09/01/2001
September 2001 - Security Risk Analysis
Inside Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000 security. Plus, blue screen resurrection, network scanners reviewed, and an exclusive interview with Microsoft's training director Anne Marie McSweeney.
In-Depth
Seven network scanners test your security before the crackers do.
Don't let a blue screen stop you. Here's a guide to get your server back online quickly.
The work of risk analysis—evaluating security threats, alerts and all-out panic attacks—is vital to keeping your network safe and sound and you sane.
The work of risk analysis—evaluating security threats, alerts and all-out panic attacks—is vital to keeping your network safe and sound and you sane.
Anne Marie McSweeney, director of certification and skills assessment group at Microsoft, spoke to editors from Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine and CertCities.com during Fusion, the company's partner conference, which took place in Anaheim, California in July 2001.
In an ideal IT world, restoring data to a new server from a dead one wouldn't be a problem: Just rebuild the data and apps from your backup. Welcome to the less-than-perfect world of IT.
What you need to know that you didn't find on Books Online.
A few things you should think about when evaluating vendors for network scanners.
Consider going to the head of the class as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. This briefing tells you how.
A scan can improve the security of your network, but be sure you know the law before you decide to do so.
Book Reviews
There's good information here, but you might have to dig for some of it.
A whole book on RRAS? Absolutely.
Jonathan Knudsen’s Wireless Java will have you writing PDA-friendly SQL Server apps in short time.
Experienced C# early adopters would be smart to keep this slim but useful reference within arms' reach.
An Active Directory text for experienced professionals.
Product Reviews
Seven network scanners test your security before the crackers do.
PowerTCP aims for enterprise applications.
Argent Guardian offers reliable, comprehensive and flexible event monitoring.
Seven network scanners test your security before the crackers do.
Seven network scanners test your security before the crackers do.
Seven network scanners test your security before the crackers do.
Seven network scanners test your security before the crackers do.
This tool can save you from the panic attack that can ensue when you say, "Oops … I deleted it again …"
ActiveBatch helps shore up one of Windows' big weaknesses—scheduling batch files.
Seven network scanners test your security before the crackers do.
Call Me Certifiable
With server consolidation on the horizon, it's time—with Redmond's help—to break out of your mold and expand your skill set.
Drill Down
Exam 70-216 is a bear, thoroughly testing your
knowledge of Windows 2000 networking services.
Analyzing questions and answers can help you slay
the beast.
Editor's Desk
Microsoft's new certification titles—a step in the right direction?
Mr. Script
Say goodbye to the days of endless cutting and pasting and hello to the wonderful world of Windows Script Components.
Professionally Speaking
This month our career advisors write about topics that have been on their minds lately.
Windows Foundation
Sysadmins can't live by Windows 2000 alone. Check
out these handy antivirus protection and backup/restore
programs that can help you get through the day.
Windows Insider
When installing this service, there are myriad options available. Be sure you choose wisely.
News
Newsletter lists numbers and titles for upcoming MCSD exams.
As expected, Microsoft Corp. Friday morning announced that its embattled Windows XP operating system is released to manufacturing.
Our intrepid conference attendee/reporter finds a product amid the marketing hype and gets up to speed on IP and Group Policies at the first official conference day.
Microsoft not expected to release next version of Windows until 2003.
Security, Exchange, security and Windows 2000
migration fill the last two days of the conference
schedule for MCPmag.com reader Rick Johnson.
MCPmag.com invited a reader to attend the MCP
TechMentor Conference in San Francisco. We offered him free attendance in exchange for a daily report on his conference experiences.
Seven thousand MCPs with NT 3.51 titles no longer certified as of June.
New tool simplifies identification of systems' applied hotfixes and patches.
ENTmag.com reports that Microsoft Corp. and the user group for SQL Server postponed their annual SQL Server conference scheduled for next week due to the terrorist attacks of Tuesday.
If you’re not an engineer, you want to be an expert. That’s what the results of a recent MCP Magazine survey say.
Office XP/Windows XP product activation feature can be thwarted, German company finds.
MCPmag.com reader Rick Johnson gets a good dose of Active Directory technical and certification info during the Thursday sessions.
A Microsoft perennial is about to be decommissioned, as Redmond consigns BackOffice to the software scrap-heap at the end of September.