December 2009Microsoft’s latest Exchange features enable new levels of reliability, better performance, simplified administration, improved protection of communications and greater business mobility for users. Get the lowdown on what’s so great in …
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Windows Confidential: Junctions
December 2009Microsoft created junctions to provide compatibility with applications that hard-coded paths to various well-known file-system locations, but junctions don’t work as you might expect.
Windows PowerShell: The Case for Regular Expressions
December 2009Working with regular expressions can provide great value, but be like solving a puzzle. Read this article for an example of a real-life, practical application of regular expressions and discover a trick for using them.
Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals
December 2009Greg Steen discusses how to wipe disks clean with Eraser, streamline backups with SQL Backup Pro and map out projects and ideas with MindManager.
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7: BranchCache and DirectAccess: Improving the Branch Office Experience
December 2009Arguably the crown jewels of the Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 releases, get the inside skinny on the benefits and drawbacks of BranchCache and DirectAccess. Also included: a guide to implementing these new features.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Ensuring High Availability in Exchange 2010
December 2009Acclaimed author William Stanek takes you on a whirlwind tour of the high-availability features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. You’ll find out how to make the mailboxes you control and the data they contain safer and more flexible be…
Geek of all Trades: A Case for a Layered Approach to Deploying Windows Desktops
December 2009A monolithic approach to deployment just isn’t practical anymore. What’s needed is a layered approach that lets you easily deploy your Windows desktops, one with a single Windows image as its core. By Greg Shields.
Utility Spotlight: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1
December 2009Keeping track of all the security settings and updates on the PCs in your organization can be a full time job, but the free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer helps you evaluate your security state to make sure your systems are properly …
Upgrading Active Directory Domains to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 AD DS Domains
This guide explains the process for upgrading Active Directory domains to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, how to upgrade the operating system of domain controllers, and how to add domain controllers that run Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to an existing domain.
November 2009 CTP
Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 code name “R2” – November 2009 CTP is a pre-release build of the next version of Commerce Server. Please note that this pre-release build is not feature complete.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Installation Guide
This document provides information about and instructions for installing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.
Microsoft Volume Licensing Reference Guide
A comprehensive review of the Microsoft Volume Licensing programs, including Microsoft product licensing models and Microsoft Software Assurance.
Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool
Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain) is a Web interface to Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server.
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Language Pack
The Microsoft Office Language Interface Pack 2010 Beta – provides a user interface for many Microsoft Office 2010 Beta programs.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Upgrade Guide
Provides information about and instructions for upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.
MSXML 6.0 Service Pack 2 (KB973686)
Install this update to prevent applications from sending too many HTTP requests while a well-known Document Type Definition (DTD) is included.
Certificate Revocation Checking in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
This document provides details to system administrators how to optimize configuration of revocation checking features in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to provide more timely revocation information to clients.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Server and Database Administration Guide
This guide provides information about administering Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Visual Studio® Team System 2008 VSTS VPC Image (Trial)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is the next-generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web.
Windows Imaging Component
The Windows Imaging Component (WIC) provides WIC-enabled applications to display and edit any image format for which a WIC-compliant CODEC is installed, and also to read and write metadata in image files.