Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me in New York, I thought I would set sail for the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Upon arrival, along with my expedition...

As Steve Toub mentions over on the MSDN Magazine Blog , a number of us from the TechNet Magazine and MSDN Magazine staff will be on-hand at TechEd 2007 this week. We'll have a lot of exciting activity going on at our booth (#1301) including presentations...

Tech·Ed 2007 is almost upon us, and we're very busy here at TechNet Magazine Headquarters getting ready for all of the parties! (And the learning and the sessions and the networking and stuff too, but mainly the parties.) And it turns out we're not...

We have a very exciting Utility Spotlight this month! One of our very talented contributing editors, Michael Murgolo, has created a powerful (and free!) set of Script Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista. These tools allow for command line and UI-based...

The June 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/06/ . As I mentioned last week, Microsoft Technical Fellow and TechNet Magazine contributing editor Mark Russinovich is back this month with an in-depth...

If you are submitting an article to either TechNet Magazine or MSDN Magazine , here is a short checklist of items you should make sure are done before sending your final manuscript. Making sure these details are taken care of saves everyone extra work...

You may recall that the final part of Mark Russinovich's three-part series, Inside the Windows Vista Kernel , Mark discussed kernel changes in Windows Vista related to reliability, recovery, and security. However, one notable security feature - User Account...

My good friend Steve, the technical editor of MSDN Magazine , just published a great post about how our magazines get put together. As you might imagine, it's a pretty complicated process that starts long before the magazine lands in your mailbox each...

One of the most frequent topics of reader e-mail we receive here at TechNet Magazine is Windows PE and Windows Deployment. Fortunately, we have our desktop columnist and contributing editor Wes Miller with us every month to provide you with the best hands...

Torn from the pages of the May 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine , here's the interactive editor's note! I asked the question, "What is the most unusual security situation you've encountered at your company?" This is open for discussion here, so please enlighten...

I often say that I have one of the most unusual and "old school" jobs at Microsoft—not quite sure if I do, but I like to think so. I'm the art and production director for TechNet Magazine (and MSDN Magazine ), and in addition to many other cool things...

A good friend of mine sent this video my way, and it rang so true (and was so amusing) that I had to share it with all of you. (Thanks, Tim!) A depiction of the "first ever IT guy": Hope you enjoy it. I know I did! - Josh

We feel very lucky to have added a number of very talented columnists to our lineup this year, and among the most exciting to me is the arrival of KC Lemson, Nino Bilic, and friends with Exchange Queue & A . You may know KC from her very popular blog...

The May 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/05/ . With the meteoric rise in mobile devices within an enterprise (how many of us don't have some sort of connected PDA?), security of the sensitive...

Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 3 is now available as a free download from microsoft.com/getbeta3 . "Longhorn" is easily the most exciting version of Windows Server yet, with a huge list of new features including: *Windows PowerShell - Powerful scripting...

You'd be surprised at how often those words (or some very similar variation) show up in the introduction of a first-draft article. If you read our collection of first drafts, you'd find that everything from MS-DOS to the Regmon utility has ushered in...

With the April 2007 issue of TNMag, I decided that the magazine (in particular the editor's note) should be more interactive. This month, I discussed the TechNet Magazine corrections policy and why we think it works well. This is open for discussion here;...

It's surprising the number of questions I get about something as seemingly simple as screen captures. But really, it's not the most intuitive thing to do in Windows. While the commands and tools haven't changed in years -- going back at least to Windows...

My work life is filled with acronyms, mostly TLAs (three-letter acronyms) and what I’ll call MLAs (multiple letter acronyms). Well, technically they’re abbreviations, but let’s not get off track already. I suspect that you may suffer the same fate. Acronym...

This posting is very bittersweet for the staff here at TechNet Magazine . Our good friend Stephen Toub, the technical & acquisitions editor over at our sister publication, MSDN Magazine , is returning to his natural place among the developer community...

As I write this, I'm on a cross-country flight from beautiful Redmond, WA back to TechNet Magazine Headquarters in New York City (2 notes here - 1. Windows Live Writer rules. A plane ride is a great time to blog. 2. The on-board entertainment system on...

The April 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/04/ . This month, TechNet Magazine contributing editor and Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich wraps up his three-part series entitled Inside...

In the final part of his three part series, Mark Russinovich wraps up his look at changes made in the Windows Vista Kernel by exploring advancements in reliability, recovery, and security. The latest installment can be found on our Web site at http:/...

Stephen Toub started this discussion over on the MSDN Magazine Blog, and I wanted to throw it out to our readers as well. To quote Stephen: Some of the articles in the magazine are relatively long, and on the Web site, each article shows up as an individual...

The March 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/03/ . This month, TechNet Magazine contributing editor and Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich continues his three-part series entitled Inside...