09/01/2001
September 2001 - Security Risk Analysis
Inside Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000 security. Plus, blue screen resurrection, network scanners reviewed, and an exclusive interview with Microsoft's training director Anne Marie McSweeney.
In-Depth
Seven network scanners test your security before the crackers do.
Don't let a blue screen stop you. Here's a guide to get your server back online quickly.
Don't let a blue screen stop you. Here's a guide to get your server back online quickly.
The work of risk analysis—evaluating security threats, alerts and all-out panic attacks—is vital to keeping your network safe and sound and you sane.
The work of risk analysis—evaluating security threats, alerts and all-out panic attacks—is vital to keeping your network safe and sound and you sane.
Anne Marie McSweeney, director of certification and skills assessment group at Microsoft, spoke to editors from Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine and CertCities.com during Fusion, the company's partner conference, which took place in Anaheim, California in July 2001.
In an ideal IT world, restoring data to a new server from a dead one wouldn't be a problem: Just rebuild the data and apps from your backup. Welcome to the less-than-perfect world of IT.
What you need to know that you didn't find on Books Online.
A few things you should think about when evaluating vendors for network scanners.
Consider going to the head of the class as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. This briefing tells you how.
A scan can improve the security of your network, but be sure you know the law before you decide to do so.
News
PowerTCP aims for enterprise applications.
ENTmag.com reports that Microsoft Corp. and the user group for SQL Server postponed their annual SQL Server conference scheduled for next week due to the terrorist attacks of Tuesday.
Security, Exchange, security and Windows 2000
migration fill the last two days of the conference
schedule for MCPmag.com reader Rick Johnson.
MCPmag.com reader Rick Johnson gets a good dose of Active Directory technical and certification info during the Thursday sessions.
Our intrepid conference attendee/reporter finds a product amid the marketing hype and gets up to speed on IP and Group Policies at the first official conference day.
MCPmag.com invited a reader to attend the MCP
TechMentor Conference in San Francisco. We offered him free attendance in exchange for a daily report on his conference experiences.
Newsletter lists numbers and titles for upcoming MCSD exams.
As expected, Microsoft Corp. Friday morning announced that its embattled Windows XP operating system is released to manufacturing.
Seven thousand MCPs with NT 3.51 titles no longer certified as of June.
Office XP/Windows XP product activation feature can be thwarted, German company finds.
A Microsoft perennial is about to be decommissioned, as Redmond consigns BackOffice to the software scrap-heap at the end of September.
Microsoft not expected to release next version of Windows until 2003.
If you’re not an engineer, you want to be an expert. That’s what the results of a recent MCP Magazine survey say.
New tool simplifies identification of systems' applied hotfixes and patches.