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Certification Crossroads

Certifications are an important part of most IT professionals’ careers. Now, with more offerings than ever, which ones can help you most?

Amazingly Easy and Powerful Screen Captures

Print Screen Works is a “must have” utility.

Hollow Man

Knowing how and when to use null sessions, those invisible connections, can get you out of—or into—trouble.

Windows 2000 Defragmentation Tools: Disk Defragmenter

Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.

Windows 2000 Defragmentation Tools: Defrag Commander Personal Edition

Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.

How Fast Can You Document Your Environment?

Ecora Configuration Reporter saves you time and grunt work.

10 Golden Security Rules

The ISO17799 is a group of policies that would be well worth your time to get to know.

What’s It Worth?

This month, Greg and Steve address the value and importance of certification vs. good, old-fashioned experience.

An Ounce of Prevention

When setting up a network, forgetting the concepts of scalability and centralized management can have costly consequences down the road.

Microsoft Provides an MMC Reference

Poorly organized but essential anyhow.

Gates: Windows XP Off to a Fast Start

Windows XP started out of the gate with a bang, selling more than 7 million copies in the first two weeks of its release, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in November.

The Accidental MCSE

Are you an NT 4.0 MCSE who has passed most, but not all, of the seven required exams for your Windows 2000 MCSE? If so, you may have achieved your Win2K certification without even knowing it.

Windows XP Playbook

If XP’s in your future—and the minute you buy new desktop systems, it probably will be—use these strategies to get the most out of Microsoft’s newest OS.

Scripting Serendipity

Finding out that .WSF scripts—based on XML—allow you to declare just about anything can be a flexible timesaver.

Monotheism DotNET

A somewhat philosophical, somewhat technical introduction to Microsoft .NET.

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