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2007 IT Innovators: Put Their Ideas to Work

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Got a technical problem to solve? These winning solutions might save you some pain and suffering. This year's innovators give their fixes for problems from automating Web-site creation to auditing access to applications to meet compliance mandates.


Essential Virtual Machine Additions

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.

Running the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) responder update for Windows XP on Windows Server 2003

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.

3 Tools to Manage Group Policy

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.

New & Improved

By Jeff James, 10/30/2007

Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: VMware's ESX Server 3i

Stsadm: Taking Control of SharePoint Administration

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.

The Trick to Accessing Remote Files with Explorer.exe

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.

Using Deployment Workbench

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 ...

Printer Management Essentials

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, ...

Extending Virtual PC with Virtual Server

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 ...

Steps to Protect Your Exchange 2007 Organization

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.

Hidden Option, Free Utility Can Be Real Time-Savers If You Copy File Paths Often

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.

The Case of the Failed File Compression

By Mark Russinovich, 10/30/2007

Follow along as Mark troubleshoots a failed file compression problem.

Windows IT Pro Innovators Share Their Successes

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 ...

Moving a Deployed Software Package to a New Server

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.

What You Need to Know About Google Apps

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.

The Final For

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.

Letters@windowsitpro.com

By Editors, 10/30/2007

Exchange Server Monitoring Tools

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 ...

Paul's Picks

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.

Network Access Protection in Windows Server 2008

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 ...

Ask the Experts

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 ...

Converting an ADM File into an ADMX File

By John Savill, 10/30/2007

Use Microsoft's ADMX Migrator tool to convert ADM Group Policy template files to the new ADMX format.

Essential Windows PowerShell Commands

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, ...

Readers Review Hot Products

By Jeff James, 10/30/2007

Readers highlight favorite products: SourceForge.net's PDFCreator, the OpenDNS online service, and Thinstall Virtualization Suite.

Use Netsh to Easily Change IP Addresses

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 ...

SQL Server 2008: Goodbye, Database; Hello, Data Platform

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 ...

Troubleshooting Printer Problems

By Orin Thomas, 10/30/2007

Printer problems? No worries—follow these 3 troubleshooting tips to find out what's wrong with your printers.

BioPassword Enterprise Edition 3.2

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 ...

Radmin 3.0

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 ...

Upgrading from Server Core to Windows 2008

By John Savill, 10/30/2007

Learn whether it's possible to upgrade from Windows 2008 Server Core to Windows 2008.

Securing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

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 ...


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What's the best way to keep your network safe from malware? In this web seminar, security expert Greg Shields suggests an alternative method to the traditional blacklisting approach that is common with anti-virus and anti-malware solutions.

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