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The new version of SQL Server offers a host of new features and enhancements that promise to improve performance, increase security, and make life better for database administrators. Here’s an overview of the key changes and what you can expect from SQL Server 2008.
Randy Dyess
TechNet Magazine April 2008
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Wikis offer a new, more flexible way to collaborate, promoting an unstructured approach to thinking and exchanging ideas. And MOSS 2007 makes it incredibly easy to implement wikis in your organization. Here’s what you need to know to start building and using wikis in the workplace.
Mauro Cardarelli
TechNet Magazine January 2007
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This month we continue our in-depth discussion about what’s new in the Windows Vista kernel. In this issue, we review some advancements in how Windows Vista manages memory and explore the areas of system startup, shutdown, and power management.
Mark Russinovich
TechNet Magazine March 2007
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Backup is something many people ignore until it’s too late. But there’s no excuse for this, especially now that the new Windows Vista Backup and Restore Center offers a variety of features that make it easy to protect your data against most forms of data loss. Find out how you can plan a complete recovery strategy with Windows Vista.
Christine Fok
TechNet Magazine September 2007
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PsTools provides a gaggle of useful utilities for system administration. Explore all the tools this free suite has to offer and learn how you can use them to do everything from changing a user account password and viewing a user's SID to gathering system information and managing processes.
Wes Miller
TechNet Magazine March 2007
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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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It's been about 8 years since "The 10 Immutable Laws of Security" were first published, and a lot has changed since then. In the last few installments of our Security Watch column, Jesper Johansson has been analyzing the immutable laws to see if they still hold true after all this time.
In the December 2008 issue of
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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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Have you ever wondered why you sometimes get a message that says Windows can't replace a file that is currently in use? In the November 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine, Raymond Chen looks at the underlying reason for this and explains why it would be more accurate to say Windows can but has chosen not to ...
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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the Microsoft implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM)—a technology that lets you access information about the objects in your enterprise environment that have to be managed, such as systems, applications, networks, devices, and other managed components. Not surprisingly, the information is accessible via script ...
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