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Wouldn’t it be great if you could see everything you need to know about a PC—its name, IP address, gateway, free disk space, and so on—in a single place. You can, with this free tool from Sysinternals.

Lance Whitney

TechNet Magazine August 2007

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How do you secure the desktop against malicious ActiveX controls without limiting application compatibility? We’ll take you on a tour of the ActiveX Installer Service (AxIS) in Windows Vista that addresses this issue with a new way to manage ActiveX controls.

Rob Campbell and Joel Yoker

TechNet Magazine July 2007

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With Windows Vista, changes to the OS kernel bring about advances in many areas, ranging from memory management to reliability to security. We kick off this series with a look at how the kernel delivers improvements in the areas of processes, threads, and I/O.

Mark Russinovich

TechNet Magazine February 2007

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The introduction of Hyper-V makes virtualization an even more compelling solution for IT environments. Get an overview of today’s virtualization market and see how Hyper-V improves the manageability, reliability, and security of virtualization

Rajiv Arunkundram

TechNet Magazine October 2008

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Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) allows you to deliver virtualized desktops to client systems throughout your organization. This simplifies system management and liberates employees from their desktops. Take a close look at how App-V works and discover how you can deploy it in your organization.

Anthony Kinney

TechNet Magazine October 2008

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It's been about 8 years since "The 10 Immutable Laws of Security" were first published, and a lot has changed since then. In the last few installments of our Security Watch column, Jesper Johansson has been analyzing the immutable laws to see if they still hold true after all this time. 

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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the Microsoft implementation of Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM)—a technology that lets you access information about the objects in your enterprise environment that have to be managed, such as systems, applications, networks, devices, and other managed components. Not surprisingly, the information is accessible via script ...

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The TechNet Online team has just posted two new series of webcasts, podcasts, and virtual labs about SQL Server 2008 & Exchange Server 2007. These are not only useful - but entirely free - resources. Take a look!

 

SQL Server 2008: Access Your Data Any Place, Any Time

See how the business intelligence (BI) technologies in Microsoft SQL Server 2008, like enhanced support for data mining tasks, can help the people in your organization make decisions ...

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In this month’s TechNet Magazine, you’ll find the second of a series of Field Notes columns written by Romi Mahajan, Chief Marketing Officer of Ascentium Corporation. As an early innovator in the field of electronic ...

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The complexity of systems today makes troubleshooting more difficult than ever. It’s harder to keep track of what has changed, when, and how that relates to everything else. If something goes wrong, chances are good that users will have a hard time figuring out what has changed on their computers, whether due to updates, new software, ...

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