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  • Get into Group Policy

    GPAnywhere gives you more flexibility to manage Group Policy, even on older or remote machines, with or without Active Directory. 02/01/2005

  • All Praise Bill

    Bill Gates' worthy contributions, eBay's pass on Passport and what the announcement of the Mac mini might mean for Microsoft. 02/01/2005

  • News

    Itanium Feels the Squeeze

    Moves by HP and Microsoft force the 64-bit chip further into a high-end niche. 02/01/2005

  • News

    Certification: It's Not Just for Admins Anymore

    Lieberman Software brings in an MCT to boost the tech knowledge of its sales force. 02/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    SP2: More Ammo for the Security Battle

    Rollout pain aside, users laud the long overdue enhancements that SP2 brings to IE, along with new GPOs, RPC lockdown and more. 02/01/2005

  • In-Depth

    Real-World GPMC Troubleshooting

    The Group Policy Management Console can be a powerful troubleshooting too—if you know how to use it. 02/01/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 28

    From the business wires this week: a policy compliance solution, Group Policy security and admin tools, and a network protocols handbook. 01/28/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Releases Class Server 4.0

    Latest version of educational portal solution is cool for school. 01/28/2005

  • News

    No Appeal on EU Ruling Against Stay

    Microsoft's broad appeal of European Commission antitrust measures will continue, but the company has given up on an effort to put off the remedies until all appeals are exhausted a few years from now. 01/27/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Expands Anti-Piracy Program

    Microsoft this week unveiled its plans to use the technology levers at its disposal to cut off downloads and other benefits for users of counterfeit software. 01/27/2005

  • News

    Windows, SBS OEMs Get Competency Exam

    Competency exam for Microsoft partners tasked with building Windows-based systems officially debuts Wednesday. 01/27/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Earnings Hit $3.46 Billion in Q2

    Microsoft reported net income of $3.46 billion on revenues of $10.82 billion for the quarter that ended Dec. 31. Company officials attributed the record revenues to 18 percent growth in the Server and Tools business and the first profitable quarter for Microsoft's Home and Entertainment business. 01/27/2005

  • News

    ActiveBatch 5 Helps with Real-time Batch Processing

    Advanced Systems Concepts is shipping ActiveBatch version 5, an upgrade to its enterprise job scheduling and management product that the company says aims to address customers’ emerging need for near real-time batch processing. 01/27/2005

  • News

    Plug-in Enables Hot Backup of SQL Data

    Arkeia is shipping a plug-in for hot backup of Microsoft SQL Server databases. 01/27/2005

  • News

    AutoProf Changes Name to DesktopStandard Corp.

    Launches new "least privilege" security software in its core line of PolicyMaker products, which provide Group Policy extensions. 01/27/2005

  • News

    BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 1 Posted

    Microsoft posted the first service pack for BizTalk Server 2004 late Wednesday. 01/27/2005

  • News

    IBM Ships Next Notes/Domino Beta, Readies Collaboration Update

    Following a November announcement expanding the software, service and solution options for its collaborative services initiative, IBM began delivering on that vision at Lotusphere 2005 in Orlando this week. 01/26/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Names New MVPs for 2005

    Eleventh year of Microsoft MVP program recognizes professionals in eight more countries. Also: Microsoft Office Outlook Live. 01/21/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 21

    From the business wires this week: a solution to launch applications remotely but securely, a remote PC management suite, and more. 01/21/2005

  • News

    Exchange Joins Microsoft's Billion-Dollar Club

    Microsoft Exchange Server crossed the $1 billion revenue threshold in fiscal 2004, joining Microsoft's enviable stable of products that the software company can rely on for more than a billion dollars in revenues each year. 01/20/2005

  • News

    New BizTalk Competency Exam Debuts

    Exam released at private sales partner summit in Seattle. 01/20/2005

  • News

    SAP-Citrix Team on SMB Bundle

    SAP and Citrix announced this week they have agreed to co-market a software bundle that leverages both companies’ product strengths to provide comprehensive, easy to deploy, integrated applications for small and mid-sized businesses. 01/20/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Readying Exchange Tools and Service Pack for 2005

    The centerpiece of Microsoft's 2005 Exchange Server delivery schedule, Exchange Edge Services 2005, is officially off the roadmap, but Microsoft this week provided a laundry list of new deliverables this year for the messaging server's customers. 01/20/2005

  • News

    How Suite It Is -- Veritas Ships Updated Backup Bundle

    Veritas Software, which last month wowed the investment world by announcing it is being acquired by Symantec in what may turn out to be the largest software deal in history, is shipping the latest version of its flagship backup and restore product. 01/19/2005

  • News

    New MOM Management Pack for Password Change Notification

    Microsoft this month introduced a new Microsoft Operations Manager Management Pack for the Microsoft Password Change Notification Service. 01/19/2005

