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InteQ's InfraDesk 5.0
Learn how InteQ's InfraDesk 5.0 helps improve service desk strategy through increased service delivery and operations. New Product Showcase
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Numara Software's Numara FootPrints 9
Learn how Numara Footprints 9 helps improves management of the service desk and extends business process automation throughout the organization. New Product Showcase
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Kaseya 2008
Learn how Kaseya 2008 enables managed service providers (MSPS) and IT professionals to remotely monitor, manage and maintain a distributed IT infrastructure. New Product Showcase
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KnowledgeLake Imaging Server 2008
Learn how Imaging Server 2008 helps transform SharePoint into a production imaging system capable of meeting high-volume needs. New Product Showcase
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Interse A/S's iBox 5.0
Learn how iBox 5.0 helps admins find documents in Microsoft's File Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. New Product Showcase
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Idera's Pointbackup
Learn how Idera's Pointbackup works to help administrators ensure the safety and integrity of their SharePoint content. New Product Showcase
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KnowledgeLake Capture 2008
Learn about KnowledgeLake Capture, a high-volume, production-level capture system that cuts the cost of storing and distributing paper documents in SharePoint Server. New Product Showcase
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AvePoint's DocAve Software Platform
Learn how admins can use DocAve Software Platform to perform backup and recovery, disaster recovery, administration, replication, archiving, compliance and migration tasks. New Product Showcase
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MAPILab Statistics for SharePoint
Learn how MAPILab Statistics for SharePoint helps administrators analyze how the collaboration tool is used. New Product Showcase
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Idera's Point admin toolset
Learn how Idera's Point admin toolset lessens the administrative overhead and knowledge needed to manage Microsoft SharePoint New Product Showcase
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Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 goes gold
Policy-based management is one feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 expected to appeal to IT managers and database administrators. Article | 06 Aug 2008
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Symantec shapes its virtualization strategy
Symantec hopes to have a desktop virtualization suite by the end of the year that promises IT control over virtual and physical realms. Article | 05 Aug 2008
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Microsoft vs. VMware: What's the next move?
With their hypervisors finally slugging it out in the marketplace, Microsoft and VMware will now advance their battle for virtual world dominance. Article | 25 Jul 2008
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Microsoft adds standalone version of Virtual Machine Manager to lineup
The next release of Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager adds support for the Hyper-V hypervisor as well as VMware's ESX. Article | 09 Jul 2008
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VMware responds to Microsoft virtualization pressure with shake-up
Microsoft's Hyper-V is here and VMware will face a bruising fight to keep its dominant position in the virtualization market. The EMC division's board of directors reacted by dumping the company's longtime chief. Article | 08 Jul 2008
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Microsoft enters the server virtualization game with hypervisor
The server role version of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor will be released more than a month earlier than first projected. Article | 25 Jun 2008
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IT shops have full dance card without Vista, thank you
There is no shortage of IT projects in the enterprise, according to IT managers at TechEd this year. Vista and Windows Server 2008 rollouts are not among them. Article | 10 Jun 2008
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VMware updates app virtualization software
VMware offers rebranded Thinstall technology as ThinApps with new feature that lets virtual apps interact. Article | 10 Jun 2008
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Citrix appliance guards virtual desktops
IT administrators concerned about virtual desktop security can now set user access policies for XenDesktop using a security appliance. Article | 09 Jun 2008
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IT shops will likely mix and match virtualization tools
Most companies don't have one IT manager in charge of buying all of the virtualization software, which could lead to lots of management inefficiencies. Article | 28 May 2008
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Terminal Services expands user support in Windows Server 2008
Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 has improved support for knowledge workers needing support for multiple desktops, telecommuters and people working from remote offices. Tip
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TS Web Access simplifies application process in Windows Server 2008
With TS Web Access, the process of adding and removing applications can be as easy as clicking a checkbox. Tip
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Active Directory tools ease import/export of data
Expert Gary Olsen explains how to use LDIFDE import and CSVDE export features to better manage your Active Directory architecture. Tip
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Mastering the LDAP search filter, Part 2
LDIFDE is a powerful command line tool that with a little practice, can easily extract specific information about AD objects. Expert Gary Olsen explains how to limit your search by way of an object class LDAP filter. Tip
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Mastering the LDAP search filter
Expert Gary Olsen breaks down the principles of the LDAP search filter, making it easy for an admin to formulate whatever search he or she wants in Active Directory. Tip
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Group Policy: Applying a 'master' set of policies in a non-AD environment
In this series, expert Jeremy Moskowitz helps readers with such issues as using Group Policy to force all PC homepages to a specific Web site and using a registry key to monitor security template changes. Tip
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The effects of GPO version numbers on Group Policy replication
The relationship of the version numbers for the Group Policy Template and Group Policy Console of each GPO are important for proper Group Policy replication. Expert Derek Melber discusses this relationship and explains why the numbers don't always ad... Tip
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Terminal Services: Issues dealing with Remote Desktop
In this series, Terminal Services expert Christa Anderson helps readers with issues involving Remote Desktop, using a Windows 2000 terminal server in a Windows Server 2003 domain, and more. Tip
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Active Directory: Monitoring AD performance
In this series, Active Directory expert Laura E. Hunter gives tips on monitoring AD usage and totaling users in a specified group. She also works out issues when trying to add a child domain in a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. Tip
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Active Directory: Trouble starting AD Users and Computers
In this series, Expert Laura E. Hunter helps readers with such Active Directory issues as authorizing the DHCP, resetting the AD Restore Mode password and starting AD Users and Computers. Tip
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What is a JAD session?
What is a JAD session? This term is referred to often in job postings and seems like some kind of brainstorm you carry out with a client to define IT specification/requirements. What does it stand for? And what does it mean? Ask the Expert
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How can I change the IP address of a DC running Windows Server 2003 Active Directory?
Active Directory expert Laura E. Hunter offers some advice for changing the IP addresses of domain controllers. Ask the Expert
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What should I know about subnets when removing sites from an AD environment?
Active Directory expert Laura E. Hunter tells a reader what to keep in mind when deleting subnets associated with sites being removed in an environment. Ask the Expert
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Can I modify the CN attribute of the users of an organization unit?
Active Directory expert Laura E. Hunter explains to a reader what must be done to change the default display specifiers for new users in Active Directory. Ask the Expert
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How can I get certain PCs to run faster on network shared drives?
Active Directory expert Laura E. Hunter offers a tip for shortening client wait times. Ask the Expert
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How are VMware certifications valued right now?
Career expert Ed Tittel explains how the value of VMware certs has changed since 2005. Ask the Expert
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By taking a PRINCE2 course, what are my chances in the job market?
Career expert Ed Tittel offers his thoughts on the value PRINCE2 has in today's IT job industry. Ask the Expert
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When pursuing an IT career, is certification the best place to begin?
Career expert Ed Tittel provides advice for the best way to get started when entering the IT job market. Ask the Expert
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I'd like to enter the information security management field. What cert programs should I focus on?
Career expert Ed Tittel advises a reader who is interested in becoming an information security consultant. Ask the Expert
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Why do remote users find that all printers have disappeared from their sessions?
