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NetWrix Free System Administration Tools

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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Transfer Logins Between SQL Server Instances

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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Outlook 2007 Deployment

For some unknown reason, Microsoft removed the ability to apply transform files to the Office 2007 suite when installing via MSI. On the flip side they made it much easier to deploy patches in MSP format to Office 2007 when installing via the traditional setup.exe. Give and take I suppose. Why is this a problem? Well if you want to deploy any or all of the Office 2007 suite via Active Directory Group Policy you will need to get a little creative.

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E-mail Address Policy Based on Country

There are a ton of things that the Exchange team did to improve manageability in Exchange Server 2007. This is evident in the number of new rule based wizards that appear throughout the Exchange Management Console. However there are still quite a few things that an administrator needs to handle via the trusty Exchange Management Shell. One of those is the creation of custom E-mail address policies.

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