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TechNet Magazine – October 2012

The October 2012 edition of the TechNet Magazine is now available for online reading.

• Editor’s Note: Work together

Featured Articles:

• Cloud Computing: Developing unique cloud solutions
  By Niten Malik
  When developing cloud solutions for specialized organizations such as government agencies, there are a number of areas to consider, including security, mobility and interoperability.
• IT Management: Take the innovation initiative
  By Laurence Jacobs, and Nicholas Smith
  There are a number of potential transaction models for acquiring and developing innovative technology, each with its own benefits and challenges.
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: High availability strategies
  By Jaap Wesselius
  The strategies Microsoft offers for creating highly available Microsoft Exchange mailboxes have evolved over the years.
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Virtual management
  By Paul Schnackenburg
  You can manage the fabric of your entire virtual infrastructure with the new System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
• Windows 7: Take control of system security
  By Jorge Orchilles
  The Control Panel in Windows 7 provides a number of options for securing your system, configuring backups, adjusting firewall settings and so on.
• Active Directory: Active Directory your way
  By Brien Posey
  The way you set up your Active Directory topography will have a direct impact on how well you’re able to organize your users and resources.
• IT Management: IT’s marketing problem
  By Romi Mahajan
  The way people perceive IT is more about myth than reality. Here are several of the more common misconceptions, and ways to set things straight.
• SharePoint 2010: Brand your SharePoint sites
  By Steve Wright , and Corey Erkes
  SharePoint 2010 comes with sufficient branding features to help you apply your corporate branding standards to any type of SharePoint site.

Columns:

• Utility Spotlight: Help for your ribbon-phobic users
  By Lance Whitney
  The light-hearted Ribbon Hero 2 can help your users work more easily with the Ribbon interface in Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010.
• Windows Confidential: The service pack shuffle
  By Raymond Chen
  How can you be certain you’re receiving all the right patches and updates with a new service pack? Rest assured—they’re in there.
• Toolbox: New products for IT professionals
  By Greg Steen
  Stress test your application stack and expand your toolset with Windows versions of popular Unix/Linux-based command-line utilities with this month’s tools.
• Windows PowerShell: My Windows PowerShell profile
  By Don Jones
  The profile scripts are a powerful way to customize Windows PowerShell and have it ready to work the way you want it to work.
• Geek of All Trades: The new certifications
  By Greg Shields
  There’s a whole “new” crop of reconfigured and reclassified Microsoft certification exams, but how much has the focus and the gravitas changed?