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Security Advisor
Windows Server 2003 provides a way to implement trusts among Certification Authority hierarchies selectively. Here’s how it works.
11/01/2003
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Sometimes things are not what they appear.
11/01/2003
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News
A drill-down into the themes and technologies on the drawing board for the next version of Microsoft Windows.
10/30/2003
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News
Software developers are in the crosshairs of Microsoft’s “Watson” initiative, now that the company is claiming success with the automated customer feedback program in improving the quality of its own software and third-party hardware drivers.
10/30/2003
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Is giving a local user admin rights any way to run a network?
10/28/2003
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News
Bill Gates kicked off the "Longhorn" generation of products in his Los Angeles keynote speech at the Professional Developers Conference, one of the most hotly anticipated Microsoft conferences in years.
10/28/2003
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News
Attendees at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week got their hands on enough code to keep them busy until formal public betas hit next year.
10/28/2003
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Microsoft refined its roadmap for future versions of Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio this week at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
10/28/2003
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As Microsoft floated some of its first real details on "Longhorn," "Yukon" and "Whidbey," IBM moved to pop Microsoft's buzz balloon with a code-named project of its own called "Stinger."
10/27/2003
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News
New exam for MCDST gets beta tested from Nov. 3 through Nov. 10.
10/27/2003
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News
Microsoft updated all of the security bulletins that the company put out in its first monthly security patch release.
10/24/2003
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News
With the launch of Exchange Server 2003 this week, Microsoft is beginning to trot out early adopter customers to show that the new e-mail server allows for huge reductions in messaging server numbers -- and a reduction in costs that makes the server upgrade pay for itself.
10/24/2003
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News
It could be an expensive mistake in large organizations, if the experience of early adopter customers and Microsoft itself is a guide.
10/23/2003
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Microsoft beat analyst expectations slightly on Thursday with its financial results for the first quarter, but the company reported a bigger-than-expected drop in unearned revenue from multi-year licensing agreements (read Licensing 6.0).
10/23/2003
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News
If code-names for future Microsoft products like "Avalon," "Indigo," "Whidbey" and "Springboard" occasionally draw a blank for you, you're in good company.
10/23/2003
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Microsoft makes available core exam for MCSE on Windows 2003 track.
10/23/2003
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Microsoft on Wednesday released Systems Management Server 2003 to manufacturing, clearing the way for a formal launch of the product at an IT show in Europe next month. Microsoft also released pricing and made a 120-day evaluation edition available.
10/22/2003
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NEW YORK -- Microsoft launched its 2003 version of Microsoft Office in a worldwide series of events that emphasized the advantages of deploying the desktop productivity applications with related back-end servers and services for collaboration and business process integration.
10/22/2003
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer effectively closed the door on any Microsoft involvement in open-source initiatives, saying that the commercial approach to software development and sales provides the best security and value to enterprise customers.
10/22/2003
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Microsoft is making the complete version of its new notetaking application, OneNote 2003, available as a free, 60-day evaluation edition in an effort to promote one of the newest members of the Office program family.
10/22/2003
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Recently, Microsoft announced the first public beta of its long-awaited Reporting Services software. Although Reporting Services won’t be available until later this year, BI professionals anxious to take the new product for a test drive can now do so. What can they expect to find? One report administrator, who’s participated in Microsoft’s private beta, says that he “can’t wait to replace everything [he has] with it.”
10/21/2003
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News
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates kick off series of high-profile events to unveil the latest edition of Microsoft Office.
10/21/2003
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The trick to creating Exchange 2000 user mailboxes via scripting is in the CDOEXM libraries.
10/21/2003
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News
New Exam 70-281 exam tests for enterprise deployment using Project Server 2003.
10/20/2003
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Many IT systems are underutilized, and do not have the flexibility to keep up with rapid changes in the businesses they support. That's the conclusion of Gartner analysts who kicked off this week's Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2003 conference in Orlando, Florida.
10/20/2003
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News
Microsoft keeps delivering or promising new SKUs of Windows Server 2003. After the original six versions the company launched on April 24, Microsoft has delivered or announced an additional seven splits of the server operating system.
10/16/2003
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News
The next major business intelligence freebie in Microsoft's SQL Server database took a step closer to reality recently when Microsoft posted the Beta 2 of its Reporting Services for SQL Server 2000.
10/16/2003
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News
Microsoft has a new code-named project for security called "Springboard" that's designed to harden products already on the market.
10/16/2003
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Provide users with local admin access via this nifty script.
10/15/2003
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Microsoft on Wednesday issued the first of its new monthly security bulletins. The first installment is a blockbuster, fixing seven vulnerabilities, five of them critical. Five vulnerabilities involve Windows and two vulnerabilities affect Exchange.
10/15/2003
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Three new 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 entered the beta testing stage on Wednesday.
10/15/2003
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Responding to pressure from users to release a packaged update for Windows XP as the delivery date for Service Pack 2 has fallen to mid-2004, Microsoft on Wednesday posted a rollup package of updates for the client operating system.
10/15/2003
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Nagging doubts about which domain controller is the RID Master.
10/14/2003
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Windows now dominates the server market as well as the client market, even with the growth of Linux, according to new market research from IDC.
10/14/2003
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Microsoft will formally launch its long-awaited Systems Management Server 2003 next month at an IT event in Europe.
10/14/2003
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In a major speech last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave the
company's response to the current security furor instigated by
the Blaster and Sobig.F outbreaks of August and September.
10/14/2003
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Microsoft introduces new certification, MCDST, and two new exams aimed at help desk and desktop support experts.
10/13/2003
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NEW ORLEANS -- Stung by relentless viruses and hacker attacks, and a patch cycle that is spinning completely out of control, Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to mitigate, but unfortunately not eliminate, the crisis.
10/09/2003
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News
Microsoft is making several changes to Content Management Server that should widen the audience for the enterprise server product, including a far less expensive version and fresh integration with the new Windows SharePoint Services.
10/09/2003
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer addresses security, promises new tools to combat growing problems.
10/08/2003
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The SANS Institute along with government agencies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada on Wednesday released a list of the Top 20 computer security vulnerabilities. IIS is the top red flag for Windows.
10/08/2003
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Newest Windows System Server software for small/medium business makes debut at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
10/08/2003
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A reader needs a dynamic, graphical count of network traffic and wants to use scripting to do it. Bill points to a few sources for understanding scripting.
10/07/2003
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News
Microsoft will offer technical support for its Java Virtual Machine until October 2004 under a legal agreement announced Tuesday with Sun Microsystems.
10/07/2003
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News
Intel shipped new Xeon processors for dual-processor servers and workstations.
10/07/2003
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Microsoft broke from usual practice on Friday in sending out a critical security bulletin correcting critical flaws in Internet Explorer that allow an attacker to take control of a user's computer.
10/06/2003
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Microsoft puts Exam 70-298 through its paces with beta testers the week of Oct. 6.
10/02/2003
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Critics continue to pile on Microsoft after damaging worms and viruses slammed Windows operating systems worldwide in August and September.
10/02/2003
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Tumbleweed’s hardware has a hearty appetite.
10/01/2003
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Remotely administer your desktops with GoverLAN.
10/01/2003