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Virtualization Rematch
A lot has changed in the virtualization market, and particularly in Microsoft’s and VMware’s virtualization products. We take a fresh look at how these market forces compare in the performance arena.
Windows IT Pro
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Michael Otey
SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Build on Knowledge Every IT Shop Needs
Microsoft's thorough research into what SMBs need in a network infrastructure led to easier installation and management for the latest version of Windows Small Business Server and the new Windows Essential Business Server.
Windows IT Pro
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Karen Forster
SBS 2008 and EBS 2008: The View from the Trenches
The wizard-based deployment and preinstallation tools that come with Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 are a hit, but the cost and the migration process are less than ideal.
Windows IT Pro
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Karen Forster
Turn Security Nightmares into Proactive Strategies
Avoid becoming your own horror story by learning from the mistakes of others and beefing up your organization’s security blanket.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Let SCVMM 2008 Manage It All
If you like Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, you might want to check out the 2008 model. It’s SCOM friendly, hypervised, and PRO-packaged. It could be a sweet suite for your server virtualization plan.
Windows IT Pro
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Sean Deuby
Microsoft's Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
Microsoft’s Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool beta aims to make patching your VM easier.
Windows IT Pro
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Sean Deuby
Windows IT Pro Editors' Best Awards
We identify the best products for Windows in 15 categories, including Product of the Year, Breakthrough Product, and Special Achievement. Start here to find products that will maximize the ROI of your IT infrastructure.
Windows IT Pro
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Editors
Awards Recognize the Best of TechEd 2008 IT Professionals Conference
For our seventh annual awards issue, our judges traveled to Orlando to take a close look at the finalists in our Best of TechEd awards process and bring you the top third-party products. The envelope, please!
Windows IT Pro
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Editors
Windows IT Pro Community Choice Awards
Our readers have opinions about the best products, too, based on their experience with using products day in and day out. Here are their picks in eight categories, including Exchange Server monitoring, laptop synchronization, and disk imaging.
Windows IT Pro
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Editors
Virtualization Shootout, Part 1
Find out whether Microsoft’s new Hyper-V virtualization is a serious challenger to VMware’s mature and robust ESX Server.
Windows IT Pro
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Michael Otey
Mastering RSoP
Discerning the effective policy settings for a given user or computer can be hard, especially in larger organizations. Resultant Set of Policies cuts through the confusion and tells you what's happening with your Group Policy settings.
Windows IT Pro
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Darren Mar-Elia
Conquer 2 New DNS Exploits
You understand the importance of securing your external name servers, but what about your DNS clients? Two new client-focused vulnerabilities demand your attention.
Windows IT Pro
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Cricket Liu
The Soul of Windows Server 2008: Server Core and Hyper-V
In an exclusive interview, Bill Laing, general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Server division, comments candidly about Windows Server 2008 features that surprised him, technology that might be hard for users, and lessons learned from this release.
Windows IT Pro
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Karen Forster
Active Directory Enhancements in Windows Server 2008
Take a tour through some changes in Windows Server 2008 Active Directory (AD) and use handy tables for an overview of additions. In particular, examine the new read-only domain controller (RODC) to see how it can help lower risks to your organization.
Windows IT Pro
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Guido Grillenmeier
Volume Activation in Server 2008
VA2 uses Multiple Activation Keys (MAKs) or Key Management Service (KMS) hosts to activate systems in midsized and large organizations, eliminating the security and administrative problems of Volume License Keys (VLKs).
Windows IT Pro
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Sean Deuby
PowerShell Empowerment
Longtime scripter Alex Angelopoulos talks about how Windows PowerShell can help remove the drudgery—and improve the speed—of performing systems management tasks.
Windows IT Pro
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Anne Grubb
PowerShell 101, Lesson 1
This lesson walks you through how to use the Get-Help cmdlet to get the information you need to create a Get-Content command that reads a file—a common administrative task. Along the way, you'll learn how to use the Get-Command and Get-Alias cmdlets.
Windows IT Pro
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Robert Sheldon
Castaway on Command-Prompt Island
Curt Spanburgh relates the tale of a Windows administrator who, after patching his company’s servers, couldn't access a server using the Windows GUI tools. The admin’s solution: Use the SC command-line tool to troubleshoot the problem and restore service.
Windows IT Pro
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Curt Spanburgh
Manage Those Pesky Patches
Patching problems? These patch management tips can help ease your pain and free up your time.
Windows IT Pro
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Michael Dragone
Avoid Active Directory Pain
Learn how to solve AD problems such as time synchronization after hardware replacement, cross-forest authentication, usability of the least privilege model, and 64-bit Windows challenges.
Windows IT Pro
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Guido Grillenmeier
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