  • News

    "Exchange 12" Directions Revealed

    For the next version of Exchange Server, code-named "Exchange 12," Microsoft is investing in unified messaging, improved search and 64-bit support among other things, company officials said during a press tour on Wednesday. 01/19/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Updates BizTalk Server Roadmap

    With three versions of BizTalk Server out the door, Microsoft recently began discussing versions four and five of the business integration server software. 01/19/2005

  • News

    HP Refreshes Integrity Server Line

    HP announced this week it has passed the $1 billion mark in sales of business solutions based on its Integrity servers during fiscal 2004, and tossed in the immediate availability of the newest Itanium 2 processors in its server line to boot. 01/19/2005

  • News

    Study: 651 Million E-mail Users Worldwide

    Worldwide e-mail usage boomed in 2004, according to a new study by the Radicati Group. 01/18/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Navision Gets New Leader

    Microsoft hired a former IT consultant and IBM executive to run the Navision segment of Microsoft Business Solutions. 01/18/2005

  • News

    IDC: E-mail Archiving Coming to a Data Center Near You

    As requirements demanding companies be able to find, retrieve and protect e-mail and other electronic records become coded into our legal and regulatory institutions, the market for e-mail archiving applications is exploding. 01/18/2005

  • News

    CompTIA Lets IT Academy Students Take A+ Exams for $99

    Promotion is extension of program that's been available to Cisco Academy students. 01/17/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 14

    From the business wires this week: security tool for finding info holes on Web sites, hosted messaging and collaboration solution and a blazingly fast SATA hard drive. 01/14/2005

  • News

    BMC Buys French ID Management Firm

    BMC Software announced it is buying French identity management software developer Calendra for $33 million. 01/13/2005

  • News

    VMware Plays an ACE in the Virtual PC Game

    VMware is shipping ACE, a PC virtualization product designed to protect corporate data and other electronic assets even when the work is being done offsite by outsiders. 01/13/2005

  • News

    LANDesk Debuts New and Updated Management Tools

    Intel spin-off LANDesk announced this week that it is shipping Server Manager 8.5, which provides significant enhancements to the seven-year-old server management tool. 01/12/2005

  • News

    Microsoft to Expand Redmond Headquarters

    Microsoft filed a development agreement this week with the city of Redmond, Wash., committing to expanding its corporate headquarters there. 01/12/2005

  • News

    Microsoft CFO Leaving

    Longtime Microsoft executive John Connors is leaving the company to join a venture capital firm. 01/12/2005

  • News

    Patches Provided for Windows NT 4 Despite End of Support

    Operating in the gray area between support and non-support, Microsoft chose to freely distribute the one new security bulletin that affected Windows NT Server 4.0 on Tuesday, 11 days after official support of the operating system expired. 01/11/2005

  • News

    Malicious Software Removal Tool Makes Debut

    Microsoft on Tuesday provided the first version of the malicious software removal tool that it first promised last week. 01/11/2005

  • News

    Bot the Likely Culprit for WINS Flaw Activity

    There was a flurry of discussion regarding a possible WINS worm due to a spike in WINS port 42 traffic. 01/11/2005

  • News

    Patch Tuesday: Three Security Bulletins, Two Critical

    Microsoft released three security bulletins for Windows on Tuesday, its monthly date for patching security problems. Two of the security bulletins involve critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a user's system over the Internet. The patches are especially important because both critical vulnerabilities had already been publicly disclosed. 01/11/2005

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 7

    From the business wires this week: Microsoft's antispyware, Xbox 2, management solutions, developer tools and a portable magneto-optical drive. 01/07/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Posts Beta of AntiSpyware Tool

    Microsoft offered a widespread beta of a new anti-spyware tool for Windows users on Thursday. The availability of the software marked an extremely quick rebranding and rerelease of the anti-spyware technology Microsoft purchased last month from Giant Company Software. 01/06/2005

  • News

    ThinPrint Refocuses Desktop Printing on Microsoft RDP

    ThinPrint is shipping its .print Remote Desktop Printing Engine for Microsoft Terminal Services 2003. The product is the newest in its line of printing solutions for Windows terminal services users. 01/06/2005

  • News

    When (If Ever) Is SA Right?

    Call for Comments: Redmond wants to know what value you place on Software Assurance. 01/06/2005

  • News

    Three Windows Security Bulletins Coming Jan. 11

    Microsoft will post three security bulletins for flaws in Windows next Tuesday. At least one of the bulletins will cover a critical flaw. 01/06/2005

  • News

    Microsoft Drops Itanium Support for Workstation, Standard Server

    Microsoft will no longer support Intel's high-end Itanium 2 processor in workstation and low-end server operating systems. 01/05/2005

  • News

    VMware Tests Major Update to Virtual Workstation Package

    Over the holidays, VMware began beta testing Workstation 5, the latest update to the company’s five-year-old desktop virtualization platform. 01/05/2005

  • News

    Most Popular Stories of 2004

    It's always interesting to look back and see which stories attracted the most attention from you over the last year in terms of clicks. 01/05/2005

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