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April 2008
COVER STORY
Conquer 2 New DNS Exploits
You understand the importance of securing your external name servers, but what about your DNS clients? Two new client-focused vulnerabilities demand your attention.
Cricket Liu
Tried-and-True DNS Wisdom
Caroline Marwitz
FEATURES
Properly Compiling and Storing a Product Key List Is Well Worth the Effort
Here are some basic, common-sense tricks you can use to help keep your Microsoft product key list usable and safe.
Alex K. Angelopoulos
Your Non-Vista Option
Not looking forward to migrating to Vista? It's not your only option.
Readers
An Alternative to Windows Vista
Readers
Another Way to Quickly Copy File Paths
This file-path copying technique has been around since Windows NT, so you can use it with many Windows OSs.
Readers
Open a Command Prompt Window While Installing Windows
You might think that performing such tasks as checking available disk space or searching for a file while Windows is installing is impossible, but that's not the case.
Apostolos Fotakelis
PowerShell 101, Lesson 3
PowerShell's comparison, logical, and arithmetic operators combined with its support for wildcards and regular expressions help put the "Pow" in PowerShell.
Robert Sheldon
How to Find Out a Cmdlet's Properties
Robert Sheldon
10 Steps for Physical to Virtual OS Migration
Save time and server space by doing a physical to virtual (P2V) OS migration with Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) and Mobile Automated Services (ADS). Mobile P2V gives you the flexibility to handle migrations anywhere in the organization.
Robert Larson
Why VSMT 1.1 Doesn’t Support Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
Robert Larson
Adding Windows Server 2003 SP2 Support to the VSMT Patch Directory
Robert Larson
Windows Server 2008 Installation—It’s a Snap!
Windows Server 2008 installation is a very different beast than what you’ve experienced in the past. Follow these few steps to begin using the new OS today.
John Savill
What You Need to Know About In-Place Upgrades
John Savill
6 New Security Features in IIS 7.0
You can sandbox applications, delegate configuration decisions, control access to all content types, and more with IIS 7.0 security features.
Derek Hatchard
Customize Search Features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Set targeted search scopes, and provide custom search forms and results pages with MOSS 2007's Advanced Search Web part and the Search Center site template.
Anup Kafle
Ask the Experts
Learn about automatic site coverage and how to disable it, find out how to configure how often Group Policy security settings are updated, follow along as Mark Russinovich troubleshoots a frozen sidebar gadget, and more.
Various Authors
Configuring How Often to Update Group Policy Security Settings
John Savill
Running a Mixed Environment of Exchange 2003 SP1 and Exchange 2003 SP2 Servers
Nathan Winters
Learning About Automatic Site Coverage
John Savill
Updating Your Old Hardware
Various Authors
COLUMNS
Microsoft Virtualization: A Special IT Pro Perspective Report
As April begins, Microsoft has big news about Xbox as a server and amazing virtualizationa nd management options.
Karen Forster
The Next Wave of Microsoft Virtualization
Karen Forster
What You Need to Know About WGA Changes in Windows Vista SP1
Learn why changes to Windows Genuine Advantage in Vista SP1 might send you scurrying to update.
Paul Thurrott
What You Need to Know About Windows Home Server
Learn why Windows Home Server is impressive and what effect it could have on small businesses.
Paul Thurrott
Defrag from Windows Vista’s Command Line
Every new Windows version seems to come with a new defrag tool, and Vista is no exception. But its GUI-based defragmenter leaves a lot to be desired. Here’s how you can use the OS’s Defrag command-line tool to do more.
Mark Minasi
Free Virtualization Products
Keep up with the fast-growing virtualization market by building your virtual machines (VMs) and managing your environment with these free products.
Michael Otey
Letters@windowsitpro.com
Readers benefit from Mark Minasi’s Cipher tip, respond to Robert Sheldon’s PowerShell 101 series, offer a Vista UAC workaround, and complain about too much Server 2008 and Vista coverage.
Various Authors
PRODUCTS AND REVIEWS
New & Improved
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Microsoft Robert 2008
Jeff James
Systems Management: Automate and Simplify Windows Server 2008
Editors
Lenovo ThinkPad X61
The ThinkPad X61 isn't the smallest or lightest ultraportable avilable, and its general usability is somewhat lackin. But it boosts dual-core power and extreme portability.
Jason Bovberg
SteelEye Technology LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Windows
SteelEye’s clustering and disaster recovery solution, LifeKeeper Protection Suite for Windows, offers admirable support for both replicated and shared storage, easy configuration for both scenarios, and support for more complex failover scenarios.
John Green
SAM Minds Your IT Assets
As software-licensing audits become more common, businesses are finding that software asset management (SAM) solutions can help ensure they're in compliance with licensing agreements as well as keep an eye on employees' software and hardware usage.
Todd Erickson
Guidelines for Evaluating SAM Solutions
Todd Erickson
SAM Vendors and Resources
Todd Erickson
Enterprise Patch Management Software
Evaluate 11 patch management products to decide which solution is right for your environment.
Todd Erickson
Readers Review Hot Products
Reader highlight their favorite products from Appassure, 3CX, and Google.
Jeff James
Internet Search
Jeff James
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