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Spamming the Globe
07/01/2003
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Final thoughts on maintaining the IT career tempo.
07/01/2003
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Windows Insider
Anthony wanted to run Windows DNS on his company’s BIND network. It worked—until the intern came along.
07/01/2003
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“One thing we’ll be talking a fair bit about today is the relationship between the PC and the phone. That’s something that will be changing. When you get value added on your PC without having to switch the phone that you use simply by having the PC be aware of what’s going on, that integration, we think, is a very critical one and one that’s influencing the PC hardware.”
—Bill Gates at WinHEC 2003
07/01/2003
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ERDisk for Active Directory saves time, money and grief.
07/01/2003
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NetIQ’s AppAnalyzer 2.5 digs into your Exchange servers.
07/01/2003
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In-Depth
Dealing with e-mail worms and viruses is becoming a bigger part of every administrator’s job. Learn from one of the industry’s foremost experts how worms enter your network in the first place and compromise your systems.
07/01/2003
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It is handy to be able to just look up at the My Computer icon and see where you are and what name you are using.
07/01/2003
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News
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation died with little fanfare on Monday.
07/01/2003
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In-Depth
Windows Server 2003 offers significant upgrades over Windows 2000 in the area of remote connectivity.
07/01/2003
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When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right into AD that you'll want to know about.
07/01/2003
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Microsoft sets new securityspecializations for MCSE and MCSA titles.
07/01/2003
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Forego scripting—try this LDAP query in the ADUC.
07/01/2003
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Rest easy: Your data’s safe with UltraBac.
07/01/2003
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Straight talk on meshing your enterprise e-mail systems.
07/01/2003
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Security Advisor
Securely bringing a Windows file server on the network may not sound difficult. But when it's running Windows Server 2003, there's a lot you need to know to do it right.
07/01/2003
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News
Three weeks after sending shockwaves through the antivirus industry with the announcement that it had bought an anti-virus vendor, Microsoft and three security partners made nice in public with an extension of Microsoft's Virus Information Alliance (VIA).
07/01/2003
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News
New Windows 2003 exams can be used to fulfill core networking requirements of the MCDBA on SQL 2000 track.
06/27/2003
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News
Here are the latest service packs from Microsoft as of June
28, 2003:
06/27/2003
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News
Microsoft plans to retire 11 exams next year, with the majority affecting the MCSD and MCDBA tracks.
06/27/2003
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News
Microsoft on Thursday officially posted the fourth service pack for Windows 2000.
SP4 comes about 11 months after Service Pack 3 and, like SP3, is a recommended update. The fix list includes more than 650 issues with an emphasis on security, application and hardware compatibility, Windows 2000 setup and operating system reliability.
06/26/2003
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News
Microsoft will release Exchange Server 2003 to manufacturing on Monday, company officials said Thursday. The company plans to hold prices steady from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 and will include more flexible licensing options for the messaging server, as well.
06/26/2003
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News
You may be excused for your cynical chortling when hearing that IT hiring may be on the way up, but that's what the latest study from a technology staffing company reports.
06/26/2003
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News
Longhorn changes the rules of the NAS game, but performance and price still matter most when shopping for NAS devices.
06/26/2003
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News
Microsoft on Wednesday released an updated version of a tool to help system integrators and other Microsoft partners build business intelligence applications atop SQL Server.
06/25/2003
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News
Microsoft on Wednesday put out a pair of security bulletins, including one alerting users to an important security flaw affecting the Windows 2000 servers.
06/25/2003
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News
Dell officials on Wednesday said the company would ship two-way servers based on the upcoming Itanium 2 “Madison” 64-bit processor. The announcement marks the computermaker’s return to Itanium, after skipping the “McKinley” generation of the chip.
06/25/2003
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News
Microsoft has gone outside the company to fill the position of chief privacy strategist. Peter Cullen, the corporate privacy officer for Royal Bank of Canada, will join Microsoft on July 14.
06/24/2003
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The road behind has no signposts for what's to come.
06/24/2003
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News
A few weeks after introducing a blockbuster list of changes to Licensing 6.0, Microsoft gave the licensing program another significant tweak in allowing customers with standard edition server software to upgrade to the enterprise edition at a reasonable price.
06/24/2003
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News
Have you missed out on the easiest, most cost-effective way to earn a technical certification?
06/23/2003
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News
Several recently released surveys indicate that salaries may have bottomed out or be headed slightly upward for all IT job roles, including developers.
06/19/2003
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News
HP launched a business mobility push on Wednesday that involves new laptops, handhelds and a rebate program for trade-in PCs.
06/18/2003
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News
As top ERP vendors battle in court and in corporate boardrooms, newly published Gartner research shows that the Enterprise Resource Planning market was on the decline in 2002.
06/18/2003
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News
Microsoft opened a legal offensive against spammers on Tuesday through a flurry of lawsuits filed in Washington state and the United Kingdom.
06/17/2003
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News
Holding out of the Microsoft antitrust settlement paid off in a big way for West Virginia. The state, one of the poorest in the nation, settled on Monday with the software giant for $21 million in cash and vouchers.
06/17/2003
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Can't prep the forest for the trees.
06/17/2003
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News
Nine Microsoft exams whose retirements were announced in June 2002 will be discontinued at the end of this month.
06/12/2003
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News
Corporate instant messaging will take off in the next four years, according to a new study by messaging researchers at The Radicati Group.
06/12/2003
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News
In response to the publication of the SQL Slammer source code in a major industry magazine, Microsoft officials are warning users to make sure they've taken advantage of the rash of SQL Slammer defenses on the Microsoft Web site.
06/12/2003
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News
Microsoft has added free online skill assessments for developers who want to gauge Visual Studio.NET development and deployment skills.
06/12/2003
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News
Investing money in intrusion detection and prevention technologies is a mistake because the systems are failing to provide value and will be obsolete by 2005, according to research analysts at Gartner.
06/11/2003
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News
About two years and 4,100 customers into a storage partnership, Dell and EMC have decided that the arrangement is working out well enough to extend it.
06/11/2003
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News
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it has bought the intellectual property and technology assets of a small Romanian antivirus vendor, but Microsoft left its intentions very fuzzy for how extensively it intends to get involved in the antivirus market.
06/10/2003
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News
A variant of the Bugbear mass-mailing worm started hitting corporate networks late last week, prompting the first worm alert since Microsoft launched its Virus Information Alliance.
06/10/2003
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News
Many Exchange administrators cite Exchange 2003’s improved spam-filtering capabilities as another attractive feature of the new messaging platform.
06/09/2003
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News
Underwhelmed by the feature set of Exchange Server 2003? There’s still a bogeyman that could push you, the entrenched Exchange 5.5 user, to make the move to the new version of Exchange: The probability that Microsoft will phase out support for the aging messaging system by the end of 2003.
06/09/2003
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News
Spam has grown out of control and is choking many corporate e-mail systems. About 24 percent of e-mail coming into corporate systems is unsolicited junk mail, a percentage projected by Radicati Group to grow to about 50 percent over the next few years. A number of approaches are emerging to help organizations get a grip.
06/09/2003
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News
Researchers say that as many as 60 percent of Exchange seats continue to run on Exchange 5.5, even with Exchange 2000 approaching its third anniversary. Microsoft has put a lot of features into Exchange Server 2003 to entice those 5.5 users to move on up. Will it be enough?
06/09/2003
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News
Two critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 could allow code execution. Microsoft released a cumulative patch on Wednesday for Internet Explorer that fixes the flaws.
06/05/2003