01/01/2002
January 2002 - Outfitting Yourself for 2002
Certification Crossroads: Which Certs will help most? Plus, Windows XP deployment strategies; defragmentation tools; Network Load Balancing Service; 10 security rules.
In-Depth
Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.
Network Load Balancing in Windows 2000 makes your servers more efficient and your network faster. Here’s a quick-study on how to set it up.
Certifications are an important part of most IT professionals’ careers. Now, with more offerings than ever, which ones can help you most?
When setting up a network, forgetting the concepts of scalability and centralized management can have costly consequences down the road.
If XP’s in your future—and the minute you buy new desktop systems, it probably will be—use these strategies to get the most out of Microsoft’s newest OS.
Book Reviews
Little Black Book provides a powerful reference.
Poorly organized but essential anyhow.
A somewhat philosophical, somewhat technical introduction to Microsoft
.NET.
Exam Reviews
Although it’s not the toughest in Microsoft’s pocket, this exam thoroughly tests your knowledge of the company’s latest product.
Product Reviews
DevPartner DB might soon become your SQL toolbox fave.
Here’s a way to light up the mysterious trees in your Active Directory forest.
Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.
NetDeploy Global picks up where Microsoft leaves off on application deployment.
More than your average web filter.
Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.
Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.
Print Screen Works is a “must have” utility.
Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.
Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.
Ecora Configuration Reporter saves you time and grunt work.
Call Me Certifiable
A TechNet article that blames the messengers, not the source, for Microsoft’s security lapses gets Auntie seeing red.
Certified Mail
Boot camp training, spying on coworkers, and tips for preparing for the CISSP exam.
Drill Down
Will Cert21’s Web-based practice exams lead you to certification success?
Editor's Desk
Web Services will evolve as it meets the real world.
Mr. Script
Finding out that .WSF scripts—based on XML—allow you to declare just about anything can be a flexible timesaver.
Professionally Speaking
This month, Greg and Steve address the value and importance of certification vs. good, old-fashioned experience.
Security Advisor
The ISO17799 is a group of policies that would be well worth your time to get to know.
Windows Insider
Knowing how and when to use null sessions, those invisible connections, can get you out of—or into—trouble.
News
Getting an MCSE on Windows 2000 is hard enough when all your senses are working fine. But when one of them isn’t—especially sight—the task is doubly or triply hard.
Test policy applied to all exams as of December 2001.
As a result, MCSA title to be launched officially.
Microsoft to issue special-edition Charter Member MCSA wallet cards to first 5,000 titleholders.
There are some good tidings for those who think the slowing economy is translating to even fewer IT jobs.
Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine wants to find the earliest-certified MCP on the planet!
Are you an NT 4.0 MCSE who has passed most, but not all, of the seven required exams for your Windows 2000 MCSE? If so, you may have achieved your Win2K certification without even knowing it.
Windows XP started out of the gate with a bang, selling more than 7 million copies in the first two weeks of its release, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in November.