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TechNet Magazine – February 2011

The February 2011 edition of the TechNet Magazine is now available for online reading.

• Editor's Note: Go Virtual

Featured Articles:

• Microsoft Forefront: Secure Access to Your Cloud Services
  By Yuri Diogenes
  You can provide secure access to cloud services while maintaining business continuity using Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010.
• Windows Azure: Understanding Security Account Management in Windows Azure
  By Joshua Hoffman
  Cloud computing relieves some of the security burden, but you still have an active role in managing access, securing communications and ensuring data protection.
• Virtualization: Sustainability and Savings Go Hand-in-Hand with Virtualization
  By Joshua Hoffman
  With virtualization, reducing you carbon output and increasing your bottom line go hand-in-hand. It can help you save power, consolidate resources, while also introducing added flexibility, scalability and resilience to your infrastructure.
• Virtualization: Prepare to Virtualize
  By Brian Marranzini
  Getting ready to deploy virtual machines in your infrastructure requires a bit of homework and legwork, but the payoffs are worthwhile.
• Server Virtualization: Partition and Conquer
  By William Stanek
  Taking a proactive stance toward server maintenance with dynamic hardware partitioning can help you balance your virtual server workload.
• Microsoft Office 365: Boost Your Business Productivity
  By Joshua Hoffman
  Office 365 is the next step in the evolution of business tools, delivering cloud-based productivity that complements the Office desktop experience.
• Cloud Computing: The Power of System Center in the Cloud
  By Joshua Hoffman
  Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center can accelerate your adoption of an IT-as-a-service model, which enables greater business agility, scalability and flexibility.

Columns:

• The Business of IT: IT is the Real Breakthrough
  By Romi Mahajan
  While the Internet has led to sweeping changes in how we deal with information, who do we really have to thank for that?
• Utility Spotlight: Remote Control
  By Lance Whitney
  You can’t be in two places at once, so the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 let you remotely manage your servers.
• Geek of All Trades: No MED-V? P2V XP to W7 with MDT
  By Greg Shields
  Running an IT shop has always come with a side order of alphabet soup. That’s not likely to change any time soon.
• Exchange Q&A: Upgrade Issues
  By Henrik Walther
  There can be a number of unanticipated issues when upgrading to Exchange 2010, including address list segregation, relocating security groups and hosted messaging.
• Windows PowerShell: Package and Distribute Custom Windows PowerShell Tools
  By Don Jones
  You can accomplish some interesting things with dot-sourcing, but that can also lead to certain limitations if you’re not careful.
• Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals
  By Greg Steen
  This month’s tools help you streamline Windows PowerShell operations and use drag-and-drop functions to build extensions for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.
• Windows Confidential: The Legend of Uninstall
  By Raymond Chen
  Even doing something as simple as installing or uninstalling a program requires Windows to dig up information such as application size and date.