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Explore the top 2009 products in 30 categories, as voted by the Windows IT Pro editors and the community.


Disk2vhd: The Windows Troubleshooter's New Best Friend

By Michael Morales, 12/03/2009

What can you do to shorten a call to Microsoft support? Use Disk2vhd, a new Windows Sysinternals tool that converts your physical system to a .vhd image. In many cases, support ...

2009 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards

By Editors, 11/19/2009

Picking a favorite product from an impressive crowd of competitive offerings is never an easy task, and such was the case with our Editors' Best and Community Choice awards this ...

Preparing for SharePoint 2010

By Joel Oleson, 11/19/2009

Take these steps now to optimize your environment for upgrading to SharePoint 2010 when it's released.

To Deploy or Not To Deploy

By Michele Crockett, 11/18/2009

Gather some insights into the decision-making for determining which of Microsoft's 2010 product releases to include in your IT budget.

Exchange 2010: High Availability with DAGs

By Tony Redmond, 11/12/2009

Microsoft has developed a high-availability architecture for Exchange Server 2010 by using log replication for database copies through Database Availability Groups (DAGs). Here's ...

Tool Time: Connect to Remote Machines with Royal TS

By Dennis Wynne, 11/06/2009

Royal TS is a great lightweight replacement for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Remote Desktop snap-in—and the older versions are free.

Monitor Network Connections with Pingmon

By Bill Aycock, 11/06/2009

Rather than spending money on a commercial program or digging through huge ping logs, you can use the Pingmon script to monitor your network connections.

Get Updates on Microsoft Updates

By Brandon Jones, 11/06/2009

Here's a VBScript script that details how many Microsoft updates are installed and the date of the most recently installed update on Windows XP machines.

NTFS Inheritance Rule Change

By Murat Yildirimoglu, 11/06/2009

One of the NTFS inheritance rules changed in Windows 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. You need to know about this change if you move files on these OSs.

Retrieve Information from Open Browsing Sessions

By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 11/06/2009

If you need to retrieve information from an open Internet Explorer (IE) browsing session, try Get-IEUrl.ps1. With this PowerShell script, you can get and save web pages' URLs, ...

What You Need to Know About Office Web Applications

By Paul Thurrott, 11/03/2009

Office Web Applications are four web-based applications that provide an Office-like user experience and a good percentage of the functionality one would expect from a traditional ...

Protect Your PowerShell Scripts

By Robert Sheldon, 10/20/2009

Here are three precautions that will go a long way in protecting your PowerShell scripts and securing your system.

New Features in vSphere 4.0

By Michael Otey, 10/15/2009

VMware's latest virtualization platform, vSphere 4.0, provides a native 64-bit hypervisor for improved scalability and performance as well as adding new management and ...

Monitor Windows Server with Performance Counters

By Tom Carpenter, 10/12/2009

Use these 10 performance counters to track core performance factors on Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2003 systems.

New Hyper-V Features in Windows Server 2008 R2

By John Savill, 08/11/2009

Make your virtual environments highly available with Live Migration and Cluster Shared Volumes, updated features worth checking out in Windows Server 2008 R2.


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