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AD Gold: Mine These Less-Known Active Directory Tools

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Expanding your AD toolkit makes administration easier and more efficient. Explore these excellent AD tools to improve disaster recovery, help you monitor FRS, build better scripts, prevent accidental deletion, better manage access, and more.


Market Watch: Windows Mobile

By Zac Wiggy, 10/26/2009

The iPhone and others are taking a bigger share of the market from Windows Mobile. What does its future hold?

Letters

By Various Authors, 10/26/2009

Readers respond to another great PowerShell script from Bill Stewart, another strong collection of free tools from Douglas Toombs, the tone of Paul Thurrott's EU commentaries, and ...

USB Endpoint Security Solutions

By Caroline Marwitz, 10/26/2009

All it takes for a data breach is one employee and a USB flash drive or iPod. Get started on your search for an endpoint security solution with advice and products to consider.

Transport Rules and Message Classifications in Exchange 2007

By William Lefkovics, 10/23/2009

Use transport rules and message classifications, 2 features of Exchange Server 2007, to enforce corporate policy, adhere to compliance initiatives, and get granular control over ...

AD Gold Nuggets

By Sean Deuby, 10/23/2009

Explore some lesser-known tools to make Active Directory administration easier.

Window Shopping for 2010 IT Purchases

By Michele Crockett, 10/23/2009

Although IT expenditures will remain relatively flat next year, almost 60 percent of our readers plan to deploy Windows 7.

Protect AD from Administrative Errors

By James R. Day, 10/23/2009

We all know that mistakes happen, but in AD, they can be disastrous. Here's how you can help prevent mistakes in a production environment instead of just reacting to them.

Log Manager Roundup

By Lance Whitney, 10/23/2009

Event log managers can simplify your life by helping you monitor and manage your event logs, find specific events, and generate reports.

Further Adventures in Debugging

By Ryan Mangipano, 10/23/2009

Get familiar with using the Windows debugger to identify the source of system-related problems by using five helpful tips.

Review: Axceler ControlPoint

By Curt Spanburgh, 10/23/2009

If managing your SharePoint footprint is giving you indigestion, Axceler ControlPoint could be the tonic you've been looking for.

Spicing Up SharePoint Search Results

By Ryan Thomas, 10/22/2009

You don't want a huge lesson in enterprise information architecture or a grand scheme for overhauling your SharePoint environment. You just want some tips and some ...

What You Need to Know About Hyper-V 2.0

By Paul Thurrott, 10/22/2009

Hyper-V has gotten a major makeover, both as part of Windows Server 2008 R2 and as a standalone bare metal server. If you haven’t gotten your feet wet in virtualization, now’s the ...

Paul's Picks

By Paul Thurrott, 10/22/2009

Cloud computing, Microsoft-style, involves strategy—but will it work? And why Snow Leopard won’t make you leave Windows, at least not yet.

Tool Time: WinDirStat Simplifies Finding Where Your Disk Space Is Going

By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 10/15/2009

If you need to find out why a hard drive is running out of free space, try WinDirStat. This free tool provides multiple views of file-space usage.

New Active Directory Features in Windows Server 2008 R2

By John Savill, 09/03/2009

Active Directory features in Windows 2008 R2 include some super capabilities for AD deployments both large and small: useful manageability features, Managed Service Accounts, and ...

New Features in Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

By Michael Otey, 09/02/2009

Microsoft's fast-growing Virtual Machine Manager 2008 has added key new features with R2: Live Migrations, rapid provisioning, Quick Storage Migration, host compatibility checks, ...

Time to Round Up Those Scripts

By Jim Turner, 06/17/2009

If you have scripts scattered all over the place on your computer, try ScriptRoundUp.vbs. It locates scripts meeting your criteria, then copies them to a central location so you ...


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