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Hey, Scripting Guy! Scripting for identity
In the August 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, the Scripting Guys are on sentry duty... No, wait....
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/22/2007
Preview: 11 Essential Tools for Managing Active Directory
Coming up in next month's issue of TechNet Magazine, Laura Hunter - a Windows Server MVP - joins us...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/21/2007
Utility Spotlight: BGInfo
Sometimes the simplest things can make a world of difference. In the August 2007 issue of TechNet...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/20/2007
System Center Essentials 2007
The third part of our Microsoft System Center focus in the August issue of TechNet Magazine takes a...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/17/2007
The Cable Guy: IPv6 Autoconfiguration in Windows Vista
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a new suite of Internet protocols designed to improve on (and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/15/2007
Windows PowerShell: The Power of Filtering
In the August issue of TechNet Magazine, Don Jones shows you how Windows PowerShell can help you...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/13/2007
System Center Operations Manager 2007
Our coverage of Microsoft System Center in the August issue of TechNet Magazine continues with...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/11/2007
Security Watch: PKI Enhancements in Windows
Public key infrastructure (PKI) represents one of the foundation elements of security in Windows....
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/09/2007
What do editors do, and why is it important?
There's a very interesting commentary piece by Gary Kamiya now available on Salon.com entitled "Let...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/07/2007
The Desktop Files: Remote Desktop Protocol
In the August issue of TechNet Magazine, Wes Miller takes a look at Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/07/2007
System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Microsoft System Center is a suite of products designed to make day-to-day management of your IT...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/06/2007
Thoughts on screen shots: Useful tools
Following on my previous posts about taking screen shots, here's an overview of some tools you can...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/03/2007
Magazine Reader application
I really shouldn't discuss this publicly, because one hates to set unrealistic expectations, but at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/02/2007
The August 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now online
The August 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/26/2007
Sharing our Acronym List
A few months back, our managing editor, Etya Novik, discussed the almost-ridiculous use of acronyms,...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/20/2007
Congratulations to the Microsoft Scripting Guys
All of us here at TechNet Magazine headquarters are immensely proud of the content we publish every...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/12/2007
Six Degrees
The July 2007 RTW of TechNet Magazine includes, as always, the world-famous From The Editor column....
Author: JTrupin Date: 06/29/2007
The July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is available online
The complete July issue of TechNet Magazine is now online (www.technetmagazine.com/issues/2007/07/)....
Author: Matt Graven Date: 06/29/2007
Exchange Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Just about a year ago, in our August 2006 issue, Michael Lee from the Exchange product group wrote a...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/21/2007
June 2007 Editor's Note: Microsoft Forefront
Please, a round of applause now for the interactive editor's note! Here's the June 2007 version,...
Author: JTrupin Date: 06/18/2007
Mark Russinovich at TechEd
I'm sure by now, most all of you are familiar with Mark Russinovich, a technical fellow in the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/08/2007
Byron Hynes on BitLocker
We're very proud of the fact that this week at TechEd, many authors from TechNet Magazine were...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/08/2007
Don Jones @ TechEd
We're very excited that so many of the best sessions from TechEd this year are showing up over at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/07/2007
Follow-up Q&A
Steve and I had some great questions from our talk at TechEd the other day. Steve was kind enough to...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/07/2007
Slides for TechEd Session
Steve and I just finished our TechEd session about how to become an author for MSDN Magazine or...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/05/2007
Call me Ishmael
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/04/2007
On our way to TechEd 2007
As Steve Toub mentions over on the MSDN Magazine Blog, a number of us from the TechNet Magazine and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/03/2007
The many faces of TechEd
Tech·Ed 2007 is almost upon us, and we're very busy here at TechNet Magazine Headquarters getting...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/30/2007
Utility Spotlight: Script Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista
We have a very exciting Utility Spotlight this month! One of our very talented contributing editors,...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/23/2007
The June 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now online
The June 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/23/2007
Inside Windows Vista User Account Control
You may recall that the final part of Mark Russinovich's three-part series, Inside the Windows Vista...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/17/2007
A day in the life...
My good friend Steve, the technical editor of MSDN Magazine, just published a great post about how...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/15/2007
Revisiting Windows Deployment Services
One of the most frequent topics of reader e-mail we receive here at TechNet Magazine is Windows PE...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/11/2007
Security to go
Torn from the pages of the May 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, here's the interactive editor's note!...
Author: JTrupin Date: 05/09/2007
Field Trip: TechNet Magazine on Press
I often say that I have one of the most unusual and "old school" jobs at Microsoft—not quite sure if...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/02/2007
Wednesday Humor
A good friend of mine sent this video my way, and it rang so true (and was so amusing) that I had to...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/02/2007
Exchange Questions Answered
We feel very lucky to have added a number of very talented columnists to our lineup this year, and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/01/2007
The May 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now online
The May 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/30/2007
Download Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 3
Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 3 is now available as a free download from microsoft.com/getbeta3....
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/26/2007
The Dawn of a New Computing Era
You'd be surprised at how often those words (or some very similar variation) show up in the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/25/2007
We may be wrong...
With the April 2007 issue of TNMag, I decided that the magazine (in particular the editor's note)...
Author: JTrupin Date: 04/18/2007
Capturing a screen shot in Windows
It's surprising the number of questions I get about something as seemingly simple as screen...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/17/2007
FWIW, A Rant on Acronyms
My work life is filled with acronyms, mostly TLAs (three-letter acronyms) and what I’ll call MLAs...
Author: TNMagStaff Date: 04/11/2007
Want Stephen's Job?
This posting is very bittersweet for the staff here at TechNet Magazine. Our good friend Stephen...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/04/2007
Will you be joining us at TechEd 2007?
As I write this, I'm on a cross-country flight from beautiful Redmond, WA back to TechNet Magazine...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/30/2007
The April 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online
The April 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/28/2007
Inside the Windows Vista Kernel with Mark Russinovich: Part 3
In the final part of his three part series, Mark Russinovich wraps up his look at changes made in...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/21/2007
Article pagination... good or bad?
Stephen Toub started this discussion over on the MSDN Magazine Blog, and I wanted to throw it out to...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/16/2007
The March 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online
The March 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/14/2007