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December 2005

COVER STORY


 
Seeking the IT Professional
Our second annual industry survey paints an intriguing picture of IT professionals.
Amy Eisenberg

How We Surveyed
Amy Eisenberg


 
The Money You Make, and How It Compares
You've responded to our survey, and we've collated the results. Now it's time to see how you're doing compared to your peers according to such determiners as job function, gender, age, experience, education, company demographics, and geographic region.
Jason Bovberg


 
Are You Satisfied?
You told us about how your job affects you and what you think about it. Interpreting all the data was daunting, but we learned a lot about IT pros' job satisfaction.
Dianne Russell


FEATURES


 
Windows IT Pro Salutes the 2005 Innovators Award Winners!
Windows IT Pro recognizes nine IT pros for their technical know-how and resourcefulness in using Windows technology to solve real-world business problems.
Anne Grubb


 
R2 Moves Windows Server 2003 Forward
Key DFS replication enhancements, a brand-new identity management capability, storage management improvements, and more new features offer appealing reasons to upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Release 2 (R2).
John Savill

ADFS Architecture
John Savill


 
Easy 802.11g Security
Send hackers packing by protecting your wireless APs and clients with 6 simple steps.
Jeff Fellinge

Advanced Authentication
Jeff Fellinge


 
Ask the Experts

Every month, our experts answer your questions. Click the links above to see individual Q&As from this months column.


Editors

Assigning Different Permissions to Different Departments
Randy Franklin Smith

Changing the Default Location for .Ost and .Pst Files
Sue Mosher

Managing Office Disabled Items
Supposedly, the disablement of Office documents happens on a per-user basis. However, one reader encountered a situation in which an entire domain of users all had the same documents showing up as disabled. Here’s how he fixed the problem.
Readers

The Easy Way to Delete Unused Profiles
If your PCs are cluttered with unused profiles, you can use the Delprof utility to delete those profiles that haven’t been used for a specified number of days.
Apostolos Fotakelis


COLUMNS


 
Surviving or Thriving in IT
An intriguing new IT network's in the making, and our annual IT Industry Survey gives you the skinny on how Windows IT pros are doing—and what they think about their profession.
Karen Forster


 
What you need to know about Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager
The market for continuous data protection products is starting to heat up. Paul Thurrott revisits DPM (formerly Data Protection Server—DPS) now that he has some experience deploying and managing a DPM server.
Paul Thurrott

Can You Hear Me Now?
Readers ask how Exchange 2003 SP2 will make Exchange competitive with other mobile solutions and let IT pros consolidate and manage email and messaging technology. Read responses from the Exchange and Windows Mobile product teams.
Karen Forster

Can We Talk About That Offline?
Karen Forster


 
Help Wanted
Take control of the hiring process with these five simple yet effective strategies.
Ben Smith


 
PsLoglist
This free tool helps you harvest event-log data from across your network.
Mark Russinovich


 
Windows Scripting Tips
These 10 tips can make your scripting efforts more productive and at the same time help you write better scripts.
Michael Otey

Letters@windowsitpro.com
Your letters about Windows Vista's least privilege feature, identity management, and more.
Readers, et al.


PRODUCTS AND REVIEWS

New & Improved
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT Messageware's AttachView 7.0
Carolyn Mader


 
MIMO Wireless Access Points
Three vendors provide MIMO access point products that improve the range of your wireless connection.
Adam Carheden

Akonix L7 CM5000 Appliance
Keep a lid on IM and p2p traffic in your organization
Adam Carheden

IntelliPolicy for Clients
Extend Group Policy's reach and gain more control over client systems.
Adam Carheden

Vendor Briefings
Our editors share insights from their conversations with LANDesk Software, Shavlik Technologies, Symantec, and Avocent Technologies
Editors


 
What's Hot
Readers highlight favorite products: N2U Production’s PE Builder, DameWare Development’s Mini Remote Control, IntelliReach’s Content Inspector, and Vircom’s ModusGate.
Readers

 
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