Archive

  • Certified Mail: July 2003

    Spamming the Globe 07/01/2003

  • The Last Waltz

    Final thoughts on maintaining the IT career tempo. 07/01/2003

  • Windows Insider

    Anthony's Tale

    Anthony wanted to run Windows DNS on his company’s BIND network. It worked—until the intern came along. 07/01/2003

  • That Pesky Convergence Stuff

    “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

  • Painless Restore

    ERDisk for Active Directory saves time, money and grief. 07/01/2003

  • The Real Story With E-mail

    NetIQ’s AppAnalyzer 2.5 digs into your Exchange servers. 07/01/2003

  • In-Depth

    Lifecycle of an E-mail Worm

    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

  • Give the My Computer Icon a User Name

    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

  • News

    Windows NT Workstation Support Retired

    Windows NT 4.0 Workstation died with little fanfare on Monday. 07/01/2003

  • In-Depth

    Windows Management from Afar

    Windows Server 2003 offers significant upgrades over Windows 2000 in the area of remote connectivity. 07/01/2003

  • Active Directory Single Object Restore

    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

  • A Simple Plan

    Microsoft sets new securityspecializations for MCSE and MCSA titles. 07/01/2003

  • Searching Active Directory

    Forego scripting—try this LDAP query in the ADUC. 07/01/2003

  • Backup (in) a Minute

    Rest easy: Your data’s safe with UltraBac. 07/01/2003

  • Get the Message

    Straight talk on meshing your enterprise e-mail systems. 07/01/2003

  • Security Advisor

    A 12-Step Plan for File Server Security

    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

  • News

    Microsoft Virus Alliance Grows

    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

  • News

    Windows 2003 Exams Added to MCDBA Roster

    New Windows 2003 exams can be used to fulfill core networking requirements of the MCDBA on SQL 2000 track. 06/27/2003

  • News

    Windows Update

    Here are the latest service packs from Microsoft as of June 28, 2003: 06/27/2003

  • News

    Developer, DBA Exams to Be Decommissioned June 2004

    Microsoft plans to retire 11 exams next year, with the majority affecting the MCSD and MCDBA tracks. 06/27/2003

  • News

    Windows 2000 SP4 Available

    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

  • News

    Exchange 2003 to RTM Monday

    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

  • News

    Is the Worst Over for the IT Job Market?

    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

  • News

    Opinion: Microsoft vs. Network Appliance: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing

    Longhorn changes the rules of the NAS game, but performance and price still matter most when shopping for NAS devices. 06/26/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Updates BI Tool

    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

  • News

    Important Security Flaw Affects Windows 2000 Servers

    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

  • News

    Dell to Ship Madison-based Servers

    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

  • News

    Microsoft Names Chief Privacy Strategist

    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

  • At the Fork In the Exchange Migration Path

    The road behind has no signposts for what's to come. 06/24/2003

  • News

    Licensing 6.0 Step-up Program on Tap

    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

  • News

    Get IT Certified the eBay Way!

    Have you missed out on the easiest, most cost-effective way to earn a technical certification? 06/23/2003

  • News

    IT Compensation Leveling Off?

    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

  • News

    HP Unveils Mobility Push

    HP launched a business mobility push on Wednesday that involves new laptops, handhelds and a rebate program for trade-in PCs. 06/18/2003

  • News

    ERP Market Revenues Declined in 2002

    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

  • News

    Microsoft Strikes at Alleged Spammers with Lawsuits

    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

  • News

    West Virginia Settles in Antitrust Case

    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

  • Exchange 2000 Forest Preparation Error

    Can't prep the forest for the trees. 06/17/2003

  • News

    Exams Retiring at End of June

    Nine Microsoft exams whose retirements were announced in June 2002 will be discontinued at the end of this month. 06/12/2003

  • News

    Instant Messaging Tidal Wave to Hit Corporate IT

    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

  • News

    Microsoft Reiterates SQL Slammer Warning

    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

  • News

    Free Visual Studio.NET Online Assessment Now Available

    Microsoft has added free online skill assessments for developers who want to gauge Visual Studio.NET development and deployment skills. 06/12/2003

  • News

    Gartner: Intrusion Detection Systems a Bust

    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

  • News

    Dell, EMC Extend Storage Alliance

    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

  • News

    Microsoft Buys Antivirus Vendor

    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

  • News

    New Version of Bugbear Strikes

    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

  • News

    Exchange 2003: Spam-killer?

    Many Exchange administrators cite Exchange 2003’s improved spam-filtering capabilities as another attractive feature of the new messaging platform. 06/09/2003

  • News

    Exchange 5.5 Support: Get It While It Lasts?

    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

  • News

    New Tools Emerge for Keeping Spam in the Can

    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

  • News

    Exchange 2003 -- Is There Enough There There?

    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

  • News

    Two Critical Vulnerabilities in IE

    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

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