The Next Wave of Integration

Microsoft’s Services for Unix ties two OS combatants together. 06/01/2004

Old NT Guys

Where do we go from here? 06/01/2004

Enhance UI Performance in WinForms

You can improve your UI in several ways, using the .NET Framework's built-in multithreading and asynchronous execution mechanisms. 06/01/2004

70-330 and 70-340: Sweating over Security

These two new exams for developers really put your secure coding expertise to the challenge. 06/01/2004

Manipulate Text With Regular Expressions

Learn whether a given date is greater than or equal to a predefined date and how to add to the Expression Editor dialog box's list of Standard Expressions. 06/01/2004

Dfs vs. FRS

Admin wants to maintain snappy performance with user profiles and home folders with a Windows 2003 network upgrade. 06/01/2004

Teach Your Apps to Trust

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the basis for creating applications that trust each other to perform their tasks. 06/01/2004

Directing Traffic

This script can be altered to read/write any kind of Registry entry. 06/01/2004

A Solid Baseline; PowerPoint Melvinisms; Renewal Plan; more

Build Data-Driven Client Validation

Here's a design for creating data-driven validation rules for distributed apps. It lets you distribute the rules from to clients without modifying client-side application code. 06/01/2004

SBS 2003: Your Small Business Operating System

As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 might interest those small and medium businesses. 06/01/2004

Add VROOM with VLANs

Virtual LANs are a good way to speed up your network by grouping users and computers into logical, rather than physical, units. Here’s how they work. 06/01/2004

Backing Up Small Business Server

As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 also comes with a Backup Configuration Wizard. Here are two add-on products that offer help. 06/01/2004

Books: Write Customized .NET Add-Ins

Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NET helps you write an add-in customized to your needs. Les Smith walks you through the wizard and shows you how to develop your UI, trap IDE events, manipulate controls, and migrate your VB6 add-ins to the new platform. 06/01/2004

Output Your Trace Info

Output your trace information to new targets, including SQL Server and XML—and do it without parsing. 06/01/2004

Lock Down Your Handheld Devices

As the capabilities of handheld devices have grown, so have the threats. 06/01/2004

The Pinocchio Factor

How Microsoft is like the fairy tale. 06/01/2004

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine to Become REDMOND Magazine

Renamed publication adds veteran IT journalists to staff. 06/01/2004

Group Policy DOs and DON’Ts

Group policy can make your life as an administrator blissful or stressful. Learn from one expert’s experiences what works with group policies, and what doesn’t. 06/01/2004

Add Rich UI Capabilities

Infragistics' NetAdvantage 2004 is a suite of high-performing and feature-laden UI components for developing Windows, Tablet PC, and ASP.NET applications. 06/01/2004

Trend: Companies Bundling Products

Companies like Desaware are enticing consumers by bundling their best sellers for a fraction of the cost of the products combined. And they're giving away the source code to boot. 06/01/2004

Boot-Time Security

Boot-up is a dangerous time for your systems, a time before security policies to protect them may be active. Avoid danger with persistent policies. 06/01/2004

All That JAAS

JAAS is based on the Pluggable Authentication Modules model and provides authentication and authorization services. Check out its many security benefits for Java applications. 06/01/2004

Microsoft Holds Line on ISA Server 2004 Price

SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft didn't manage to get Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 out the door in time for its TechEd conference here, but the company did go ahead and unveil pricing for its second-generation firewall, VPN and Web caching server. 05/27/2004

SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Gets Close

SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft began taking sign ups for participation in the SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 program this week at its Microsoft TechEd show here as the long-awaited test version of the product gets close to availability. 05/27/2004

Microsoft Details Features of 'R2'

SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft used its TechEd conference to lay out some of the features planned for the next version of Windows Server 2003, code-named "R2." 05/27/2004

Defending Against Layer 8

Remember the 8th layer of the OSI networking stack: humans. System administrators must educate themselves and their users about social engineering practices to prevent attacks. 05/27/2004

Database Platforms: Windows Grows, Linux Grows Faster

Microsoft consolidated its leading share of the Windows database market, but growth of Windows as a database platform trails growth of Linux as a database platform both in raw dollars and in percentage terms, according to new Gartner research for 2003. 05/27/2004

