By Readers, 06/28/2007
Besides using the Shutdown command in a batch file, you can use PsShutdown to shut down client computers.
By Blake Eno, 06/28/2007
Readers highlight favorite products: CorasWorks Workplace Suite, O'Reilly Media's "Active Directory Cookbook," and High Tower Software's High Tower SEM 3210.
By Jason Bovberg, 06/28/2007
KVM over IP switches can improve IT efficiency, but make sure you choose a KVM solution wisely—our buyer's guide can help you navigate through the many choices and models ...
By Paul Thurrott, 06/28/2007
Windows Calendar provides a good, web-compatibale alternative to Outlook's calendar features. Windows Home Server Beta 2 is a good choice for both home users and small offices.
By Editors, 06/28/2007
Readers praise authors Ben Smith and Eric Rux, weigh in on VoIP and Office 2007 Deployment, and more.
By John Green, 06/28/2007
Do you need an event log management product that can provide you with archiving, reporting, and monitoring functionality? Here are six products that do just that.
By John Savill, 06/28/2007
If you install Windows Vista's DreamScene add-on, you can use a video as your desktop background.
By Michael Otey, 06/28/2007
More than just a VB Script or Powershell script editor, the latest PrimalScript package is chockfull of powerful apps and training resources.
By John Savill, 06/28/2007
Windows Deployment Services eases the task of rolling out Vista to enterprise computers.
By Brien Posey, 06/28/2007
After installing Exchange 2007, you'll need to configure your servers. Here are the steps to follow to set up the Mailbox, Client Access, and Hub Transport server roles.
By Blake Eno, 06/28/2007
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Alacritech's Scalable Network Accelerators and iSCSI Scalable Network Accelerators
By Karen Forster, 06/28/2007
Karen Forster look sat Windows Server 2008's and Vista's Network Access Protection (NAP), technology that can keep your network safe no matter what your users' computers throw at ...
By Robert Sheldon, 06/28/2007
By John Savill, 06/28/2007
Try these techniques for running two commands together at a command prompt.
By B. K. Winstead, 06/28/2007
In the absence of commercial migration tools, Stefan Suesser developed a scripting toolkit to move his company from Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0 to SMS 2003.
By Russell Smith, 06/28/2007
The Windows Server 2003 Security Guide gives you powerful templates for hardening security, but plan your deployment carefully and watch out for these gotchas.
By Apostolos Fotakelis, 06/28/2007
Using a .reg file, a batch file, and Group Policy, you can allow cookies but prevent users from downloading unwanted and possibly malicious files and ActiveX objects.
By Michael Otey, 06/28/2007
Make sure you've got Windows Vista organized so you can effectively perform your administrative functions.
By John Savill, 06/28/2007
Learn about a compatibility problem between Acrobat Reader 8 and Vista's UAC feature, find out how to use a video for your desktop background, and learn how to chain two or more ...
By Paul Thurrott, 06/28/2007
The buzz around Windows Server 2008 has been loud, but with Microsoft releasing beta 3, all that hype may just turn out to be justified.
By Brien Posey, 06/28/2007
Follow these basic steps to configure your Mailbox, Client Access, and Hub Transport server roles.
By Ed Roth, 06/28/2007
SCCM 2007 is the new incarnation of Microsoft's vaunted SMS. Want to know how it can benefit your environment? Here's a look at the product's architecture, as well as its new and ...
By John Savill, 06/28/2007
Disabling Vista's UAC feature can interfere with installing Acrobat Reader.
By Readers, 06/28/2007
Here's a tool that lets you automatically change the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS server for Ethernet and wireless network adapters. Fortunately, it's much simpler to ...
By Emer McKenna, 06/28/2007
Integration features in Outlook, Exchange, and SharePoint can help you begin to transition away from using public folders to using SharePoint.
By Mark Minasi, 06/28/2007
In response to an Icacls shortcoming, Mark creates a freely downloadable tool called Chml, which lets you further your integrity-level experiments.