SQL Server 2008 offers more powerful relational data warehousing capabilities. Take a close look at key performancerelated data warehousing features and find out how you can use all this new technology to optimize query performance.

By S. Agarwal, T. Grabs, and J. Hammer (April 2008)

Windows Server 2008 and the new Windows Server Backup utility bring many changes and welcome enhancements to backing up. Here is an in-depth guide to backing up and restoring Active Directory in the new server OS.

By Gil Kirkpatrick (May 2008)

Users have complained for years that clustering in Windows Server is too complicated. With the release of Windows Server 2008, clustering received a complete facelift. Explore some of the most significant advancements found in the new Failover Clustering, and see how this new implementation makes clusters much easier to set up and maintain.

By Chuck Timon (July 2008)

When you want to reduce the total cost of ownership of the desktop machines in your organization, application lockdown can be a great help, letting you limit IT issues related to unsupported applications. See how you can use software restriction policies and Group Policy to control the applications being run throughout your IT infrastructure.

By Chris Corio and Durga Prasad Sayana (June 2008)

David Tesar recently posted an interview with Mark Russinovich. In the interview, Mark discusses joining ...
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In his third installment on Windows Deployment Services, Wes Miller explores features that enhance performance and scalability, logging, and command-line automation. Notable in this column are the powerful new command-line utility for management, WDSUtil.exe, and the WDS Image ...
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In the September 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine,  Raymond Chen reflects on how some left over diagnostic code unexpectedly Read more!

As the Scripting Guy notes, the old phrase "you can run but you can't hide" was never more true than it is today— when even your toaster can be Internet-enabled. But disconnection happens, and then what do you do? We—or rather the scripting guys—are ...
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Pav Cherny discusses the limitations of the built-in Directory Management Service in SharePoint and explains how you can replace this component with a custom solution that lets you synchronize SharePoint recipient information with other directory solutions. In particular, he ...
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"One of the common things that administrators must deal with on an ever-increasing basis is the regular changing of the password for shared and privileged accounts, such as the built-in administrator or root account, a firecall account, or perhaps even a process account." In the Read more!