March • April 2006
Desktop Deployment:A Guide To Pain-Free Desktop Deployment
Steve Campbell and Michael Niehaus
Desktop Deployment:Get A Move On: Migrate User Data With USMT
Michael Murgolo
Desktop Deployment:Zero Touch Windows Deployment With SMS
Adam Gordon
Desktop Deployment:Design More Secure Desktop Deployments
Shelly Bird
Systems Management:No Desktop Left Behind: SMS Troubleshooting Basics
John Baker
Systems Management:Measure Twice, Roll Out Once With The SMS Capacity Planner
Craig Morris
Systems Managament:Five Solution Accelerators to Lend MOM a Helping Hand
Steve Rachui
Systems Management:Cut Through The Noise: Better Reporting with MOM and SMS
Richard Threlkeld
Virtual Server 2005:Do More With Less: Exploring Virtual Server 2005
Anil Desai
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In various ways, all of us are desktop admins at one point in our lives. Right now, I’m on the phone with my mother. I do about two hours a week on this assignment; the current challenge seems to revolve around her running "Microsoft" and not being able to find an icon.Joshua Trupin
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ToolBox:New Products for IT Professionals
Process ExplorerGreg Steen
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Utility Spotlight:Server Performance Advisor
Establishing solid configurations that are optimized for a server’s unique environment can often be challenging work, especially in large or complex environments. Once your servers are deployed, keeping an eye on performance to ensure that every server is running in tip-top shape can be a full-time job.Joshua Hoffman
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SQL Questions & Answers:Runaway Log Files, SQL Server Instances, and More
Your queries answered by Microsoft IT professionals.Edited by Nancy Michell
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Over the previous two issues, I discussed the two most popular Internet message-moving protocols, SMTP and POP3. This month, I will approach the Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4, revision one (IMAP4rev1), often referred to just as IMAP4.R'ykandar Korra'ti
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Blog Tales:Blogging Is Only the Beginning
A while back, a TechNet editor asked me to convert my stunningly successful, teeth-gleaming, world-wide TechEd presentation (well, Europe and Australia) about Microsoft employee blogging into an article for TechNet Magazine.Betsy Aoki
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Hey, Scripting Guy!:Determining a User’s Group Memberships
Groucho Marx once said, "I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." (The Scripting Guys hold a similar philosophy...or we would if we could ever find a group that would accept us as members.)The Microsoft Scripting Guys
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Vigilancia de seguridad:Establecimiento de una cuarentena de acceso remoto
En esos buenos y viejos tiempos previos a la movilidad y de fácil manejo, los equipos personales representaban unas cuantas amenazas reales para una red. Efectivamente, existía el virus ocasional que se obtenía de un disco prestado, pero el índice, o al menos la velocidad, de infección era bastante bajo, limitado principalmente por un ancho de banda reducido y una alta latencia de tecnología de "sneakernet" (protocolo de transporte por medios físicos).Steve Riley
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Inside Microsoft.com:Analyzing Denial of Service Attacks
If you’ve been following this column, you know how big Microsoft. com is. If not, you can probably imagine. On average, the site reaches over 13 million unique users per day, and about 289 million per month.Paul Wright
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Field Notes:The Infamous Jargon Barrier
We’ve all done it at one point or another in our career. We find ourselves in the presence of an executive from our company and look to capitalize on the opportunity, making sure that they know about the great work we are doing.Ron Melanson
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TechNet Update:Find Out How R2 Works for You
When Microsoft rolls out new releases of fundamental products like Windows Server™ 2003, you want to take full advantage, but you also want to avoid the headaches that can come when you start making changes to a stable server platform that you know well.Geof Wheelwright
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Windows Confidential:An Administrator Is Not the Administrator
I came across a report from a user who was trying to set the owner of a file to "Administrator. " The user was unable to do this even though he was logged on as an administrator. Why won’t the system let an administrator change the owner of a file to Administrator? Don’t administrators have permission to take ownership of files?.Raymond Chen
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