New exams slated for release this year to feature many new testing innovations and improved security.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/05/2003
DataDirect''s Connect for .NET allows you to programmatically access the database entirely within the .NET Framework, to simplify database access and boost performance.
How much can you handle to get secure?
For many reasons, enterprise application security is an inefficient and expensive model. Obviously there''s no such thing as a completely secure application, but enterprises must target an acceptable level of risk.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2003
Turn Outlook for Web Access into an offline mail reader.
- By Brian Marranzini
- 08/01/2003
Patch management is no longer a luxury to have a secure network—it’s a necessity. We test six solutions to the problem of knowing whether or not your servers and desktops are up to date.
- By David W. Tschanz
- 08/01/2003
Ecora Patch Manager 2.0 enables you to keep critical patches for Microsoft products up to date, now and into the future.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 08/01/2003
Configuring permissions with ESRA 2.0.
- By Joe Crawford
- 08/01/2003
Ponder the security challenges posed by Web services, how to address them with security architecture, and what security architecture can offer going forward when XML traverses firewalls.
- By Mark O'Neill
- 08/01/2003
Windows Server 2003 installs fewer services by default, and installs others in a disabled state. Here’s a guide to what they do, and whether you might need them or not.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 08/01/2003
Four forests or one? Four domains or one? The best AD design strives for simple and secure administration.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/29/2003
Microsoft adds new security exam to MCSA/MCSE on Windows 2003 tracks, but keeps mum on details.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/23/2003
Use Winscl to find out which computers your users are logged onto.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/08/2003
Spamming the Globe
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 07/01/2003
Anthony wanted to run Windows DNS on his company’s BIND network. It worked—until the intern came along.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/01/2003
Dealing with e-mail worms and viruses is becoming a bigger part of every administrator’s job. Learn from one of the industry’s foremost experts how worms enter your network in the first place and compromise your systems.
- By Roger A. Grimes
- 07/01/2003
Straight talk on meshing your enterprise e-mail systems.
- By Bill Heldman
- 07/01/2003
Securely bringing a Windows file server on the network may not sound difficult. But when it's running Windows Server 2003, there's a lot you need to know to do it right.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 07/01/2003
Here are the latest service packs from Microsoft as of June
28, 2003:
- By Kristen McCarthy
- 06/27/2003
The road behind has no signposts for what's to come.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/24/2003