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24 results found for IT Pro Hero, displaying items 1 - 20
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Lock Out Spambots
Want to keep spammers' hands off email addresses on your website? Take a cue from system specialist Lindy White, whose ingenious solution foils bots' address-reaping attempts while letting legitimate email through Coconino County's website.
Windows IT Pro
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Anne Grubb
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[September 11, 2008]
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Microsoft’s Take on SBS 2008 Pricing
Responding to concerns that SBS 2008 is priced too high, Microsoft says that customer feedback led to a higher price point for the software but a lower price for CALs, resulting in lover overall cost for most organizations.
Windows IT Pro
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Karen Forster
Rein in VMs Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager
System Center Virtual Machine Manager makes managing and migrating VMs almost painless for The Scooter Store's IT team.
Windows IT Pro
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Caroline Marwitz
Parallel Migrations: Exchange Server 2007 and Server Virtualization
Penton Media's IT team discusses how they moved production servers into virtualized environments and moved part of the company from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Server alongside a migration to Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.
Windows IT Pro
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Caroline Marwitz
A Smooth Windows Vista Migration Is Possible
If FUD keeps you Vista-resistant, take heart from the Windows Vista migration tale of Penton Media's Brent Mammen, Chris Ripkey, and Lucas Smith. Preparation, end-user training, and testing helped them avoid migration show-stoppers—and can help you, too.
Windows IT Pro
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Caroline Marwitz
Commonsense Virtualization
Although virtualization's consolidation and cost savings benefits might make you want to move all your applications into VMs, Hobsons' Patrick McFadin recommends a more gradual approach to implementing virtual technology.
Windows IT Pro
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Anne Grubb
Keys to Group Policy Success? Prepare and Test!
Want better results from your GPO-based software deployments? Then heed the advice of LAN administrator Mike Foster, who offers pointers on using Group Policy to do such things as deploying JRE and managing remote software installations.
Windows IT Pro
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Caroline Marwitz
Tried-and-True DNS Wisdom
An experienced Windows administrator offers his DNS insights and practical tips to help you make your DNS environment more secure.
Windows IT Pro
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Caroline Marwitz
A Sysadmin’s DNS Best Practices
Systems administrator Apostolos Fotakelis shares nine tried-and-true tips for running a secure DNS environment.
Windows IT Pro
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Apostolos Fotakelis
Early Adopter Shares Windows Server 2008 Insights
Arlin Sorensen, president and CEO for IT services firm Heartland Technology Solutions, talks about his company's experiences testing Windows Server 2008 and the benefits he expects to gain from the upgrade.
Windows IT Pro
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Anne Grubb
New Belgium Brews a Potent Unified Communications Combo
Brewery IT pros Jay Richardson and Travis Morrison tell how a UC setup based on Microsoft’s integrated email, presence, and conferencing and Cisco VoIP phones will support the craft brewer’s sales force growth.
Windows IT Pro
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Anne Grubb
Anatomy of a Botnet
When IT pro David Soussan looked more closely at the odd network traffic patterns behind a client's Internet-connection problem, he found a botnet at the core, then figured out how to disable the worm.
Windows IT Pro
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B. K. Winstead
User Logon Tracking Redux
Jeremy Schubert, a computer tech for a school district in Canada, explains why he used a solution based on Group Policy Objects rather than scripts to monitor users' computer activity.
Windows IT Pro
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Jeremy Schubert
Scripting Eases an SMS Migration
In the absence of commercial migration tools, Stefan Suesser developed a scripting toolkit to move his company from Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0 to SMS 2003.
Windows IT Pro
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B. K. Winstead
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[May 30, 2007]
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It’s 10:00 P.M.: Do You Know Who’s Logged On?
Titleserv systems engineer Michael Dragone devised a solution that tracks logons and logoffs by using simple batch-file scripting, helping management to monitor employees’ productivity.
Windows IT Pro
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Anne Grubb
SharePoint Extends a Nonprofit’s Reach
MIS director Richard Drolet discusses the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven's success in using SharePoint to coordinate the efforts of its disparate affiliates and its move to SharePoint Server 2007.
Windows IT Pro
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Anne Grubb
Plan Your Dive, Dive Your Plan
Heed this sound advice: Planning and follow-through are the keys to a successful technology upgrade.
Windows IT Pro
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Eric B. Rux
DNS-AD Rescue
Learn the steps an experienced Windows administrator took to diagnose and fix a fellow IT pro's AD and DNS problems resulting from a messy NT 4.0 upgrade.
Windows IT Pro
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Eric B. Rux
Revving Up to Vista
Members of AMD's IT department self-hosted Windows Vista for months prior to initial deployment. Here's their take on Vista's usability and admin-oriented features, plus a few minor caveats for early Vista adopters.
Windows IT Pro
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Anne Grubb
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[October 18, 2006]
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Two Careers in One
Dave Houghton took a break from his network-analyst job to program a solution that automates updates to a school district's AD and DL data.
Windows IT Pro
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Sue Tibbetts
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