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    An Ounce of Prevention

    Disaster recovery planning can be worth a lot more than a pound of cure when your network goes down. 10/01/2004

  • News

    Fifth Windows XP 'Lite' Country is India

    Fast on the heels of its announcement that Russia would be the fourth of five countries in a pilot program of a low-cost, limited-functionality version of Windows XP, Microsoft named India as the fifth country. 09/30/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Seeks Stay of European Commission Antitrust Penalty

    Microsoft and the European Commission faced off in open court on Thursday for the first time in their five-year legal battle over antitrust concerns. 09/30/2004

  • News

    Beta 3, RTM Schedules Stand for SQL Server 2005

    After having taken nearly every opportunity so far to push back the release schedule for SQL Server 2005, formerly known as "Yukon," Microsoft is allowing its SQL Server PASS Community Summit to pass without disclosing a new delay. 09/29/2004

  • News

    New Features Coming to SQL Server 2005 in Beta 3

    When Microsoft delivers the Beta 3 version of SQL Server 2005, formerly code-named "Yukon," it will carry a number of feature enhancements that weren't available in the more broadly distributed Beta 2 version. 09/29/2004

  • News

    SQL Reporting Services Expanded Through Add-on Packs

    Microsoft extended the usefulness of its SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services by making available three Report Packs, which are collections of report templates for specific Microsoft applications. 09/29/2004

  • News

    Russia is Fourth Country for Windows XP Starter Edition

    Microsoft this week announced that it's expanding its Windows XP Starter Edition pilot program into Russia. The company said that it hopes to get the software to PC OEMs in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States by early 2005. 09/28/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Expands Mainframe Migration Alliance

    The Mainframe Migration Alliance, Microsoft's coalition of the willing for moving customers from mainframes to Windows servers, got some new members and an official Web site on Tuesday. 09/28/2004

  • Sniffing Out XP SP2 Problems

    On the road again, this time at TechMentor/San Jose, Bill takes time out to contemplate a solution to this admin's XP SP2 problem. 09/28/2004

  • News

    EMC Combines Storage Stack for Exchange

    Over the last few years, EMC has found itself controlling a number of the assets that medium-sized businesses might need to consolidate and manage their Microsoft Exchange-based storage. 09/27/2004

  • Remote Scripting with Windows Script Host

    Conquer your world of servers from home. 09/27/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Releases Best Practices Tool for Exchange

    About a year after releasing Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft rolled out a free, automated best practice tool to help IT get the most out of the e-mail server and its two predecessors -- Exchange 2000 and Exchange 5.5. 09/27/2004

  • News

    Russia is Fourth Country for Windows XP Starter Edition

    Microsoft hopes to get the software to PC OEMs in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States by early 2005. 09/27/2004

  • News

    Exchange 2003 at One Year: a Migration Progress Report

    Microsoft formally launched Exchange Server 2003 about a year ago. The company is holding off until next month to formally announce how much momentum the incremental upgrade to Exchange 2000 Server has built up in that time. Several analyst firms that track messaging closely, however, think they have a pretty good idea how migrations are going. 09/27/2004

  • Securing Remote Data Access

    Smart cards and tokens add layers of authentication protection. 09/27/2004

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, Sept. 24

    From the business wires this week: manage years of e-mail in one networked storage space; security services to stop malware; more. 09/24/2004

  • News

    True Life Tale: Remote Support at All Hours of the Day

    Users who travel expect 24/7 support on the road too. 09/23/2004

  • News

    Oracle, Dell Partner on 10g for Windows

    Dell and Oracle this week began jointly promoting a packaged offering of Oracle's low-end Standard Edition One version of its 10g database on Dell hardware and running Windows Server 2003. Previously Dell and Oracle only offered the packaged deal on the Red Hat Linux operating system. 09/23/2004

  • Tough But Fair

    Would you like IT information with that? 09/23/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Updates Volume Licensing Programs

    Microsoft made some minor changes to its volume licensing programs this week as it launched a new centralized Web site for licensing information. 09/23/2004

  • News

    Exploit Code Circulating for JPEG Flaw

    The seriousness of an already critical flaw in the way a Microsoft component processes JPEG files got ratcheted up a notch this week as exploit code began circulating. 09/23/2004

  • News

    Reed to Retire from Microsoft Board

    William G. Reed Jr. will retire from the Microsoft board of directors after 17 years. The board has decided not to replace Reed, reducing the size of the Microsoft board from 10 members to nine. 09/22/2004

  • News

    Users Enjoying Breather Between Windows XP and Longhorn

    It’s never taken Microsoft longer than three years (give or take a few months) to deliver a new version of its business-class operating system. And when Redmond ships its Longhorn operating environment sometime in 2006, more or less than three years will have elapsed since the software giant delivered Windows Server 2003. 09/22/2004

  • Outlook Migraines ... er, Migrations

    Stop migration sickness in Exchange with a painless script and registry change. 09/22/2004

