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Certificate Lifecycle Manager: Identify, Authenticate, Secure

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Microsoft attempts to tackle the user authentication space with its CLM. Find out how this revamped version of Alacris's idNexus product can add advanced certificate and smart card management capabilities to your Windows PKI.


Preventing Users from Using the Remember password Feature

By Randy Franklin Smith, 09/26/2006

Learn how you can prevent users from using the Remember password feature for Web applications and shared folders.

Finding Entries in the GAL by Job Title

By Sue Mosher, 09/26/2006

Learn how to use the GAL to find employees who have a certain job title.

Plan and Implement a Secure Wireless Network

By Ed Roth, 09/26/2006

Is your company ready to deploy a wireless network? Here are seven basic steps to setting up a safe and secure WLAN.

Migration Glitch in SharePoint Portal Server

By Alan Sugano, 09/26/2006

If you've installed the test version of SharePoint Portal Server with SQL Server 2000 and want to upgrade to the production version of SharePoint Portal Server with SQL Server ...

10 Keys to Command Shell Scripting

By Bill Stewart, 09/26/2006

A carelessly written shell script can cause potentially serious problems. These 10 guidelines will help you avoid those problems and create more robust scripts that work in ...

Letters to the Editor

By Editors, 09/26/2006

Readers comment on articles and offer a useful tip for changing passwords on the command line.

Global Outsourcing: Trick or Treat?

By Ben Smith, 09/26/2006

Offshoring can be beneficial to business—or not. Learn the pros and cons of offshoring to understand the hype surrounding it.

Bridge the SharePoint File-Restore Gap

By Jeff Sandler, 09/26/2006

In SharePoint, you can't easily restore files accidentally deleted from a SharePoint content database. But you can use an automated backup script and a variety of file-restore ...

What You Need to Know About SQL Server Everywhere

By Paul Thurrott, 09/26/2006

A new version of SQL Server 2005 is aimed at Windows Mobile PDAs and smartphones and Windows-based portable computers. But does its portability offset its limitations?

Desktop Provisioning and Management

By Alan Sugano, 09/26/2006

The benefits and features of desktop provisioning and management software vary from vendor from vendor. Before you buy, you'll have to do more research and evaluation than usual.

What's Hot

By Blake Eno, 09/26/2006

Readers highlight favorite products: Gensortium's GenControl, PlateSpin PowerConvert, Qnext, Golden Bow Systems' VoptXP

What You Need to Know About Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs

By Paul Thurrott, 09/26/2006

Microsoft is revisiting thin-client computing. Find out how—and whether—Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs can help your organization put legacy PCs to productive use.

Netsh Adds Security to IPsec

By Mark Minasi, 09/26/2006

Continuing his discussion of IPsec and Netsh, Mark takes a look at an important modification of last month's topic: encrypting and digitally signing traffic to and from a Web ...

Exchange Management Software

By Anne Grubb, 09/26/2006

Exchange organizations come in many sizes, with many different needs. Wherever your organization falls, this buyer's guide will help you pick the Exchange management software ...

Virtual PC Security Solution

By Anne Grubb, 09/26/2006

Virtual PC 2004 as a security tool? Take a look at IT pro Mike Nichol's nontraditional use for Microsoft's free desktop virtualization product.

Running Windows with No Services

By Mark Russinovich, 09/26/2006

Follow along as Mark Russinovich shows how to run a minimal Windows configuration.

New & Improved, October 2006

By Readers, 09/26/2006

Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT New Boundary Technologies' Policy Commander

Introducing Microsoft Certificate Lifecycle Manager

By Jan De Clercq, 09/26/2006

Windows has always lacked advanced certificate, smart card, and USB token management features. Now Microsoft remedies the situation with CLM, a rebranded and revamped version of ...

Paul's Picks

By Paul Thurrott, 09/26/2006

Check out these summaries of Paul Thurrott's reviews on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 and Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2.

Ask the Experts, October 2006

By Various Authors, 09/26/2006

Our experts answer your questions about GAL searches, adding contacts in Outlook, disabling the Remember password feature, and more.

Google Applications

By Michael Otey, 09/26/2006

It seems that everyone uses Google's search engine, but the company isn't resting on its laurels.

What You Need to Know About IE 7.0 Corporate Distribution

By Paul Thurrott, 09/26/2006

Although IE 7.0 will be distributed as a high-priority update through Microsoft's update services, you can choose whether to accept it.

Virtualization Products

By Michael Otey, 09/26/2006

Here's a guide to the leading virtualization products.

Just-In-Time or Just-Too-Much Information?

By Karen Forster, 09/26/2006

How do you consume information, and how can Windows IT Pro—-and Microsoft—-better provide the information you need and want?

Vendor Briefings, October 2006

By Editors, 09/26/2006

Our editors share insights from their conversations with Plus Technologies, Decru, and Network Appliance.


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