Expert Christa Anderson offers advice for dealing with a crashing spooler service. Ask the Expert
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windows, icons, mouse, and pull-down menus (WIMP)
WIMP is an acronym describing the desktop user interface familiar to Windows and Mac computer users, significant features of which are windows, icons, a mouse, and pull-down menus. Definition
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binder
In file management, a binder is a software utility that combines two or more files into a single file. Definition
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import
In a personal computer application, to import is to open a file that is in a format different from the format the application creates on its own. Definition
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Windows Product Activation (WPA)
Windows Product Activation (WPA) is the mandatory product registration system included in Microsoft's Windows XP, Office XP, and recent Office products (such as Word 2002 or Excel 2002) as a means of enforcing compliance with the company's End User L... Definition
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gold code
In software development, gold code is the final, ready-to-manufacture (that is, replicate onto media) version of the software. Definition
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Terminal Server product or Microsoft Windows Terminal Server (WTS)
The Microsoft Windows Terminal Server (WTS) is a server program running on its Windows NT 4.0 (or higher) operating system that provides the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Windows desktop to user terminals that don't have this capability thems... Definition
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StarOffice
StarOffice is a free productivity application suite from Sun Microsystems that includes a word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), database (Base), presentation maker (Impress), illustrator (Draw), schedule managment (Schedule), e-mail (Mail) and... Definition
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Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
See our comparison table for SCSI-1, SCSI-2, Fast SCSI-2, Wide SCSI-2, Fast Wide SCSI-2, Ultra SCSI-3 8-bit, Ultra SCSI-3 16-bit, Ultra-2 SCSI, Wide Ultra-2 SCSI, and Ultra160/m. Definition
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computer
A computer is a device that accepts information (in the form of digitalized data) and manipulates it for some result based on a program or sequence of instructions on how the data is to be processed. Definition
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TweakUI
TweakUI is a software utility that lets Windows 9x, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 users modify the desktop user interface and other system characteristics to their liking. Definition
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Windows Week in Review transcript: February 1, 2008
Microsoft focuses on the launch of Windows Server 2008 and fends off rumors that Windows 7 is coming sooner rather than later. Podcast transcript
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Windows Week in Review: January 10th, 2008
Worms and rootkits plague the present, Windows Server 2008 marks the future, and Bill Gates gets ready to become the past. Podcast transcript
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Windows Weekly Newscast: A new IE patch and more releases from Microsoft
SearchWinIT.com's Brendan Cournoyer recaps the most important Windows stories of the past week in the latest edition of our Windows Weekly Newscast. This week, listen to the latest on Microsoft's critical patch release for Internet Explorer, the new ... Podcast
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Windows Weekly Newscast: Email packages and IE flaws
SearchWinIT.com's Brendan Cournoyer recaps the most important Windows stories of the past week in the first edition of our Windows Weekly Newscast. This week, listen to how Dell's partnership with Symantec could pay dividends in the email management ... Podcast
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InteQ's InfraDesk 5.0
Learn how InteQ's InfraDesk 5.0 helps improve service desk strategy through increased service delivery and operations. New Product Showcase
-
Numara Software's Numara FootPrints 9
Learn how Numara Footprints 9 helps improves management of the service desk and extends business process automation throughout the organization. New Product Showcase
-
Kaseya 2008
Learn how Kaseya 2008 enables managed service providers (MSPS) and IT professionals to remotely monitor, manage and maintain a distributed IT infrastructure. New Product Showcase
-
KnowledgeLake Imaging Server 2008
Learn how Imaging Server 2008 helps transform SharePoint into a production imaging system capable of meeting high-volume needs. New Product Showcase
-
Interse A/S's iBox 5.0
Learn how iBox 5.0 helps admins find documents in Microsoft's File Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. New Product Showcase
-
Idera's Pointbackup
Learn how Idera's Pointbackup works to help administrators ensure the safety and integrity of their SharePoint content. New Product Showcase
-
KnowledgeLake Capture 2008
Learn about KnowledgeLake Capture, a high-volume, production-level capture system that cuts the cost of storing and distributing paper documents in SharePoint Server. New Product Showcase
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AvePoint's DocAve Software Platform
Learn how admins can use DocAve Software Platform to perform backup and recovery, disaster recovery, administration, replication, archiving, compliance and migration tasks. New Product Showcase
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MAPILab Statistics for SharePoint
Learn how MAPILab Statistics for SharePoint helps administrators analyze how the collaboration tool is used. New Product Showcase
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Idera's Point admin toolset
Learn how Idera's Point admin toolset lessens the administrative overhead and knowledge needed to manage Microsoft SharePoint New Product Showcase
- See more All on WinIT Resources