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Exchange 2007 Availability & Storage
2007 Salary Survey
Laying the Groundwork: Exchange Server 2007
2007 RCP Salary Survey: Partner Paychecks
Laying the Groundwork for Vista
2006-2007 TCPmag.com Internetworking Salary Survey
Microsoft Certification and the Microsoft Partner Program
2006 Salary Survey: Time for a Raise!
Storm Warning: Katrina
Tour de SQL 2005 Part 4: Replication
Tour de SQL 2005 Part 2: Administrative Features
Tour de SQL 2005 Part 3: Performance Tuning
Tour de SQL 2005 Part 1: Versions
The 800-Pound Gorilla: Can Anything Threaten the Microsoft Desktop Empire?
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Small and Medium Business Made Simple
Learn how Nortel can help you provide innovative and strategic communications products and services to your small and medium business customers and partners. This paper also provides a series of resources and contact information to assist partners in achieving their sales, services and support objectives.
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
This white paper discusses how companies are now looking to apply virtualization to their desktop computers. Find out how a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure simplifies desktop administrative and management tasks; allows applications to be added deleted, upgraded and patched more quickly; and centralizes security.
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The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats
This Osterman Research white paper discusses how messaging threats are evolving, both as independent threats and as a delivery mechanism for web-based attacks. Learn how the risks and costs caused by these threats can impact your business and discover the solution delivery models and layers of protection needed to provide a secure defense against spam, spyware, viruses and other forms of malware.
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InterScan Messaging Hosted Security
Trend Micro's hosted email security solution -- InterScan™ -- will help keep your email free from spam, viruses, phishing, and other email threats. As a hosted solution, it requires no hardware or software to install and maintain, thus greatly reducing your IT resource requirements and costs.
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Making the Most of Your E-Mail ... by taking the worry out of it
This white paper helps administrators narrow down the various services that are at their disposal for handling messaging within their organization. Traditional thought leans toward in-house solutions, while a modern approach involves hosted solutions like dedicated messaging, hosted e-mail, hosted Exchange or a combination of solutions. Learn how each may benefit your organization and what to look for in service providers for these hosted solutions.
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Building an Effective File Management Infrastructure
Where are all those files? It is one of the hardest questions in IT sometimes, and it is hammered on IT management from executives, auditors, lawyers, courts and stakeholders in the business. With the staggering growth in data, data center management needs tools to answer this question. This white paper from Brocade provides insight and tools to confront the questions and provide the answers.
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Failover on a Budget: Using Your Own Branch Offices for Business Continuity
This paper discusses how a robust failover strategy can be created using available facilities, and describes the prerequisites for making such a strategy viable, non-disruptive and beneficial to the organization beyond the scope of traditional disaster recovery.
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The Path to Enterprise Desktops: From Personal Computers to Personalized Computing
The world of client computing within the enterprise is in the midst of an evolution. In response to growing challenges, IT organizations are rethinking their client computing strategies. The availability of software models like virtualization helps to facilitate this evolution by changing the delivery method of the desktop environment.
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Load Balancing Basics
Web 2.0 is driving greater user participation, openness and network effects, so that tomorrow’s networks will require an infrastructure that is agile, flexible and dynamic. Is your organization prepared for these changes with a load-balancing solution? Find out how Citrix® NetScaler® offers a powerful and comprehensive solution to these challenges.
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Seven Ways an iSCSI SAN Simplifies Management of Microsoft Exchange 2007
Microsoft Exchanges administrators have a tough job. In the complex, ever-growing Exchange environment is a solution to make life simpler. SAN/iQ®, the storage software platform in LeftHand Networks iSCSI SANs, works with clustered, enterprise class x86 servers to create the ideal storage architecture. Learn seven, time-saving tips for managing Exchange.
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Secure the Perimeter and Weather the Storm(bot)
This paper reviews how malicious e-mail volume is rising at an alarming rate, both in terms of number and message size. Spam is now incorporated into the propagation strategies of blended malware attacks and increasingly sophisticated techniques are outwitting first-generation e-mail security solutions.
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A Modern Approach to On-Demand Email and Data Security
Download this white paper and learn how Proofpoint delivers a dedicated, hosted email security solution that combines state-of-the-art anti-spam and virus control with comprehensive data security and easy-to-use encryption features … with all the control and flexibility that enterprises require.
