By Desmond Lee, 10/31/2007
An often-overlooked task after the initial setup of a virtual machine (VM) running the Windows guest OS is installing the optional Virtual Machine Additions.
By John Savill, 10/30/2007
Find out how to force the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) responder update to run on Windows Server 2003.
By Eric B. Rux, 10/30/2007
If change management is as important in your organization as managing Group Policy, here’s our take on three products that help you do both.
By Jeff James, 10/30/2007
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: VMware's ESX Server 3i
By Kevin Laahs, 10/30/2007
Stsadm helps IT pros perform SharePoint operations that can't be done or done as efficiently through SharePoint's Central Administration Web interface.
By Readers, 10/30/2007
There's a trick to using the Runas command with Windows Explorer: You first need to make a registry edit. Here is what you need to do.
By Rhonda Layfield, 10/30/2007
Looking for a no-muss, no-fuss way to create and deploy a new Vista or XP installation? Microsoft’s Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment’s (BDD’s) Deployment ...
By Orin Thomas, 10/30/2007
Manage your printers more efficiently by knowing how to properly share a printer, install extra drivers, use snap-ins and command-line utilities, configure pools and permissions, ...
By Desmond Lee, 10/30/2007
Microsoft’s virtualization architecture paves the way to an almost seamless integration and interoperability between Virtual PC and Virtual Server. Download the free products and ...
By Brien Posey, 10/30/2007
Think big first--consider important measures such as employing an external filter before you tackle low-level server configuration.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 10/30/2007
Vista's Copy as Path option and Ninotech's Path Copy utility can save you time and aggravation if you need to copy paths that appear in Windows Explorer.
By Mark Russinovich, 10/30/2007
Follow along as Mark troubleshoots a failed file compression problem.
By Jeff James, 10/30/2007
This year's Windows IT Pro Innovators award winners find inventive solutions to problems ranging from automating Web-site creation to auditing access to applications to meet ...
By Darren Mar-Elia, 10/30/2007
Find out whether there's a way to move software packages to another server without triggering a reinstallation of the deployed applications.
By Paul Thurrott, 10/30/2007
In this month's Need to Know, Paul takes an in-depth at Google products and services that might be workable alternatives to more expensive Microsoft offerings.
By Mark Minasi, 10/30/2007
In this last of three For columns, learn how the tool's /f option lets you tell Windows to apply a single command to a specific list of files.
By B. K. Winstead, 10/30/2007
Exchange Server administrators rarely have the time or resources to keep their environments running smoothly all the time. Find an Exchange monitoring solution to help accomplish ...
By Paul Thurrott, 10/30/2007
Can Google Pack with StarOffice match Microsoft Office, and is Windows Vista SP1 worth the wait? Check out Paul's reviews this mont to find out.
By Damir Dizdarevic, 10/30/2007
Learn how to apply Windows Server 2008’s Network Access Protection (NAP), which lets administrators enforce compliance policies before client computers can access network ...
By Darren Mar-Elia, 10/30/2007
Learn about problems associated with moving a software package to a new server, find out how to convert an ADM file to an ADMX file, and follow along as Mark Russinovich ...
By John Savill, 10/30/2007
Use Microsoft's ADMX Migrator tool to convert ADM Group Policy template files to the new ADMX format.
By Michael Otey, 10/30/2007
Windows PowerShell is the wave of the future of Windows scripting. These commands get you started performing basic tasks such as reading or writing to a file, starting a debugger, ...
By Jeff James, 10/30/2007
Readers highlight favorite products: SourceForge.net's PDFCreator, the OpenDNS online service, and Thinstall Virtualization Suite.
By Apostolos Fotakelis, 10/30/2007
If your users have to change IP addresses often, you can create a batch file that contains just three Netsh commands. After you put that batch file on users' desktops, they can ...
By Karen Forster, 10/30/2007
With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft takes another step toward positioning its key applications as "platforms" that underlie—and are required by—other core technologies. How does that ...
By Orin Thomas, 10/30/2007
Printer problems? No worries—follow these 3 troubleshooting tips to find out what's wrong with your printers.
By John Green, 10/30/2007
BioPassword Enterprise Edition 3.2 improves network security by monitoring user biometrics: It senses how users type their passwords, then evaluates typing rhythm and cadence to ...
By John Green, 10/30/2007
Microsoft Remote Desktop is fine for occasional use, but for heavy-duty user support, our reviewer much prefers Famatech's Radmin 3.0 remote-control utility is preferable. Replete ...
By John Savill, 10/30/2007
Learn whether it's possible to upgrade from Windows 2008 Server Core to Windows 2008.
By Brien Posey, 10/30/2007
Before you turn your attention to individual security settings, think through big-picture issues such as limiting yourself to one version of Exchange and using the different ...