In every issue of TechNet Magazine , Greg Steen (a practicing IT professional) discusses free and relatively inexpensive tools and utilities that help him do his IT work and "getting the job done."  In the November issue, Greg looks at...

In this month’s TechNet Magazine , you’ll find the second of a series of Field Notes columns written by Romi Mahajan, Chief Marketing Officer of Ascentium Corporation. As an early innovator in the field of electronic communications, Romi has been exploring...

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...

Want to be proactive about preventing data loss? Enterprise rights management is the way to go. Discover how    the Microsoft Enterprise Rights Management solution can protect your organization's information from unauthorized access and use...

In the November 2008 installment of our Windows PowerShell column (which is available online ), Don Jones demonstrates how to create a tool that will inventory the operating system build number (this is one of the best ways to determine the OS version...

In the era of Softwar e-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...

"For developers, one difficult problem in SQL Server is tracking what data has changed in a database. An even greater challenge is architecting a simple solution that doesn’t heavily impact workload performance and isn't difficult to create...

Whether you develop Web content yourself or just support your local webmaster, here's a free Microsoft utility to make your job easier. Lance Whitney shows how the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar lets you peek behind the scenes in order to troubleshoot...

Here’s just a sample of the questions answered in this month’s column: Q Our organization, which uses Exchange Server 2007, is in the planning stages of deploying standby continuous replication (SCR). We want to have a second set of data for each of the...

With SP1 installed, ConfigMgr works with Windows Server 2008 just as it does with other versions of Windows. The November 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine offers a quick overview of how you can use ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 to monitor your Windows Server 2008...

The much-anticipated release of Windows Server 2008 introduced significant changes to the OS, adding powerful functionality such as server core, server roles,  read-only DCs, Hyper-V, Terminal Services Gateway, and enhancement support for Internet...

Virtualization is hot now adays, but Terminal Services has been abstracting the presentation layer of remotely run applications and desktops for years. A lot has changed over the years, and with Windows Server 2008, Terminal Services has truly become...

If you’re an OpsMgr 2007 administrator, chances are good that you’ll be crea ting custom monitoring objects (rules, groups, and so forth), and for each one you build, you have to decide what target to use. That’s a critical decision, but knowing how to...

The November 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online.   FEATURE ARTICLES                                                                  ...