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October 2007
COVER STORY
New Security Log Illuminates Windows Events
Windows 2008 and Vista highlights are new ID numbers, a new look, and an XML format for events; a more granular audit policy; and enhancements to Event Viewer.
Randy Franklin Smith
Anatomy of a Botnet
B. K. Winstead
FEATURES
A Fast Yet Secure Way to Open MMCs Using Alternative Credentials
If you use high-privilege credentials to open Microsoft Management Consoles (MMCs), here's a clever way you can spend less time entering those credentials. All you need are some simple batch files.
Readers
Time-Saving Tips for Typing URLs in IE
Internet Explorer (IE) has provided URL shortcuts in the past. Microsoft continues that tradition in IE 7.0 with a new URL feature that can simplify your browsing experience.
Apostolos Fotakelis
Export AD Data into Access So Users Can Run Their Own AD Reports
With this reporting tool, users are happy because they can obtain custom AD reports and administrators are happy because they have more time to tend to other tasks.
Readers
PowerShell Scripting
PowerShell lets you write simple scripts to automate Group Policy administration tasks such as managing and archiving GPOs listed in an Excel spreadsheet.
Danny Kim
The Inevitability of IPv6, Part 1
Learn about some of the new features of IPv6, as well as some of the reasons you should care about it—even if you don't plan on implementing it in the near future.
John Howie
A Trip to the Store with Exchange 2007
In addition to moving Exchange to a 64-bit platform, Microsoft has improved the Exchange 2007 Information Store by adding features such as log shipping for resiliency and removing outdated features from previous versions.
Tony Redmond
Planning Your Vista Deployment with BDD
Before you spend a lot of time and money on a Vista upgrade, check out the free downloadable tools from Microsoft.
Rhonda Layfield
Steps for Preparing for Vista Deployment
Rhonda Layfield
Introducing the Business Data Catalog
Use MOSS 2007's BDC to discover and use data held in back-end Line Of Business (LOB) applications.
Kevin Laahs
Ask the Experts
Learn how to find all the files for which a user has access, learn what application virtualization is, find out how to open multiple pages at IE startup, and more.
Mark Russinovich, et al.
Finding all the Files for Which a User Has Access
John Savill
Learning about Application Virtualization
John Savill
Setting Multiple Start Pages for IE
John Savill
The Case of the Unexpected PsList Error
Mark Russinovich
COLUMNS
Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and PerformancePoint
With Software Plus Services, Microsoft ups the ante in its competition with Google and SaaS. The company still has to protect revenue from traditional software, but it also has a strength competitors can't match.
Karen Forster
What You Need to Know About Changes in Windows 2008 Since Beta 3
Microsoft has refreshed the Windows Server 2008 Beta with a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) build that includes even more new features and functionality while fixing almost a thousand bugs.
Paul Thurrott
What You Need to Know About Windows XP SP3
Since Microsoft shipped two service packs for XP (one of them a major OS upgrade) within the product's first few years on the market, it's somewhat surprising that, three years after SP2, we've yet to see an SP3 release.
Paul Thurrott
What You Need to Know About Microsoft Silverlight
With regard to Web rendering technologies, Microsoft hasn't been much of a presence, but the company hopes to change its standing with a new technology called Microsoft Silverlight, a platform for developing rich applications that run in the browser.
Paul Thurrott
Counting on For
Need a way to generate 501 user accounts? No? I bet you'll want to try it after reading this column.
Mark Minasi
Steps to Get Started with Groove 2007
Groove 2007 is one of the lesser-known features of Office 2007. Here are 10 tips to get you started with this useful collaboration tool.
Michael Otey
Letters@windowsitpro.com
Readers ask about a strange behavior of the Domain Users group, the reason behind a defrag enhancement utility, and more
Readers, et al.
PRODUCTS AND REVIEWS
New & Improved
Windows IT Pro takes a look at new and improved products.
Jeff James
NETIKUS.NET EventSentry 2.8
EventSentry 2.8 is an excellent event-log and system-health monitoring and consolidation tool that you should consider closely for your environment.
John Green
Paul's Picks
Paul takes a gander at the iPhone and Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 2.0.
Paul Thurrott
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
OCS 2007 merges call control and presence technologies into a single offering.
Tony Piltzecker
Meet Me on the Web
In today's global businesses, communication and collaboration is becoming more difficult just as travel and off-site meetings are falling victim to cost cutting. Web conferencing is the solution.
Gayle Rodcay
Avoid Disaster with UPS
An essential aspect of any disaster-recovery plan is the UPS. Need to know what to look for if you're in the market to buy one? Begin your search here.
Blake Eno
Readers Review Hot Products
Readers highlight favorite products: Sunbelt Software's CounterSpy Enterprise, Security Laboratories' Security Recon, and Alloy Software's Alloy Navigator 5.
Jeff James
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