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The Microsoft Security Debate: The Final Chapter

Roberta responds to a readers' essay on what he views as Microsoft's poorly implemented security strategy.

Secure Your Directory-Enabled Apps

Find out how Active Directory Application Mode and Windows Authorization Manager can simplify security, personalization, and configuration for your directory-enabled applications.

Password Currency

Why it's important for remote users to change passwords regularly.

Giving Up Privilege

Learn how to properly manage admin accounts.

A Server By Any Other Name

....hums along smoothly, if the PDC is migrated correctly in this reader's NT-to-Windows 2003 upgrade. The Exchange 5.5-to-Exchange 2003 migration may be a tad more problematic.

Divide and Conquer

Are you role-playing with your network? If not, you’re missing a powerful way to make it more secure.

First National Bank of Bill

What business is Microsoft in, anyhow?

Augment Default Controls With Inheritance

Visual Studio .NET ships with a nice set of controls and classes to build Windows applications, but with only a little effort, you can augment these controls so they serve you better.

Window of Opportunity

Now is the time for those projects we've all been putting off.

Accelerate the Delivery of .NET Apps

Check out a number of .NET add-ins, including one that helps accelerate the deliver of .NET Framework solutions.

Developers Turn to Blogs

Blogging gives developers (and others) a new way to share information on the Web. Learn more about blogging, as well as FTP's own blogging site.

It's Time for VB6+

VB.NET is the way of the future, but Microsoft should provide developers with a VB6+ to ease the transition.

Freeze Frame

Windows Server 2003’s Volume Shadow Copy Service can help you stop time. Here’s how to take full advantage of it.

Simplify Site Updates With Templates

Use a template to create a consistent look and feel for a Web site that doesn't require the end user who updates the site to be a programmer himself.

Defend Against Attacks

Add a couple more techniques to your arsenal of ways to safeguard your password-protected apps from dictionary attacks.

The Microsoft Security Debate, Part Two

Roberta responds to the critics of Microsoft's methods.

The Microsoft Security Debate, Part One

Two users critique Microsoft's understanding of security.

The Perils of Patching

The process of keeping systems updated shouldn't be treated as the mindless that we mistake it for; no strategy is an invitation to disaster.

A Call to Arms, Continued

Letters from the security front.

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