOSS 2007's BDC to discover and use data held in back-end Line Of Business (LOB) applications.
By Kevin Laahs
Before you spend a lot of time and money on a Vista upgrade, check out the free downloadable tools from Microsoft.
By Rhonda Layfield
Learn about some of the new features of IPv6, as well as some of the reasons you should care about it—even if you don't plan on implementing it in the near future.
By John Howie
[Reader to Reader]
If you use high-privilege credentials to open Microsoft Management Consoles (MMCs), here's a clever way you can spend less time entering those credentials. All you need are some simple batch files.
By Readers
With this reporting tool, users are happy because they can obtain custom AD reports and administrators are happy because they have more time to tend to other tasks.
By Readers
Internet Explorer (IE) has provided URL shortcuts in the past. Microsoft continues that tradition in IE 7.0 with a new URL feature that can simplify your browsing experience.
By Apostolos Fotakelis
[Product Reviews]
EventSentry 2.8 is an excellent event-log and system-health monitoring and consolidation tool that you should consider closely for your environment.
By John Green
[TOP 10]
Groove 2007 is one of the lesser-known features of Office 2007. Here are 10 tips to get you started with this useful collaboration tool.
By Michael Otey
[Buyer's Guide]
An essential aspect of any disaster-recovery plan is the UPS. Need to know what to look for if you're in the market to buy one? Begin your search here.
By Blake Eno
[Letters to the Editor]
Readers ask about a strange behavior of the Domain Users group, the reason behind a defrag enhancement utility, and more
By Readers , et al.
[Market Watch]
In today's global businesses, communication and collaboration is becoming more difficult just as travel and off-site meetings are falling victim to cost cutting. Web conferencing is the solution.
By Gayle Rodcay
[Need to Know]
Microsoft has refreshed the Windows Server 2008 Beta with a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) build that includes even more new features and functionality while fixing almost a thousand bugs.
By Paul Thurrott
With regard to Web rendering technologies, Microsoft hasn't been much of a presence, but the company hopes to change its standing with a new technology called Microsoft Silverlight, a platform for developing rich applications that run in the browser.
By Paul Thurrott
Since Microsoft shipped two service packs for XP (one of them a major OS upgrade) within the product's first few years on the market, it's somewhat surprising that, three years after SP2, we've yet to see an SP3 release.
By Paul Thurrott
[What's Hot]
Readers highlight favorite products: Sunbelt Software's CounterSpy Enterprise, Security Laboratories' Security Recon, and Alloy Software's Alloy Navigator 5.
By Jeff James
[Ask the Experts]
Learn how to find all the files for which a user has access, learn what application virtualization is, find out how to open multiple pages at IE startup, and more.
By Mark Russinovich , et al.
[Windows Power Tools]
Need a way to generate 501 user accounts? No? I bet you'll want to try it after reading this column.
By Mark Minasi
[New & Improved]
Windows IT Pro takes a look at new and improved products.
By Jeff James
[IT Pro Perspective]
With Software Plus Services, Microsoft ups the ante in its competition with Google and SaaS. The company still has to protect revenue from traditional software, but it also has a strength competitors can't match.
By Karen Forster
[Review]
OCS 2007 merges call control and presence technologies into a single offering.
By Tony Piltzecker
Paul takes a gander at the iPhone and Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 2.0.
By Paul Thurrott
[Solutions +]
PowerShell lets you write simple scripts to automate Group Policy administration tasks such as managing and archiving GPOs listed in an Excel spreadsheet.
By Danny Kim
[Cover Story]
Windows 2008 and Vista highlights are new ID numbers, a new look, and an XML format for events; a more granular audit policy; and enhancements to Event Viewer.
By Randy Franklin Smith
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