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  • Get to Know Your Network

    How well do you know your network? NetSupport DNA will give you the complete picture. 08/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    How NOT to Architect Active Directory

    Learn how to do Active Directory design right from these real-world case studies of those who have done it wrong. 08/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Make Room for Linux Apps

    As Linux applications grow in popularity, Windows admins will need to start incorporating them into their networks. Here are five ways to do that. 08/01/2005

  • Clean up Those Dirty Connections

    A script that uses Devcon.exe to disable dirty connections when the computer is connected to the corporate (private) network, compliments of a Mr. Script reader. 08/01/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, July 29

    From the business wires this week: tools for tracking Active Directory and domain controller activities and system log data; a portable wireless router; and a tool for comparing and syncing folders. 07/29/2005

  • News

    Spending Big Bucks for NT Patches? Shavlik Can Help You Scan

    Shavlik Technologies is going public with a very high-end patch management offering for the most select of Windows customers -- those who have already shelled out a reputed $200,000 or more to Microsoft for a Custom Support Agreement for Windows NT 4.0. 07/28/2005

  • News

    Windows Vista Beta Begins

    Right on schedule, Microsoft released the first beta test version of the newly-renamed Windows Vista on Wednesday. Also sent Longhorn Server beta to separate group of testers. 07/28/2005

  • News

    Windows XP SP2 Penetration Hits 60 Percent

    The percentage of the Windows XP installed base protected by the firewall, Automatic Updates, virus subscription warnings, rewritten code and other baseline security measures in Service Pack 2 keeps inching up. 07/28/2005

  • News

    Shavlik Adding Anti-Spyware to Portfolio

    Patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies is branching out into enterprise anti-spyware software as a first step toward a broader enterprise security product suite. 07/27/2005

  • News

    Oracle Backs Off Slightly on Multi-Core Pricing

    After staking out a firm position that processor cores should be counted and paid for as full processors under its software licensing, database and business applications giant Oracle Corp. has backed down slightly. 07/27/2005

  • News

    Windows Genuine Advantage Kicks in for Real

    Microsoft has gone live with Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0, and has made it mandatory for all users wanting to use its popular "Update" sites. 07/27/2005

  • News

    EMC Debuts Petabyte-Sized Storage Array

    EMC will begin shipping in September what it claims is the largest, fastest and most scalable high-end storage array in the world. 07/26/2005

  • News

    Intel Antes Up $3B for New Wafer Fab

    Bigger wafers and smaller line widths is what chip making has always been about, and today is no different. Intel announced this week it will build a new wafer fabrication facility – called a “fab” -- in Chandler, Arizona that will make 300mm silicon wafers covered with chips with line widths of just 45 nanometers. 07/26/2005

  • News

    Partner Watch, July 26

    Junction Solutions joins Microsoft in delivering Axapta solutions. 07/26/2005

  • News

    Manakoa Unveils Partner Program, Compliance Tools

    If you’ve been searching for an effective way to get your foot in the door at client sites, Robert Williams thinks he may have just the ticket: regulatory compliance. 07/26/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, July 22

    From the business wires this week: performance-improving solutions for SQL Server and Windows Server environments, a tool for managing remote users and a program for customizing your Windows desktop. 07/22/2005

  • News

    NetIQ to Lay Off 150

    Systems and security management software company NetIQ Corp. will lay off 150 people, or about 15 percent of its workforce over the next 12 months and will outsource some development to India as the company realigns to regain profitability. 07/22/2005

  • News

    Certiport Names U.S. Champions in Global Microsoft Office Competition

    More than 25,000 students in 41 countries competed to see just who's best at Word and Excel. 07/22/2005

  • News

    Longhorn Renamed Windows Vista

    Microsoft officially named the next version of its Windows operating system "Windows Vista" in a naming ceremony streamed via Windows Media Player Friday. 07/22/2005

  • News

    Citrix Posts Hotfixes for Problem Caused by Windows 2000 Update Rollup

    Citrix posted hotfixes for two of its products that were crashing after users installed Microsoft Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4. 07/21/2005

  • News

    Thank You, Sysadmin Guy!

    Next Friday marks the sixth annual System Administration Day. 07/21/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Names Citrix Global ISV Partner of the Year

    Company known for remote computer access tools recognized for ability to deliver Microsoft solutions to enterprises, mid-market companies. 07/21/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Revenue Train Rolled Along in Fiscal 2005

    Microsoft posted strong revenue and profit growth in the quarter and fiscal year that ended June 30 as PC and server growth fueled software sales, but growth remained soft in the important Information Worker segment that includes Microsoft Office. 07/21/2005

  • News

    Finjan Gets Investment from Microsoft

    Finjan Software, a security firm involved in a recent public spat with Microsoft over publicly discussing the software giant's security flaws, has landed a minority investment and patent deal from Microsoft. 07/21/2005

  • News

    PC Growth Puts Pressure on Microsoft to Shine in Annual Report

    Microsoft faces high expectations when it reports financial results for the year later Thursday because the company's key external variable -- worldwide PC sales -- are way up. 07/21/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Aims to Acquire FrontBridge Technologies

