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Review: AQTest

Software testing made easy and inexpensive.

Review: TextPipe Pro

A snazzy tool for making wholesale textual changes to a group of files.

Review: Data On The Run

Need Pocket Access? Here's an interim solution.

Total Access Statistics

Crunch numbers like a statistics expert.

What's in Your IIS logs?

WebTrends can deliver information that you didn't even know you were collecting.

Web Site Change Management

Keeping track of changes to Web sites can be of a great importance, a good reason to put SiteRecorder to work for you.

How Much is Too Much?

WCAT can answer that question.

Reducing TCO with Win2K

A great reference for the experienced admin—a must read for the new Windows 2000 admin.

Foil those Hackers!

A valuable reference with a bit too much filler.

Securing Remote Management with WMI

Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.

Keep an Eye on Your Web Site in Real Time

IISTracer helps spot questionable activity fast.

Family Inheritance

Knowing how NTFS passes down file access attributes would have helped one systems administrator avoid exile to the basement. It could do the same for you.

Microsoft Certification Price Jumps

U.S. pricing for Microsoft exams through Prometric and VUE testing centers has increased 25 percent, to $125.

Serving Up the Enterprise

Microsoft’s been releasing new server products at a dizzying rate for the past year. Confused by all the choices? Let us add some clarity to your search.

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