Migrating from Novell Directory Services to Active Directory is hard work. This article explains how to assess your current situation, formulate an action plan and specify features for third-party help.
- By Jeff Bennion
- 11/01/2002
Evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, current network interface cards offer increased speed, better CPU utilization and specialized functionality.
- By Douglas Mechaber
- 11/01/2002
Release of Windows .NET Server is getting close. Should your company consider moving? Windows Insider Bill Boswell makes a case for the upgrade to Microsoft’s newest operating system.
- By Bill Boswell
- 11/01/2002
.NET sports features that'll streamline lower-level admin tasks.
- By Bill Boswell
- 11/01/2002
Licensing confusion, and more salary survey feedback.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 11/01/2002
The root of your problems may lie in your event logs.
- By James D. Pollock
- 10/01/2002
For programmers, developers of component, application using Microsoft technology.
It took three separate attempts to finally upgrade my company to Exchange 2000—this after doing the upgrade in a lab environment and upgrading a pilot box with the IT department on it...
- By Cynthia Balusek
- 10/01/2002
It’s important to remember that the answer’s not always in a book or taught in a class, as we found out when investigating a disrupted wireless link.
- By Justin L. Melot
- 10/01/2002
You can do a lot with printers in Windows 2000. All it takes is a little sleight of hand.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 10/01/2002
Further investigation of a hard drive failure revealed one tiny but important tip that now lets one company's e-mail server run problem-free.
- By Christopher M. Roscoe
- 10/01/2002
There’s a method to the madness of Active Directory replication, but many of the concepts can be tough to decipher...
- By Andrew Lindley
- 10/01/2002
Much of the knowledge IT professionals gain won't be found in a book or taught in a class...
With today’s new features and improved defenses, you no longer have to choose between convenience and security when deploying an enterprise-level wireless network.
IT people move on; so, who's doing backups?
- By Jeremy Dillinger
- 10/01/2002
Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET -- here's half a dozen new ways to build wicked-fast code.
- By Francesco Balena
- 09/01/2002
Intrusion detection systems are becoming increasingly important in network security. Here’s a primer on what they do and how they work—and an evaluation of four popular sentries.
- By Greg Saoutine et al.
- 09/01/2002
Hacks are a fact in a connected world. After discovering and expelling the intruders, you have to clean up their messes.
Going solo on certification is tough. Here's how one group achieved MCSE success as a team.
- By Sri Seshadri
- 08/01/2002
Moving from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 is a complex task. This migration took many unexpected twists, turns and hours.