    Microsoft agreed to terms to acquire FrontBridge Technologies, a provider of hosted e-mail security, compliance and archiving services. Assuming regulatory approval, Microsoft hopes to sell the FrontBridge services as a complement to its Exchange messaging server in the near term and later integrate its on-premise Exchange server with the hosted technologies. 07/20/2005

  • News

    Windows AntiSpyware Beta Updated

    Microsoft this week delivered a new version of the Windows AntiSpyware beta. 07/20/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Sues to Stop Kai-Fu Lee from Joining Google

    Lawsuits claiming ex-employees violated so-called “non-compete” clauses in their work contracts by leaving one company to go to a competitor are nothing new. Microsoft has been involved in its fair share of them in the past, both for cherry picking other companies’ employees as well as to try to stop defections from its own ranks. 07/20/2005

  • News

    Two New Itanium 2s Feature Faster Front-Side Bus

    Intel is shipping a pair of new Itanium 2 processors that aim to boost the chips’ performance in compute intensive applications by increasing bus transfer speeds. 07/19/2005

  • News

    Partner Watch, July 19

    Visionpace announces a new style of classroom/on-site training that lets students apply their knowledge in real-world situations. 07/19/2005

  • News

    DoS Flaw Affects Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003

    Microsoft is working to fix a publicly disclosed flaw in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services that can lead to a denial of service attack against certain Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 systems. 07/19/2005

  • News

    HP to Cut 14,500 Jobs

    HP on Tuesday announced it is cutting 14,500 jobs worldwide -- about 10 percent of its total workforce -- in an ongoing effort to bolster the computer and printer firm’s bottom line. 07/19/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Licenses Voice Technology

    Microsoft has purchased an OEM license to use voice-processing software from Global IP Sound, a developer of voice codecs. 07/18/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Updates Auto Development Platform to 5.0

    Last week at the Automotive Conference 2005 in Yokahama, Japan, Microsoft announced the release of a new version of its customizable software platform Windows Automotive 5.0. 07/18/2005

  • Microsoft Open Licensing Tips

    If you have less than 250 PCs, you need to read this. 07/18/2005

  • News

    Neverfail Releases Virtual Environment for Real-Time Demos of Product Line

    At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference earlier this month, Austin, Texas-based Neverfail Group announced the introduction of a virtual environment that allows Neverfail partners to present live, on-demand demonstrations of the company’s product line to potential customers via the Internet. 07/18/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, July 15

    From the business wires this week: authentication solutions, search appliances, an enterprise-level file exchange program and a plug-in for encrypting backed-up data. 07/15/2005

  • News

    RES Brings Wisdom to Windows Change Management

    Real Enterprise Solutions announced Thursday that it is shipping Wisdom, a new integrated change and configuration management tool for Windows. 07/14/2005

  • News

    Softricity Updates SoftGrid – Delays Zero Touch

    Softricity is shipping version 3.2 of its SoftGrid Windows application virtualization package. 07/14/2005

  • News

    SonaSafe Exchange Standby Solution Ships

    SonaSoft began shipping its SonaSafe Exchange Standby Solution, an integrated disk-to-disk backup and recovery and disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange Server. 07/14/2005

  • In-Depth

    Manage and Administer Groups in Active Directory: Part Two

    In part two of a series, find out how you can simplify the management of organizational changes in Active Directory with minimal effort. 07/13/2005

  • News

    TCP Chimney Dispute Cleaned Up

    Microsoft settled its legal dispute with Alacritech over the TCP Chimney networking technology for offloading network protocol processing, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal clears the way for Microsoft to deliver early next year the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003, an out-of-band feature pack that had been in legal limbo. 07/13/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Releases Three Critical Security Bulletins

    Microsoft issued three critical security patches on its July patching day Tuesday, including the fix for a dangerous problem in the JVIEW Profiler for which Microsoft issued a kill bit last week. 07/12/2005

  • News

    New Partner Resource Addresses Vertical Theme

    Microsoft could've substituted "Vertical" for the official theme of its Worldwide Partner Conference and it might've been more appropriate than the actual theme, "Velocity." 07/12/2005

  • News

    Ballmer Rallies the Partner Troops

    It was only about 9:30 a.m, but Steve Ballmer showed all the energy of a linebacker ready to do battle as he came bounding onto the stage for his keynote address at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference on Sunday. 07/12/2005

  • News

    Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 to Follow General R2 Release

    An R2 version of Windows Small Business Server 2003 will follow the R2 release of the other editions of Windows Server 2003 by 60 to 90 days, Microsoft officials said at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference. 07/12/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Names Citrix, HP 2005 Partners of the Year

    More than 45 companies took laurels in Microsoft's Partner of the Year awards, held this weekend at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Minneapolis, Minn. 07/12/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Adds Partner Competencies, Improves Partnering Tools

    Additional competencies include those for solution providers mobility experts; partnering tools improvements include vastly streamlined registration process. 07/12/2005

  • News

    Partner Watch, July 12

    Fullscope debuts software solutions for process manufacturers, and seven companies join or move up in the Microsoft Partner ranks. 07/12/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Streamlines Open Value Licensing, Expands Reach

    Last week at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Minneapolis, Minn., Microsoft unveiled a streamlined Open Value licensing structure for small and mid-size companies. 07/11/2005

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