Next, tell me if you already know the issue number that you'd like to read, or would you like to do a keyword search?

I know which date/issue that I'd like to retrieve:

Or...I'd like to search by keywords:

Another great way to find an article is to peruse our list of past articles.

Search Help:

This help is dependent on Microsoft's Indexing Service, so it's a mite limited.

Simply typing a sentence does a "freetext" search -- it tries to match as many words as it can.  Also, Index Service gets a mite creative about word forms -- searching for "patches" will yield responses including both "patch" and "patching" as well as "patches."

To do exact searches, enclose in quotes.  "patches" will not match "patch."

Index Server also understands AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses.  You could search for:

"domain controller" and (kerberos or "LAN Manager")

It also understands NEAR, but only in a very lame way -- "NEAR" is defined as "within 50 words" and, no matter what the docs say, it's not possible to redefine.  So this works:

"domain controller" near Kerberos

Finally, you can do wildcard searches, but only if they're surrounded by {phrase} and {/phrase}.  For example, the first issue refers to a reader named Perry Sedlar.   Merely searching for "Sed*" yields nothing.  But this search:

{phrase}Sed*{/phrase}

works.  You can also mix with and/or/not/near:

{phrase}Sed*{/phrase} or Kerberos