It occurs to me that a number of readers of TechNet Magazine may fall into the category of "novice developer" (not that there isn't plenty to learn and explore in the IT field - that's why we're all here! - but it never hurts to round out one's skills...

Those of you who subscribe to our primary TechNet Magazine RSS Feed may have noticed a technical glitch on our part in the last 24-hours. A series of incorrect links was inadvertently posted to our feed. This mistake has been corrected, and the broken...

In his continuing series exploring changes made in the Windows Vista Kernel, this month Mark Russinovich takes a look at advancements in the way Windows Vista manages memory, as well as major improvements to system startup, shutdown, and power management...

You've heard us mention from time-to-time that we're always looking for new authors and new content ideas for TechNet Magazine . When we say "new authors", we mean people just like you! That is, real IT Professionals using Microsoft technologies who know...

If you've been a reader of this blog for more than a few weeks (all 3 of you), you've probably noticed the fairly dramatic increase in our posting frequency. Hopefully it hasn't sent you running for the hills. It's not that we didn't care about you before...

On a more "playful" note (forgive the impending pun) this Friday afternoon, I wanted to call your attention to Matt Clapham's article in the February issue of TechNet Magazine , entitled Gaming in a Secure Environment . Security is certainly one of the...

Keith Combs put it best over on his blog - "Is DST the new Y2K?" I don't really know the answer, but if you're looking to learn more about the impact of the change to Daylight Savings Time (resulting from the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005) on your...

Some really interesting and compelling improvements have been made to the Group Policy infrastructure in Windows Vista, not the least of which is a very powerful new file format (the XML-based ADMX file). Jeremy Moskowitz began talking about this back...

A few months ago, TechNet Magazine was happy to welcome Don Jones - the lead Scripting Guru at SAPIEN Technologies - as a new monthly columnist. Each month, Don writes about one of the most exciting new technologies for the IT Pro - Windows PowerShell...

We're very happy to share with you that TechNet Magazine has been honored with four Society of Technical Commnunications awards ! We're particularly proud to have received an excellence award in the category of scholarly/professional journals, as well...

As a follow up to Amy's post about Font Smoothing earlier this week, Terrence Dorsey, another one of our developmental editors, has a great posting about how to take good screenshots for print publication. Check it out over on the MSDN Magazine Blog ...

The February 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online - in 11 languages! The Febuary 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/02/ . As I mentioned last week , we're proud to welcome...

Hey SQL Server users! For the past couple of years we’ve been using the TechNet Magazine SQL Q&A column as a forum to share the kinds of problems customers bring to support personnel and the solutions to those problems. As you’ll see if you...

If you’ve ever thought you might like to write for TechNet Magazine , but were afraid that your lack of writing experience might hinder you, please reconsider. We are always looking for new writers for our Field Notes column. Although most of the...

Amy Filbin, the Art & Production Manager for both MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine , has a great post over on the MSDN Magazine Blog about why Font Smoothing in screen captures is such a big deal (our authors hate it when we bug them about this...

You may remeber back in March when I posted about the Active Directory Component Jigsaw poster that was published with our March/April 2006 issue . Well, we continue to be amazed by the response we've gotten from readers around the world, who have told...

This month, TechNet Magazine is pleased to welcome new author and contributing editor Mark Russinovich ! Mark is a technical fellow in the Platforms and Services Division at Microsoft, as well as a noted author (if you haven't read Windows Internals...

Hi everyone. I'm Joshua Trupin, the executive editor of TechNet Magazine , and I'm sometimes known as "the Other Josh." Many of you already feel as if you know me from my picture that gazes out at you from the magazine each month next to the "From the...

As you may have noticed, in our last few issues we've added a few new regular columns to the TechNet Magazine lineup (including Windows PowerShell , The Desktop Files , The Cable Guy , and Exchange Queue and A ). Our goal with these columns, recognizing...

The January 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online - in 11 languages! The January 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/01/ . This month we take an in-depth look at new features...

You may have noticed that our sister publication, MSDN Magazine , has added 3 new languages to their Web site -- Italian , Traditional Chinese , and Korean -- in addition to the 7 that were already in place (English, Spanish, French, German, Russian,...

The December 2006 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online - in 7 languages! The December 2006 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2006/12/ . This month we focus on the upcoming release of Exchange...

Windows Vista is ready to go! The final bits have been released to manufacturing, and everything is on-schedule for a November 30th business launch (with general retail availability by January 30th). As you begin to plan your deployment of Windows Vista...

As a follow up to our announcement last week, I wanted to point out to everyone that our sister publication, MSDN Magazine (the premier journal for Microsoft developers) is now also available online in 7 languages ( English , French , Spanish , German...

The November 2006 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online - in 7 languages! http://www.technetmagazine.com The November 2006 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2006/11/ . This is a very...