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Save Big With Microsoft Services Provider Licensing
Hosting Providers save big with Microsoft Services Provider Licensing. License the latest Microsoft software on a monthly basis, risk free, to provide services and hosted applications to your end customers. Better still, there are no upfront costs and you pay for only what you use!
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For a Limited Time, You Can Try a free Official Microsoft E-Learning Course!
Get the skills you need with Official Microsoft E-Learning. Choose from more than 1,400 hours of training for IT professionals and developers on the latest products, including Windows Vista, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Visual Studio. Register to receive a promotional code that you can redeem for one free e-learning course.
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Remote Control Software: A Primer
Remote control software helps IT professionals better manage help desk support, mobile computing, desktop management, software training, distance learning and system automation. Learn about the key features to look for while researching remote management solutions.
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Virtualization Everywhere
Adoption of virtualization is concentrated among large enterprises, while adoption by mid-sized companies has been much slower. For these companies, the cost and complexity of server virtualization solutions has been a barrier. In this paper, we discuss how Citrix XenServer™ provides simple, economical server virtualization for any size company.
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Next Generation Solutions for Spam: A Predictive Approach
Mounting an effective defense against spam requires detection techniques that can evolve as quickly as the attacks themselves. Proofpoint MLX™ technology leverages the latest machine learning techniques to provide a revolutionary spam detection system that analyzes millions of messages to automatically adjust its detection algorithms to identify even the newest spam attacks without manual tuning or administrator intervention.
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Storm: The First Comprehensive Solution for Internet Fraud
The Storm worm, launched January 2007, was the first comprehensive solution for Internet fraud and attacks. Studying Storm helps us understand the current state-of-the-art hacking techniques and provides valuable lessons for the future.
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Data Protection Strategies Using Replication
An In-Depth Look at Evaluation Criteria and Usage Scenarios
As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. In this white paper, four data protection strategies for common scenarios are compared.
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Protecting SharePoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0
Microsoft SharePoint® streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create remote project teams with only an Internet connection. Download this white paper today to learn how to use Double-Take Software as a cost efficient way to protect your SharePoint data and access.
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Virtualization Technologies and Their Impact on Disaster Recovery Planning
The need to protect your virtualized systems is paramount. Double-Take® delivers enterprise-class disaster recovery and high availability solutions for cutting-edge virtual environments. Read this white paper to learn more about enterprise-class disaster recovery and high availability solutions for cutting-edge virtual environments.
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Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About
Web 2.0 opens us up to many kinds of new attacks. IT Administrators have been forced to adjust their thinking in order to deal with these new attacks and keep systems and data secured. How can you ensure that your systems are safe in this new world of IT Threats?
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Active Directory Auditing and Recovery: What's New in Windows Server 2008
This white paper focuses on two key areas for Active Directory operations: (1) Auditing and (2) Backup and Recovery, along with information on where the Windows Server 2008 toolset leaves off, and where the right third-party solution can provide broader coverage and enhanced management capabilities.
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Core PCI Requirements for Windows and Active Directory
Learn about the key challenges and requirements of Payment card Industry DSS as it relates to Microsoft Windows and Active Directory, and discover you how a third-party software solution can help with PCI compliance.
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Steps for a Successful Exchange Migration
Migrating to a new messaging system is a tedious, complex and risky process. And since this isn't something you do everyday, you need to know "best practices” to ensure a successful migration. In this paper, we address the major challenges associated with migrating to a new messaging infrastructure, the steps to consider to ensure a successful migration and the solutions available to help you reduce the complexity and risk.
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Efficient Disaster Recovery for Active Directory: How to Complement Your Existing Processes with Cost-Effective Solutions
In this paper we explore what your existing disaster recovery processes already address, highlight potential weak points and suggest solutions that help fill those gaps -- without requiring you to completely re-do your existing plan or buy monolithic software applications that don't precisely address your needs.
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Geek Speak Webcast: Tips on Optimizing WAN Management
Do you need expert tips for defining a WAN management plan that addresses today's network challenges? SolarWinds Head Geek can help. Download this on-demand webcast to get the scoop on the latest trends for effective WAN management and the best practices for leveraging cost-saving technologies without impacting network performance.