  • News

    Fix Available for Windows XP SP2 Problem

    Microsoft has issued a formal fix for a problem in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that resulted in error messages for programs that attempt to use loopback addresses other than 127.0.0.1. 09/22/2004

  • News

    Government Source Code Review Program Expanded to Office

    Microsoft expanded its controversial Government Security Program to allow governments that Microsoft trusts to review the source code of Microsoft Office. 09/21/2004

  • News

    Symantec to Buy Security Firm @stake

    Security giant Symantec is buying digital security company @stake for an undisclosed sum in a deal that is expected to close in October. 09/21/2004

  • News

    Visual Studio 2005 Gets New Edition

    Microsoft this month continued the shuffle of its Visual Studio developer suite packages prior to their planned release next year. 09/21/2004

  • Neither Rain Nor Snow Nor Security Popups

    A baffled administrator finds a solution in the Office Resource Kit for an Outlook application accessing error. Plus: XP SP2 installation stories from the trenches. 09/21/2004

  • Infosec's Feminine Side

    Gathering of female execs sets standard for meetings and plain ol' manners. 09/20/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Developing Backup and Recovery Server

    Microsoft on Monday unveiled backup and recovery software for Windows file servers that will provide continuous backup of incremental changes to files and rapid recovery from disk-based storage. 09/20/2004

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, September 17

    From the business wires this week: an IT information and community portal opens, and an enterprise recovery manager and SSL VPN appliance for remote access to Citrix apps are released. 09/17/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Board Declares Dividend

    The Microsoft Board of Directors on Wednesday declared a regular quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share that will be payable Dec. 2. 09/16/2004

  • News

    Microsoft and Sendo Settle Lawsuits

    Microsoft and Sendo reached a settlement in the lawsuit and countersuit that arose after the companies' mobile phone partnership fell apart in late 2002. 09/16/2004

  • News

    Help Desk, Desktop Support Certs Mind-Meld

    Microsoft joins two other certification groups in collaborating efforts to promote desktop technician and tech support certifications. 09/16/2004

  • Downloading Frenzy

    BITS lets you take back your CPU when downloading large software and program files. 09/15/2004

  • News

    Kit to Help Integrate Project Server with SAP

    Microsoft planned to release a kit on Wednesday to help systems integrators build hooks from SAP implementations into Microsoft's Office Project Server 2003. 09/15/2004

  • News

    SP1 Released for Systems Management Server 2003

    Microsoft posted the first service pack for Systems Management Server 2003. While the company characterizes the service pack as a "relatively small update" to SMS 2003, which came out in November, SP1 is important to Microsoft's larger management roadmap. 09/15/2004

  • News

    Virtual Server Evaluation Edition Available

    Microsoft this week released a 180-day evaluation edition of Virtual Server 2005, its first-generation product for running several virtualized server environments on one physical machine. General availability of Virtual Server 2005 is set for mid-October. 09/14/2004

  • Auto-Babble

    Quick solution that allows a public folder to automatically reply to incoming e-mail. 09/14/2004

  • News

    Problem with the Way Microsoft Opens JPEG Files Affects Dozens of Products

    A remote attacker could take complete control over computers running many versions of Microsoft software by inserting malicious code in a JPEG image that executes through an unchecked buffer when the image is processed, Microsoft acknowledged on Tuesday. 09/14/2004

  • News

    What's Cheaper SQL Server or Oracle? Tricky Question, Grasshopper

    Oracle, the one-time Cadillac dealer of database vendors, is trying to out-cheap competitors, including SMB and small enterprise kingpin Microsoft. 09/13/2004

  • Power Hungry

    Be careful who you give Power User privelages to or you may face abuse from within. 09/13/2004

  • News

    Yukon Will Open New Frontier for Third-Party SQL Server Market

    Members of Microsoft’s network of business partner vendors see the gold running in Yukon, and are ready to spring into action with enhanced solutions. 09/13/2004

  • News

    IT Weekly Roundup, September 10

    From the business wires this week: Certiport in China, e-mail spam filters, an enterprise reporting solution and a software/intellectual property protection and licensing key to fight piracy. 09/10/2004

  • News

    Sybari Updates E-mail Security Lineup

    Sybari Software this week updated its product line for securing e-mail through anti-virus, anti-spam and content-filtering products. 09/09/2004

  • News

    IBM 'Stinger' Database Coming in Mid-September

    IBM's next version of the DB2 Universal Database, code-named "Stinger," will be generally available on Sept. 17, the company said Thursday. 09/09/2004

  • News

    Celestix Unveils ISA 2004-based Appliances

    Celestix Networks, one of several Microsoft partners building firewall appliances based on Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004, began shipping its systems this week. 09/09/2004

  • News

    Intel Lays Out Server Platform Roadmap at IDF

    Intel used its annual developer forum this week to lay out a server platform roadmap that has its Xeon and Itanium server processor lines running on a common platform architecture sometime after 2006. 09/09/2004

  • News

    SP1 Released for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

    Microsoft this month released a Service Pack 1 for its SharePoint technologies to fix bugs and add support for new search functionality, larger file sizes and additional languages. 09/09/2004

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