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Quotes, common characters, and other quirky cronies can cause your code to croak. If your VBScript script comes to an unexpected stop, here are some problems to look for and how to solve them.


Performance

By Adam Carheden, 07/26/2005

Performance is also a factor when choosing an antivirus or content-filtering product.

Setting NTBackup to Not Use VSS

By Bob Chronister, 07/26/2005

Is it wise to disable NTBackup's use of VSS?

Paul's Picks

By Paul Thurrott, 07/26/2005

Paul rates the Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions and previews Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0.

Understanding Inherited Permissions

By Randy Franklin Smith, 07/26/2005

Learn when deny permissions override allow permissions and when allow permissions trump deny permissions.

New & Improved

By Carolyn Mader, 07/26/2005

Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: DYS Analytics' Email CONTROL!

Importing and Exporting Data

By Michael Otey, 07/26/2005

Here are the tools you can use to import data to and export data from a SQL Server 2000 database.

Cisco's Simple Route to a Secure Lab Environment

By Adam Carheden, 07/26/2005

If you're in tune with the Cisco IOS command line, you can use VLANs and ACLs to create a separate lab environment with existing equipment.

What You Need to Know About Longhorn Beta 1

By Paul Thurrott, 07/26/2005

Longhorn's security and data management features will make it a no-brainer for businesses of all sizes, and now's the time to start evaluating it.

BGInfo

By Mark Russinovich, 07/26/2005

This free tool puts system information on the desktop for easy access.

All-in-One Mobile Devices

By Jason Bovberg, 07/26/2005

Here are 19 combination devices that engorge your phone with the processing power of a PDA.

Does SUS Make You Want to Send an SOS?

By James Lim, 07/26/2005

Each time SUS downloads patches, there are always a few machines not properly patched. Here’s a handy script that checks machines to determine whether the specified patch was ...

Service Pack Manager 2000 7.1

By John D. Ruley, 07/26/2005

Gravity Storm Software's Service Pack Manager (SPM) 2000 v7.1includes distributed patch management and a useful new Windows Firewall-management feature.

When Good Scripts Go Bad

By Karen Bemowski, 07/26/2005

When you test the VBScript code you just wrote, your script screeches to a premature stop. Use these hints to help you figure out what went wrong.

Prevent Multiple Logons With GPOs

By Readers, 07/26/2005

If you need to prevent a user from logging on to multiple PCs at the same time, here’s a simple solution that uses logon and logoff scripts in GPOs.

Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

By Michael Otey, 07/26/2005

Tools for diagnosing cluster-setup and DNS problems and for burning CD-ROMs and DVDs join old standbys to make the new resource kit the best yet.

Letters@windowsitpro.com

By Readers, 07/26/2005

Windows IT Pro welcomes feedback about the magazine. Send comments to letters@windowsitpro.com

Vendor Briefings

By Editors, 07/26/2005

Editors share insights from their conversations with The Neverfail Group and V-Secure Technologies. Plus, learn about the winners of Best of Show at TechEd in June.

Hardening IIS 6.0

By Roger A. Grimes, 07/26/2005

Follow Microsoft guidelines to establish a secure Web server on a Windows 2003 and IIS 6.0 platform.

Trunking

By Adam Carheden, 07/26/2005

Here's an alternative method for routing traffic between two subnets.

Beat Back Viruses

By Adam Carheden, 07/26/2005

See how the top 5 email antivirus contestants from our 2004 Readers' Choice awards stack up.

SQL Server 101: Management Fundamentals

By Michael Otey, 07/26/2005

You're a Windows administrator, not a DBA—so how do you manage that SQL Server machine on your company's Windows network? Start making sense of SQL Server administration by ...

Ask the Experts

By Editors, 07/26/2005

Our IT experts tell you how to track system time changes, explain the hierarchy of inherited permissions, discuss changing your AD topology after an Exchange 2003 consolidation ...

What You Need to Know About The Microsoft Certified Architect Program

By Dianne Russell, 07/26/2005

Learn about the new accreditation program that Microsoft announced in June 2005.

Email Xray 2.6

By John Green, 07/26/2005

This Outlook add-on offers a safe way to view messages and all their attachments—even those that Outlook blocks

Softricity SoftGrid 3.1

By Michael Otey, 07/26/2005

End DLL Hell by using Softricity's SoftGrid to ease client application deployment and management.

Consolidating mailboxes

By Paul Robichaux, 07/26/2005

Does an Exchange 2003 consolidation require changing your AD topology?

Cut Down on Calls to the Help Desk

By Ben Smith, 07/26/2005

Streamlining Help desk operations can help reduce IT support costs, but don't stop there. Reducing the total volume of support calls results in impressive ROI.

What's Hot

By Carolyn Mader, 07/26/2005

Readers highlight favorite products: vizioncore esxRanger, PatchLink PATCHLINK UPDATE, ScaleOut Software ScaleOut StateServer, UltraBac Software UltraBac 8.0, and SpamBayes.

Scripts Save Small Company Some Considerable Cash

By Bill Stewart, 07/26/2005

IT pros don’t typically generate revenue, but they can solve real business problems and cut costs with scripts.

Monad Is Cool; DPM Is Done

By Karen Forster, 07/26/2005

Monad and Data Protection Manager are stars in beta and will incorporate customer feedback in their final versions.

Windows Error Reporting: Elementary, My Dear Watson

By Karen Forster, 07/26/2005

Do Microsoft's requests for information about crashes seem like a cruel joke? Discover how much of a difference your responses can make.

More SQL Server Tools

By Michael Otey, 07/26/2005

Here are three additional tools that no novice Microsoft SQL Server administrator should be without.


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