 |
Contents |
 |
|
| |
August 2005
COVER STORY
When Good Scripts Go Bad
When you test the VBScript code you just wrote, your script screeches to a premature stop. Use these hints to help you figure out what went wrong.
Karen Bemowski
Scripts Save Small Company Some Considerable Cash
Bill Stewart
Notable Problems with WMI and ADSI
Karen Bemowski
FEATURES
Cisco's Simple Route to a Secure Lab Environment
If you're in tune with the Cisco IOS command line, you can use VLANs and ACLs to create a separate lab environment with existing equipment.
Adam Carheden
Trunking
Adam Carheden
Hardening IIS 6.0
Follow Microsoft guidelines to establish a secure Web server on a Windows 2003 and IIS 6.0 platform.
Roger A. Grimes
SQL Server 101: Management Fundamentals
You're a Windows administrator, not a DBA—so how do you manage that SQL Server machine on your company's Windows network? Start making sense of SQL Server administration by learning what tools you'll need and how SQL Server security and backup work.
Michael Otey
Importing and Exporting Data
Michael Otey
More SQL Server Tools
Michael Otey
Ask the Experts
Our IT experts tell you how to track system time changes, explain the hierarchy of inherited permissions, discuss changing your AD topology after an Exchange 2003 consolidation and more.
Editors
Setting NTBackup to Not Use VSS
Bob Chronister
Consolidating mailboxes
Paul Robichaux
Understanding Inherited Permissions
Randy Franklin Smith
Does SUS Make You Want to Send an SOS?
Each time SUS downloads patches, there are always a few machines not properly patched. Here’s a handy script that checks machines to determine whether the specified patch was installed.
Readers
Prevent Multiple Logons With GPOs
If you need to prevent a user from logging on to multiple PCs at the same time, here’s a simple solution that uses logon and logoff scripts in GPOs.
Readers
COLUMNS
Monad Is Cool; DPM Is Done
Monad and Data Protection Manager are stars in beta and will incorporate customer feedback in their final versions.
Karen Forster
What You Need to Know About Longhorn Beta 1
Longhorn's security and data management features will make it a no-brainer for businesses of all sizes, and now's the time to start evaluating it.
Paul Thurrott
What You Need to Know About The Microsoft Certified Architect Program
Dianne Russell
Windows Error Reporting: Elementary, My Dear Watson
Do Microsoft's requests for information about crashes seem like a cruel joke? Discover how much of a difference your responses can make.
Karen Forster
Cut Down on Calls to the Help Desk
Streamlining Help desk operations can help reduce IT support costs, but don't stop there. Reducing the total volume of support calls results in impressive ROI.
Ben Smith
BGInfo
This free tool puts system information on the desktop for easy access.
Mark Russinovich
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
Tools for diagnosing cluster-setup and DNS problems and for burning CD-ROMs and DVDs join old standbys to make the new resource kit the best yet.
Michael Otey
Letters@windowsitpro.com
Windows IT Pro welcomes feedback about the magazine. Send comments to letters@windowsitpro.com
Readers
PRODUCTS AND REVIEWS
New & Improved
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: DYS Analytics' Email CONTROL!
Carolyn Mader
Beat Back Viruses
See how the top 5 email antivirus contestants from our 2004 Readers' Choice awards stack up.
Adam Carheden
Performance
Adam Carheden
Email Xray 2.6
This Outlook add-on offers a safe way to view messages and all their attachments—even those that Outlook blocks
John Green
Paul's Picks
Paul rates the Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions and previews Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0.
Paul Thurrott
Service Pack Manager 2000 7.1
Gravity Storm Software's Service Pack Manager (SPM) 2000 v7.1includes distributed patch management and a useful new Windows Firewall-management feature.
John D. Ruley
Softricity SoftGrid 3.1
End DLL Hell by using Softricity's SoftGrid to ease client application deployment and management.
Michael Otey
All-in-One Mobile Devices
Here are 19 combination devices that engorge your phone with the processing power of a PDA.
Jason Bovberg
Vendor Briefings
Editors share insights from their conversations with The Neverfail Group and V-Secure Technologies. Plus, learn about the winners of Best of Show at TechEd in June.
Editors
What's Hot
Readers highlight favorite products: vizioncore esxRanger, PatchLink PATCHLINK UPDATE, ScaleOut Software ScaleOut StateServer, UltraBac Software UltraBac 8.0, and SpamBayes.
Carolyn Mader
|
|
|
|
Register
