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I recently came across NetWrix, a software company that specializes in system administration tools and utilities.  They seem to really have hit a niche that has been a pain point for many administrators over the years.  Whats even better is that NetWrix offers free versions of several of their products and not just limited evaluations either.

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There are any number of reasons that you might need to transfer the logins between instances of SQL Server. One of the most common times this is necessary is when performing a SQL Server consolidation or migration.  The good news is that its a fairly easy task to perform for several generations of SQL Server.

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A colleague of mine recently pointed me to this great article on the scalability of office productivity suites on terminal services. The tests reviewed OpenOffice 2.1, Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2007.

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In Exchange 2007, Microsoft has all but removed the ability to use ExMerge in working with Exchange mailboxes.  They now encourage you to use the Export-Mailbox cmdlet which sounds like a great idea… until you actually try to use it.

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In order to get Citrix clients prior to version 11 to function with Citrix XenApp running on Windows Server 2008 you will need to install a hotfix from Microsoft. 

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