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Second Shot has been EXTENDED for a limited time!
Due to popular demand, Second Shot has been extended through June 30, 2008. With Second Shot all MCP candidates can get a free second chance to pass a Microsoft IT Professional, Developer, project manager, or Microsoft Dynamics certification exam. This offer is open to worldwide MCP candidates who fail their first attempt at one of these exams. This offer extension is for a limited time only, so register for the offer now! To register or to learn more about getting a free second chance to pass your Microsoft Certification exam ...
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Storage Virtualization and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualization at the controller level of a storage system. Virtualization technology allows companies to respond quickly to ever-changing storage capacity requirements. Virtualization has multiple definitions and many different implementations in a storage area network (SAN). This document describes how HP defines virtualization technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
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Total Cost of Ownership White Paper: EMC, NetApp, and HP Midrange Storage Arrays
Read about a variety of disaster tolerant reference architectures for various operating systems -- all with the HP Integrity server as the foundation. In each case, whether for HP-UX 11i, HP OpenVMS, Linux or Windows, learn how the architectures are built out from a basic high-availability environment all the way to an extreme wide-area disaster tolerant configuration.
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Maximizing Site Visitor Trust Using Extended Validation SSL
Increase customer confidence with Extended Validation (EV) SSL. EV SSL is the latest advancement in SSL in the past decade. Learn how it can display a green address bar for your customers-- giving them the green light to transact on your site.
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ROI and Other Cost Benefits of Reputation-Based Services
After reading this white paper you will not only understand the importance of securing the network edge with a global reputation service but will also appreciate the huge savings that can be realized.
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Enterprise IP PBX Buyers Guide: Features and Services That Matter
Learn the critical features and differentiators for Enterprise Class IP PBXs and the issues you should consider during your decision-making process. Download this Buyer's Guide now to get started with your research and evaluation of IP PBX Systems.
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Enterprise PBX Comparison Guide
This comparison guide features the leading PBX systems from established vendors like Siemens, Cisco, Avaya and Nortel as well as cutting edge systems form new vendors like Shoretel and Fonality. Download this comparison guide now to help you in your evaluation
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Hosted CRM Buyer's Guide
In the market for a CRM? This white paper outlines the general benefits and drawbacks of hosted vs. on-premise CRMs and lists the basic features to look for in your hosted solution. With an up-to-date overview of the CRM market and a rundown of the general costs of various CRMs today, you'll be prepared to start looking for your new solution immediately.
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Mobile Workforce Productivity
Securing Mobile Connectivity with Two-Factor Authentication
Enterprises from all walks of life are proving the value of working remotely. As any road warrior will attest, staying connected to email, core applications, and customer data is critical to job performance and productivity. Two-factor authentication solutions offer a much-needed lock and key mechanism to protect user identity for remote access logins. Read this white paper and learn about solutions that make securing the remote access connection simple!
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Embracing PCI -- Making It Work for You
With the recent rise in data breaches and identity thefts, implementing a sound information security program is no longer optional. Companies processing credit card information must implement secure strategies to protect the confidentiality and integrity of payment information. This white paper provides guidance on how to achieve PCI compliance and gives a summary analysis of the 12 security requirements of the PCI security standard.
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How AON Simplified File Transfers with GlobalSCAPE
With EFT server AON Corporation consolidated their sensitive data transfers. The solution provided secure protocol support and encryption to protect data in transit and at rest, automation to move data to where it is needed and non-repudiation to guarantee delivery and receipt. AON reduced 15 servers down to 4 and saved $284,000 per year on licenses and maintenance.
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Resources for a Successful Unified Communications Deployment
To realize the value of unified communications most enterprises have to integrate new communications solutions within existing infrastructures from multiple vendors. Learn how to integrate these mixed technology/mixed vendor environments to quickly take advantage of the extraordinary benefits that unified communications can provide.
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Fax Purchasing Decision: Fax Server or Fax Service?
A White Paper Prepared by Davidson Consulting
This new resource by fax industry analyst Davidson Consulting, "Fax Purchasing Decision: Fax Server or Fax Service?" outlines key factors to consider in determining whether to go with a fax server or fax service. The paper also highlights Esker as a leader in offering both on-premise and on-demand fax solutions.
