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Sponsor Post: Join Us for the Identity Access Management Live Expert Chat on 7/20 at 11am ET

ITKE — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:31:59 +0000

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ITKE — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:27:21 +0000

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Sponsor Post: Live Expert Chat 6/1: Drive Your Business Forward with SharePoint 2010

EmNichs — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:18:01 +0000

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EmNichs — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:34:57 +0000

All you have to do is correctly answer 5 multiple choice questions, each with a hint provided, and you could be the owner of a new Dell Precision T7500 Tower Workstation Desktop Computer with the Quad Core Intel Xeon Processor.

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New Member contest: Win a free iPad

ITKE — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:34:35 +0000

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The most-watched IT questions this week: March 9, 2010

Michael Morisy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:27:32 +0000

1. A member asks how they can apply GPOs to non-domain computers to make sure they don’t get on the corporate domain, and MrDenny, Technochic, Denwood, and SiThu help with a solution.

2. A member asks about business intelligence in a cloud environment.

3. A SQL Server reader asks how to monitor log files in SQL Server 2000 database and MrDenny responds.

4. A Data Center reader asks about recommended temperature and humidity ranges for a data center. Mattmclain, Aquacer0, MrDenny, and WhatIs23 all provide input.

5. A Data Center reader asks about keeping a UPS cool, and XENOPHON22 and Dave MC offer their thoughts.

Read the Community Blog for the rest of the Top 10.

The most-watched IT questions this week: Feb. 16, 2010

ITKE — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:36:55 +0000

1. JHite ran into an Outlook 2003 display name issue for contact with multiple email, and XENOPHON22, Mrdenny and Carlosdl helped out.

2. Windows Server 2003 is giving a member some installation trouble, and MrDenny offers some advice.

3. Can you block Exchange 2007 admins from viewing other admin’s mailboxes? No, according to Technochic and MrDenny, although XENOPHON22 offers some thoughts on a workaround.

4. Jagoodie asks if it’s possible to alter Column Drop Identity in T/SQL, and MrDenny and CarlosDL reveal the truth.

5. A member asks about the max logins per user in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, but no one has answered yet!

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The IT Blog Top 10: Feb. 4, 2010

Michael Morisy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:49:40 +0000

Here are the most popular blog posts on the ITKnowledgeExchange network this week. Read the rest of the top 10 on the Community Blog, or apply for your own blog by e-mailing me at Michael@ITKnowledgeExchange.com.

1. How to allow the root user to log in to VMware ESX Server with SSH David Davis’ how-to on allowing users into a VMware server via SSH works wonders for the virtualization crowd.

2. Choosing a block size when creating VMFS datastores Eric Siebert discusses how to choose the right allocation for your VMFS datastores.

3. Using VRDP to view VirtualBox virtual machines remotely Rick Vanover shares a technique to help make remote administration a little easier.

4. Standard Server 2003 Migration to SBS 2008 Part 3 Roger Crawford’s third part of his series on Server 2003 migrations.

5. 201 CMR 17 FAQ: Updates to Massachusetts data protection law Alexander Howard takes a look at the update to 201.CMR.1, which moves the implementation deadline to March 1st and changes some key provisions to the data protection law.

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The most-watched IT questions this week: Feb. 2, 2010

Michael Morisy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:36:24 +0000

Tick tock, tick tock. What’s that sound? The countdown for the Nexus One Challenge. What? You’ve moved on? Well anyways, get knowledge points and earn good karma for our inevitable* iPad contest at some indeterminate point, you bandwagon-hopper you. In the meantime, here’s our hottest questions from the past week, as tallied by number of people who’ve added them to their Watch List.

1. A member asked which training and certification incentives are cost effective, which received stellar responses from MrDenny, KevinBeaver and HoyleT.

2. A member asked if you can downgrade from Windows Server 2008 R2 to R1. The answer? See MrDenny’s response, and YasirIrfan’s tips.

3. YBA has a project that requires tackling some tricky SQL transaction log file problems, but MrDenny and CarlosDL offer some thoughts and advice.

4. A reader asks for server purchasing advice. Rparamount, MrDenny and MarkHolt deliver the goods.

5. Ksr1234 is trying to find better network monitoring software, and MrDenny, Labnuke99, and KevinBeaver offer suggestions.

Read the rest of the most-watched questions.