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See how this free utility can help you determine whether problems you are experiencing while running Windows are caused by faulty memory.
Lance Whitney
TechNet Magazine September 2008
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User Account Control, or UAC, is one of the most misunderstood new features in Windows Vista. But its goal—to enable users to run with standard user rights—can solve many security issues. Get an inside look at the problems UAC is designed to address and see exactly how this new feature works.
Mark Russinovich
TechNet Magazine June 2007
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Your users are complaining that a server is running poorly—do you know where to look to diagnose the problem? PerfMon can be an indispensible tool for this as it has numerous diagnostic capabilities. Get an overview of the key indicators you should use to diagnose a variety of common bottlenecks that can slow down your servers.
Steven Choy
TechNet Magazine August 2008
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Many organizations rely on ISA Server 2006 to secure their environment, but few take the important step of securing ISA Server itself. Here’s a guide to using the Security Configuration Wizard and Administrative roles to limit its attack surface and secure your ISA Server 2006 implementation.
Alan Maddison
TechNet Magazine September 2008
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Face it, most of the users you support just don't back up there data. SyncToy provides an unintrusive way to ensure your users' files are always backed up and ready to be easily restored.
Jay Munro
TechNet Magazine March 2007
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Did you just go “whoa!” when you saw that title? Bet you never thought you’d see that here! But the times, as they say, are a-changing and we have too. Many organizations today use multiple operating systems. We all have the same goal of providing high-quality, cost-effective IT services to the organization, and one way we can do that is by sharing core software infrastructure like Active Directory. ...
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Last year around this time, TechNet Magazine featured an article about the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report - a comprehensive study by the Microsft Malware Protection Center of the computer security landscape. Well, the latest SIR (volume 5) has just been released, and it's packed with a detailed analysis of current threats, as well as updates on available countermeasures. Head ...
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In the era of Software-plus-Services, Web services play an important role because they decouple hosted back-end environments from on-premise front-end applications. Explore how the SharePoint platform drives online collaboration, so that Office applications and add-ins can run on local workstations while Web ...
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The complexity of systems today makes troubleshooting more difficult than ever. It’s harder to keep track of what has changed, when, and how that relates to everything else. If something goes wrong, chances are good that users will have a hard time figuring out what has changed on their computers, whether due to updates, new software, ...
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Proxy authentication lets users perform a simple bind to an Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services instance but still have an association to an Active Directory account. This can be very useful: it gives developers full access to a user object without giving them access to the Active Directory account, and it allows products that require the X.500 format to be used with Active Directory. ...
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