Readers’ Choice: Shaping the IT Industry
The 2006 Readers' Choice awards continue our tradition of honoring the products our readers tell us are tops in their categories. And this year, AMD dual-core Opteron processors take the overall Best New Product award. Editors
Business Applications
Here are the top products in customer relationship management software, document management/imaging software, and enterprise resource planning. Editors
Disaster Prevention and Recovery
Readers tell us about the best enterprise backup/recovery/archive software, enterprise backup, recovery, archive hardware, desktop backup/recovery/ archive solution, backup/recovery/archive solution, continuous data protection solution, and UPS. Editors
Messaging
Here are the products our readers designate tops for antispam/mailserver, antispam/client, mail server, collaboration, IM solution, mail archiving, Exchange backup/disaster recovery, and Exchange migration. Editors
Network Infrastructure
Learn about our readers' favorite 802.11a/b/g/pre-n wireless access point, fax gateway, KVM switch, switch, and VPN solution. Editors
Network Management
In the network management category, our readers identified their favorite load balancer, network analyzer, and network layout and design tool. Editors
Remote Computing
Here are the remote control software and VPN solution products our readers like most. Editors
Security
Readers designate their favorite firewalls, proxy server, intrusion detection solution, vulnerability scanner, antivirus solutions, spyware blocker, and user authentication solution in the Security category. Editors
Storage
Our readers choose the best NAS device, SAN array, storage management software, and quota management software. Editors
Systems Management
Readers vote for the best Systems Management products, awarding top honors to 18 tools. Editors
Training and Certification
Readers choose the best boot camp, computer-based training, instructor-led training, and Web-based training. Editors
Utilities
Readers weigh in on the year's best automation/scheduling tool, defragmentation utility, emergency recovery console utility, file-compression tool, file-system tool, scripting editor, and undelete utility. Editors
FEATURES
Troubleshooting Group Policy
Successful Group Policy troubleshooting results from knowing where to look, enabling Group Policy logging, and taking advantage of available administrative tools. Darren Mar-Elia
Segregate Your DNS Servers
The key to effective DNS design in the enterprise is to segregate DNS servers into distinct roles. Here's how to set it up. Mark Burnett
Ask the Experts, September 2006
Experts tell you how to capitalize surnames on Mail Merge printouts, how to restricting users to one concurrent Terminal Services session, how to protect your home computing environment, and how to maintain a clean registry. Various Authors
Another Way to Provide the Missing Link
Windows doesn’t offer a built-in group that can manage client computers but not crucial servers, such as DCs. Here's another way you can create a group to fill this void. Readers
What You Need to Know About Microsoft Antigen
The first round of Microsoft-branded Sybari antivirus products are ready to hit the market. Find out how Microsoft improved on these products, what they have to offer, and Microsoft's future plans for this product line. Paul Thurrott
Get Virtual with R2 EE
Upcoming product releases are in the industry spotlight, but companies need present-day solutions for their problems. Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition's free virtualization functionality can serve as a solution right now. Karen Forster
Letters@windowsitpro.com
A reader wonders about the lack of Lotus Notes coverage in Windows IT Pro, and two IT Pro Perspective columns draw comments. Readers, et al.
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What’s Hot, September 2006
Readers highlight favorite products: 3SP's SSL-Explorer Community Edition, triCerat's ScrewDrivers, Teneros Application Continuity Appliance for Microsoft Exchange, and XOsoft's WANSyncHA Exchange Blake Eno
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