Microsoft Previews Tool for Connecting Apps to Office with Web Services

Microsoft is previewing Web services features that should allow developers to more easily integrate their applications with Office. 05/26/2004

Business Objects Reaches Out to Office

At Microsoft’s TechEd user conference this week, Business Objects SA unveiled an add-on for its Crystal Enterprise reporting environment which boasts tighter integration with the Office productivity suite. 05/26/2004

Diagnosing Exchange Symptoms

KerbTray helped this reader figure out what was making his Exchange server sick. 05/25/2004

Microsoft Moves to 10-Year Lifecycle for Product Support

Decision extends support of business software by at least three years. 05/25/2004

Beyond the Firewall

Network security is more important than ever. But network protection must move beyond the firewall. What new tools are on the horizon to help you with your combat strategy? 05/25/2004

Dell, EMC, HP Ship Windows-based NAS Devices

Microsoft is using its TechEd 2004 conference this week to trumpet releases of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from tier-one hardware vendors featuring its OEM-only Windows Storage Server 2003 with a new Exchange Server 2003 feature pack. 05/25/2004

Ballmer Unveils Visual Studio 2005 Team System

SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft will deliver products around Visual Studio next year designed to tie the roles of developers and IT administrators more closely together to make the writing, deploying and maintaining of applications a more efficient and secure process. 05/24/2004

Microsoft Licensing Expanded for Disaster Recovery, Online Services

Microsoft previewed two benefits coming next month to its volume licensing programs. 05/20/2004

Microsoft MCP Private Web Site Newly Designed

Revamped secure area of Web site contains updated benefits. 05/20/2004

AMD Expands Opteron Processor Family

AMD broadened its family of Opteron processors this week with the addition of three models, including one version for four-processor systems. 05/20/2004

Office 2004 for Mac Hits the Street

Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. 05/19/2004

Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Vendor

Security giant Symantec Corp. on Wednesday said it will buy Brightmail, a six-year-old anti-spam company, for $370 million in a cash deal expected to close by early July. 05/19/2004

Quest Reveals Which Products Survive Aelita Acquisition

Quest Software this week unveiled the inevitable aftermath of its acquisition of Aelita Software -- which products from the two companies' similar portfolios of Windows software have a future and which didn't make the cut. 05/19/2004

Virtual Computing Rules

It's hip, it's cool, it's virtual computing. Well, it's cool for geeks, anyways. 05/19/2004

Free Online Security Clinics

Get online training for secure networking and application development; limited time availability. 05/19/2004

Commerce Server Rises From the Ashes of Jupiter

Despite Internet rumors that Microsoft Commerce Server was dead, and despite the crash and burn of the "Jupiter" mega-server project that would have included Commerce Server, Microsoft affirmed this week that Commerce Server has a future. 05/18/2004

TryIIS.com Campaign Launched to Bolster IIS 6.0 Adoption

More than a year after launching Windows Server 2003, Microsoft is starting a marketing campaign to single out the Internet Information Services 6.0 Web server component as a strong reason to upgrade to the server OS. 05/18/2004

Exchange Migration Walk-Thru

Reader has Exchange upgrade problems; plus, update on Exchange memory optimization problem. 05/18/2004

NetIQ Integrates Security Offerings

NetIQ took a step toward integrating its security products so they can be used more seamlessly to address a broader swath of security issues facing the enterprise. 05/18/2004

Windows Longhorn Server Set for 2007

While Jim Allchin said this month that the Windows Longhorn client and server projects are back in synch from a development perspective, another senior Microsoft officials clarified this week that the server version won't be ready as soon as the client version. 05/13/2004

SAP Aims for Tighter Integration with Microsoft Technologies

Enterprise application giant SAP is working to hook its wares more tightly with Microsoft's ubiquitous Office desktop productivity software and Microsoft's widely used Visual Studio development platform. 05/13/2004

Remote Code Execution Flaw Fixed in Windows

After burdening IT with patches for 20 vulnerabilities in its April Patch Tuesday, Microsoft offered a fix for just one vulnerability in this month's patch event. 05/12/2004