In the August 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine , the Scripting Guys are on sentry duty... No, wait. This month the Microsoft Scripting Guys are brushing up on their World Series trivia... Hold on, what's this about meat hooks? Sorry, that can't be right...

Coming up in next month's issue of TechNet Magazine , Laura Hunter - a Windows Server MVP - joins us with an excellent article highlighting 11 Essential Tools for Managing Active Directory . These are the kind of tools that can make the job of an IT administrator...

Sometimes the simplest things can make a world of difference. In the August 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine , Lance Whitney highlights a classic Sysinternals tool: BGInfo . Written by Bryce Cogswell, BGInfo automatically collects information about your...

The third part of our Microsoft System Center focus in the August issue of TechNet Magazine takes a look at System Center Essentials 2007. Getting Started with System Center Essentials 2007 System Center Essentials 2007 provides monitoring, troubleshooting...

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a new suite of Internet protocols designed to improve on (and fix some problems with) the current version of IP, otherwise known as IPv4. You've probably heard of IPv6, but perhaps wondered when these slick new features...

In the August issue of TechNet Magazine , Don Jones shows you how Windows PowerShell can help you write scripts that act against multiple remote computers . You could use WMI, but Windows PowerShell is better suited to batch operations thanks to its basis...

Our coverage of Microsoft System Center in the August issue of TechNet Magazine continues with another component of the System Center suite: System Center Operations Manager 2007. Keep an Eye on Your Servers with Operations Manager 2007 System Center...

Public key infrastructure (PKI) represents one of the foundation elements of security in Windows. With Windows Vista and the upcoming Windows Server 2008, the Windows PKI platform gains support for advanced algorithms, real-time validity checking, and...

There's a very interesting commentary piece by Gary Kamiya now available on Salon.com entitled " Let us now praise editors ". While the public pat-on-the-back for an often-overlooked profession is appreciated, there are a few more important points covered...

In the August issue of TechNet Magazine , Wes Miller takes a look at Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and demonstrates how this useful piece of technology enables you to access a home PC or office server remotely, and even to control a Media Center Extender...

Microsoft System Center is a suite of products designed to make day-to-day management of your IT infrastructure both easier and more cost-effective. In the August issue of TechNet Magazine , we introduce a few components of the System Center suite, starting...

Following on my previous posts about taking screen shots , here's an overview of some tools you can use to capture screens. PrintScreen The oldest and simplest way to capture a screen shot is to use the PrintScreen feature built into Windows going back...

I really shouldn't discuss this publicly, because one hates to set unrealistic expectations, but at the same time, I'd really like your input. If you've ever seen the Times Reader application available from the New York Times (discussed here , here...

The August 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/08/ . This month, our experts tackle a number of exciting new solutions available in the System Center family of management products. We begin with...

A few months back, our managing editor, Etya Novik, discussed the almost-ridiculous use of acronyms , particularly in our industry. She mentioned that here at TechNet Magazine , our editors maintain a spreadsheet of every technology-related acronym we...

All of us here at TechNet Magazine headquarters are immensely proud of the content we publish every month. Every article comes from a subject matter expert who really knows what they're talking about, and each one of those authors has a big fan club in...

The July 2007 RTW of TechNet Magazine includes, as always, the world-famous From The Editor column. I've been working with some social and business networking sites lately, and I've shared my experiences - plus a quick look at what's in the mag this month...

The complete July issue of TechNet Magazine is now online ( www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/07/ ). This issue covers a variety of topics, from Exchange disaster recovery to securing the desktop against malicious ActiveX controls. There is also...

Just about a year ago, in our August 2006 issue , Michael Lee from the Exchange product group wrote a stellar article about disaster recovery in Exchange 2003 . This month, in a preview of our July 2007 issue, Lee Benjamin picks up the baton with his...

Please, a round of applause now for the interactive editor's note! Here's the June 2007 version, where I discuss Microsoft Forefront. I'm throwing it open to discussion here, so blast away. - JT Have you noticed how security concerns have become...

I'm sure by now, most all of you are familiar with Mark Russinovich, a technical fellow in the platforms division at Microsoft. Whether you know Mark from his innovative work at Sysinternals and Winternals, his defining book Windows Internals (co-authored...

We're very proud of the fact that this week at TechEd, many authors from TechNet Magazine were featured speakers. Among our favorites is Byron Hynes, whom you may remember from his great article in our June 2007 issue entitled Keys to Protecting Data...

We're very excited that so many of the best sessions from TechEd this year are showing up over at Virtual TechEd . I'm sure you all know Don Jones from his Windows PowerShell column in TechNet Magazine . Well, Don has had one of the most popular sessions...

Steve and I had some great questions from our talk at TechEd the other day. Steve was kind enough to post the answers over on the MSDN Magazine blog . All together now - "Thanks, Steve!" If you have any other questions, just send them my way by...

Steve and I just finished our TechEd session about how to become an author for MSDN Magazine or TechNet Magazine. For your convenience, our slides are posted here so that you can follow along at home. Thanks, - Josh