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COVER STORY Tour de SQL Part II: Administrative Features 12 Microsoft and Every year, the Tour de France is won or EU in Showdown lost in the mountains. In this stage of our Attacks on EU tour of SQL Server 2005, we look at the monitoring trustee fail to slow critical administrative features that make down pace of ruling. or break the new database. Page 29 Shades of Netscape Microsoft, VMware in virtualization showdown. PHOTO BY GRAHAM WATSON 14 Beta Man FEATURES Exchange 12: Unified Messaging Rules 38 The Best of the Best COLUMNS The 2006 Redmond Readers’ Choice Awards 4 Barney’s Rubble: Doug Barney The readers have spoken. Computers Make You Stupid Here are the results of the 21 Mr. Roboto: Don Jones 2006 Redmond Readers’ Choice Does Anybody Really Know What survey—45 categories of the Time It Is? tools and utilities that keep your networks running smoothly. 61 Never Again: David Harding Out of Control 53 Productivity on the Go Never install software again! We 62 Windows Insider: Greg Shields look at 20 top portable apps, from Extending Security office suites to IP scanners. Page 39 67 Security Advisor: Joern Wettern Microsoft at Your Service REVIEWS 72 Foley on Microsoft: 16 Still Beating 22 Reader Review Mary Jo Foley Neverfail can keep your SQL Server 2005 Is the Microsoft Live: A Six-Month Exchange server running One to Beat Report Card through just about any disaster. Super-fast performance, robust ALSO IN THIS ISSUE toolset and better security options make Microsoft’s latest database 2 Redmond Magazine Online management system a must for 6 [email protected] most shops. 71 Ad and Editorial Indexes COVER IMAGE BY GRAHAM WATSON 0506red_OnlineTOC_2.v6 4/18/06 12:06 PM Page 2 Redmondmag.comMAY 2006 MCP Radio/ENT Questions With ... Emmett Dulaney Group Policy Grows with Emmett Dulaney, author of Windows Vista Redmondmag.com’s new Linux/Windows integration column, esides security enhancements, Group Policy undergoes FullArmor CTO Integration Station (FindIT code: Bvast improvements in Windows Vista, and that’s what Danny Kim says LinWin), on the state of interop today: Microsoft has gets FullArmor CTO Danny Kim excited. “The number of been focusing Group Policy settings is doubled in [the beta version of] lots of attention Biggest challenge for Windows IT on refining Windows Vista,” says Kim—upward of more than three thousand. Windows Vista pros who want to integrate Linux But he loves that Microsoft provides a nifty search filter to help Group Policy. and Windows? you narrow down what you’re looking for. “Kind of like a Convincing management not to blindly Google for Group Policy,” he adds. 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Writers, artists and editors slunk E-mail and IM has replaced the phone [email protected] out of their caves, rubbed their eyes and or a walk down the hall. We use emoti- News Editor Scott Bekker stood around talking sports. (This is cons to mimic the real thing. Personal [email protected] Managing Editor, Wendy Gonchar when I discovered my co-workers don’t relationships and business relationships Web Editor [email protected] consider pro wrestling to be a real sport.) have become automated. Editor, Redmondmag.com, Becky Nagel CertCities.com [email protected] One by one, we drove home to where Redmond readers share these concerns. Editor, MCPmag.com Michael Domingo our wireless networks hummed along “Everyone’s been ‘stupidized’ by comput- [email protected] merrily so we could get some real work ers these days. Here’s an example: retail Editor, ENTmag.com Scott Bekker done. It could have been store, computers crash, [email protected] Associate Editor, Web Dan Hong worse. 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