Columns


Voodoo Exchange

Moving to Exchange 2000 offers a valuable opportunity for jumpers and their more methodological counterparts to learn that permissions define possibilities and practicalities.

Outlook Automation with OLE

Via your scripts, you can add Contacts, Journal and Calendar entries with ease. No bull.

Group Policy Part 3

Group Policy is all about being efficient. Here's how to get there by setting up users' Windows Setting with Administrative Templates.

Legacy Lament

Advice about when to stay at your job and when to jump.

Keeping Time in Windows 2000

The Windows Time Synchronization service ensures that all your machines stay—tick for tock—on the same clock.

Get Cash Back for Passing Windows MCSE Exams

LearnKey promises a cash rebate if you pass the Win2K exams using its prep materials. Is the MasterExam product that good?

The Platform

Practice, Practice — Then Pass?

Osborne states its Test Yourself MCSE practice exam books will help you ace the Windows 2000 exams. Will they?

Double D'Oh!

We all make mistakes—some are just more obvious than others. But it’s a graceful recovery that separates the gurus from the geeks.

Back to Basics

So forget about your MCSE already!

Digging Deeper into Group Policy

Now that you've been formally introduced, here's how to use group policies to install software and set security.

Database Design 101

Queries work well if the databases are designed correctly. Here's what you need to know to build the foundations for your SQL Server databases.

Objective Exposure

The process of automation allows you to script your way through Office applications—even Outlook. Here’s how.

Get Connected with NAT

Windows 2000 makes it easy for small networks to get their share of the Net. Here’s how to implement it on those systems.

Headhunter Headache

Our columnists share their distaste for some technical staffing companies.

COM+ from Design to Implementation

Need to hit the ground running on technologies like COM+ and SOAP? Start with Microsoft Press' Designing Solutions with COM+ Technologies.

Tightening Telnet Step by Step

Controlling access with IPSec can help keep your vulnerable habitat safe from visitors of all species.

IPSec Rules!

Sometimes you can’t ignore the absolutes. In the case of communication security, just remember: If it doesn’t match, it’s gonna crash.

Group Policy Therapy

Get more work done. In this first of three parts, Harry Brelsford explains the advantages of this jewel of Win2K technology.

The New Windows

These four feature areas seem to be the most compelling of the new single-codebase Windows.

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