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From the editor:
Kudos to our newly-minted MVPs |
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Featured Topic:
All about AD OUs |
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Expert Technical Advice:
Featured Expert: Jerry Honeycutt, Desktop Administration
Site Exclusives:
>>The top Windows products of the year
>>Desktop decisions: A special report
>>Avoiding Active Directory trouble spots
Tip of the Week: Build an affordable practice lab at home |
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Site Highlights:
White Paper: Fundamentals of Web site acceleration
White Paper: Securing e-mail systems
White Paper: Major techniques for classifying spam |
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by Margie Semilof, Senior News Writer
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What do Lee Benjamin, Roberta Bragg, Larry Duncan, Laura Hunter, Paul Hinsberg and Jeremy Moskowitz have in common -- aside from being members of SearchWin2000.com's expert team or advisory board?
All were recently awarded the designation of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status. We are especially happy about this news because when it comes to choosing our experts, we already knew we had picked some of the best and brightest from the Windows IT community. It turns out that Microsoft thinks we do a pretty good job as well.
So what exactly is an MVP anyway? The designation of MVP is Microsoft's way of recognizing an individual status as an active and credible expert in their respective technical communities. These individuals also demonstrate a level of technical passion regarding their expertise with Microsoft products.
What goodies do they get? They don't get paid but they do get some free software. MVPs can travel to Redmond to attend the annual spring MVP Summit. At the conference, MVPs usually get access to Microsoft executives who are happy to participate in a two-way dialog about products, strategy and anything else that touches customers.
The MVP program has been around for about 11 years and includes about 1,800 members. Recipients don't have to be technical consultants, by the way, though many are. In the past, Microsoft's MVPs have come from such diverse backgrounds as artists, authors, developers and business managers, to name a few.
We are especially proud of our experts and offer them congratulations and appreciation for a job that is always well done.
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All about AD OUs
by Christine Polewarczyk, Site Editor
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Learn about the rationale for the use of OUs in your AD infrastructure and the finer technical aspects of managing and manipulating OU permissions and properties.
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Expert Technical Advice: |
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Featured Expert: Jerry Honeycutt
Category: Desktop Administration
Dear Jerry:
How can I reduce roaming profile size? I want users to keep a profile of 15 MB so that new software keeps the application data outside of the profile. Currently we use Windows NT and many users can't log out because new software like Netscape and Adobe puts a lot of data in the application folder of the roaming folder.
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Click here to read Jerry Honeycutt's expert response.
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Site Exclusives
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The top Windows products of the year
The editors of SearchWin2000.com recently assessed the 2003 crop of enterprise Windows products, with an eye toward helping users choose those must-have tools to keep their desktops, servers and Exchange applications up and running. |
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Desktop decisions: A special report
Continued supremacy over the desktop will be a key challenge for Microsoft in the near term. SearchWin2000.com devoted this three-part series to issues that enterprises must consider when deciding which desktop system is right for them. |
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Avoiding Active Directory trouble spots
Active Directory still finds ways to vex IT managers, with most issues occurring in the design phases. In this Q&A with resident reporter Margie Semilof, Kenton Gardinier, a senior consultant with Oakland, Calif.-based Convergent Computing -- and an author, public speaker and Windows expert -- points out some of the common misperceptions of Active Directory and ways to navigate around problem spots. |
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| Tip of the Week: Build an affordable practice lab at home |
| Everybody who knows anything about the current crop of Microsoft certification exams knows that hands-on practice, "interface driving" skills and experience are more important than ever before. This raises the question of how to get that kind of experience. One way is to install an affordable test network at home and practice everything you can on it. |
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Site Highlights |
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White Paper: Fundamentals of Web site acceleration
Explore "best practice" strategies, including source code optimization, cache control and HTTP compression that can be systematically employed in Web front-end source code.
Read this white paper to learn how to implement these performance improvements.
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White Paper: Securing e-mail systems
Explore IronMail, the comprehensive protection for e-mail systems, including antispam, antivirus, secure Web mail, secure delivery, and policy enforcement. Steer away threats to your e-mail system with this white paper.
Click here to learn from this white paper how you can steer away threats to your e-mail system.
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White Paper: Major techniques for classifying spam
Block spam today -- read about the latest techniques here.
Discover effective methods for capturing spam on both transport and content levels, and read about the latest methods of identifying spam, including fingerprint analysis, lexical analysis, artificial intelligence, and more.
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