TechNet Magazine October 2006

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Easily Enable and Disable Web Access for Individual Users

Exchange Server 2007 enables Outlook Web Access for each user by default. In five steps, however, you can easily disable Outlook Web Access for specific users ...

Discover how the new Problem Steps Recorder can help you troubleshoot problems on remote systems by letting you see exactly what actions are taking place on the system. ...

Simple steps for creating and restoring Shadow Copies on Windows Server 2008! ...

Windows Server 2008 defines a set of special identities that you can use to assign permissions in certain situations. The special identities are listed here. ...

You can easily prevent costly queries from executing by configuring the query governor. Find out how to do this in just a few simple steps. ...

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Popular Articles

Exchange Queue & A: Mysterious Attachment Size Increases, Replicating Public Folders, and More

Why do attachment sizes increase when sending and receiving e-mail messages? How can you ensure databases on a passive node in a CCR cluster are defragmented during online maintenance? Can you use an external trust between forests? We answer these questions and more.

Henrik Walther

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Virtualization brings significant changes to disaster recovery. Here’s an introduction to how the Microsoft virtualization platform factors into your disaster recovery plan, as well as a deeper look into backup and restore options and considerations for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

Adam Fazio

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Toolbox: New Products for IT Pros

Greg Steen discusses recovering from system crashes with Replay RA - Recovery Accelerator, managing compressed archives with WinRAR, using TortoiseSVN to simplify source control, measuring disk I/O with Iometer, as well as rebooting servers remotely with the APC Switched Rack PDU, and looks at the book "Windows Group Policy: Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista".

Greg Steen

TechNet Magazine January 2009

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The upcoming release of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager “2” offers many new features and enhancements. Explore the new portal experience and find out how you can cut costs with self-service tools, increase security compliance with business process modeling, and reduce development time with simplified development tools.

Aung Oo

TechNet Magazine January 2009

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Raymond Chen explains why it is often the developers who have their acts together who end up checking in the final bug fixes to products.

Raymond Chen

TechNet Magazine January 2009

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Our Blog

Geek of all Trades: Control Network Access Using DHCP Enforcement

NAP monitors the health of specified computers when they attempt to connect to a network and includes a number of mechanisms to enforce health requirements. In this article, Geek of All Trades Greg Shields gives readers an overview of these enforcement mechanisms and, as an example, takes a closer look at setting ...

Use Windows PowerShell to Manage Virtual Machines Here are a few examples of how you can use Windows PowerShell scripts to manage virtual machines running on a Server Core installation. Note that these scripts are presented as samples and may need to be customized to work in your environment.

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Disabling an Unused Part of Group Policy Objects One way to disable a policy is to disable an unused part of the GPO. By disabling part of a policy that isn’t used, the application of GPOs and security will be faster.

Administer Windows Server 2008 Server Core from the Command Prompt ...

In the August 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine, Paul Randal wrote an article Top Tips for Effective Database Maintenance. It was geared toward "involuntary DBAs" (IT pros who inadvertently wind up responsible for a SQL Server instance). The article had a great response from our readers so Paul has written another ...

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Forefront Security

Microsoft Forefront is designed to deliver an integrated security solution that makes it much easier to deploy and manage security across an organization’s IT infrastructure. In this, our annual security issue, we feature two articles that describe how Forefront Security protects instant messaging and e-mail.

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October 2006

Communication & Collaboration: Get into the Groove: Solutions for Secure and Dynamic Collaboration

Office Groove 2007 lets users collaborate dynamically and securely with people from around the world. Find out how the Groove client can fit into your organization. Yung Chou

Communication & Collaboration: Building an Emergency Operations Center on Groove and SharePoint

Take an inside look at how Groove and SharePoint help the Louisiana State University Emergency Operations Center respond to disaster. John Morello

Communication & Collaboration: Reveal Deeper Meaning: Powerful Exchange Server Analysis with LogParser

There's a lot of useful data hidden in your Exchange Server logs. Learn to use LogParser to examine this data and improve your Exchange environment. Michael Higashi

Communication & Collaboration: Fight Spam on Your Terms with Custom Weight Lists

Explore the new features in Exchange Server 2003 SP2 that offer more powerful ways to stop spam from clogging up your network. Cam Frenette and Alexander Nikolayev

Communication & Collaboration: Achieve High Availability with Exchange Failover Clusters

Don’t let your Exchange Server system go offline. Here’s a real Exchange solution that allows an enterprise to recover quickly from an e-mail outage. Mark Godfrey

Deployment: Boot into RAM with Windows PE

With added support for variable boot configurations, Windows PE has become even more flexible. Learn three different ways to boot into RAM and how this can benefit your next deployment. Wes Miller

Deployment: Make Server Rollouts a Snap with Automated Deployment Services

Intrigued by standardized images, faster rebuilds, and consistent supportability? Automating the deployment of servers offers benefits for any organization—big or small. Here’s what you need to know to get started. John Savill

Deployment: Create More Flexible Office Deployments with the Local Install Source

LIS can greatly simplify Microsoft Office support. This overview covers everything from deployment to maintenance to configuration considerations. Dean Yamada

Small Business Server: Master Your Domain: Build a Corporate Network at Home

Want a home network that’s just as powerful as the one at work? Here’s an affordable solution to bring home secure messaging, shared resources, single sign-on, and everything else you’ve come to expect from your corporate network. Matt Clapham and Jesper M. Johansson

Columns

From the Editor: Downtime is a Four-Letter Word WHAT'S MORE DISTURBING than snakes on a plane, exploding laptop batteries, and the badly deployed puns in this Editor's Note, all put together? It's the idea that the office you're responsible for might start to fall apart. Joshua Trupin	Toolbox: New Products for IT Pros Greg Steen	Utility Spotlight: File Server Migration Toolkit Jeremy Moskowitz
SQL Q&A: Running in RAM, Agent Jobs, and More Edited by Nancy Michell	Hey, Scripting Guy!: Setting Up Outlook E-Mail Signatures The Microsoft Scripting Guys	How IT Works: Windows Rights Management Services Randy Muller
Field Notes: Where Did the Net Go? R'ykandar Korra'ti	Windows Confidential: Compatibility Constraints Raymond Chen