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Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention
Drawing on customer experience, Forrester Consulting, and data gathered from TrustedSource™ (the Secure Computing® global Web and messaging reputation system), as well as third-party sources, this paper outlines the new Web 2.0 threats and explains why most security solutions in place today are not adequate to protect against these threats. The paper then goes on to propose a set of Seven Design Requirements for Web 2.0 Threat Prevention, and reviews Secure Computing’s relevant product and technology offerings.
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Gauging the Impact of Fragmentation
Defrag Tech Spotlight
Read this white paper and get detailed instructions and information about the fragmentation on your drives; discover how you can solve any fragmentation problems.
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Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper
Defrag Tech Spotlight
How can you eliminate your SQL Server Databases' I/O bottlenecks, data gridlock, and bandwidth clogs? This white paper explains how fragmentation is responsible for many of these lags and more!
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Avaya Unified Communications: The Business Value of Unifying Communications
Get an overview of the business value related to Avaya and Microsoft's joint Unified Communications solutions. It includes valuable information for you to better understand the elements and steps involved in making the Unified Communications decision and covers the important factors that will help make your Unified Communications solution implementation a success.
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Internet Risk Management In The Web 2.0 World
An Internet risk study by Forrester Consulting
This FREE report details the prevalence of Web 2.0 in the enterprise and why the need for more effective Web protection has never been greater! Learn how to thwart the new malware that uses the Web to propagate a plethora of new threats undeterred by traditional security means.
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Did you GET the memo? Getting you from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 Security
The Web is becoming more dangerous. Read about the inherent security threats and design considerations for implementation of Web 2.0 application services and how to protect users within the enterprise network from the new security threats.
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Extend the Value of Microsoft Office Applications with Avaya Unified Communications
A step-by-step guide for IT leaders on the considerations, options and benefits of unifying communications
Unified Communications is driving the next major advancement in individual, team and organizational productivity in today’s 24X7, always connected and increasingly mobile environment. This paper describes how Avaya and Microsoft are working together in the Unified Communications space and how to successfully implement Avaya Unified Communications in Microsoft environments.
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2007 Salary Survey: Cheers! IT Salaries Up in 2007
The 12th Annual Salary Survey, a joint effort of Redmond and MCPmag.com, once again has good news to report: salaries, raises and bonuses went up again! And overall IT job satisfaction continues to be positive. In this year's report, you'll also find advice from a hiring manager, the outlook for hot certifications next year and more charts to give you the complete picture on salaries going into 2008.
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Migration to the 2007 Microsoft Office System: A Roadmap for Success
The unique features of the 2007 Microsoft Office System make it an extremely challenging migration. However, best practices and automation can significantly improve process efficiency and reliability. This white paper examines the issues presented and best practices for migration to the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
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Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Infrastructure
Adopted by over 20,000 enterprise IT organizations worldwide, VMware virtualization software has saved billions of dollars in hardware and operational costs. This paper clarifies how adopting VMware infrastructure as a fundamental IT strategy helps organizations achieve their cost- and space-saving goals.
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The Impact of Virtualization Software on Operating Environments
Virtualization of system resources aboard x86 servers is one technology that has the distinct potential to really change the dynamics of the industry in many ways. This paper presents IDC's assessment of how virtualization technologies will impact operating environments and the operating environment market over the near and longer term.
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Visual Studio Magazine 2007 Readers Choice Awards and Buyers Guide
Get Visual Studio Magazine's 2007 Readers Choice Awards and Buyers Guide, your annual special issue that lists the astounding number of third-party products available to developers who use Visual Studio. This year's list includes more than 450 products from nearly 250 vendors, broken down into 22 categories, plus our 2007 Readers Choice Award and Editors Choice Award winners.
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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, E-mail Discovery and You
An Osterman Research Position Paper
E-mail is increasingly used in a variety of legal and regulatory proceedings. However, Microsoft Exchange provides a very limited tool set for the extraction and presentation of data on demand. This paper discusses the key issues involved in proper data retention and retrieval, and discusses Lucid8’s DigiScope offering that can satisfy these requirements easily and inexpensively.
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