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Microsoft confirms that CompTIA's Security+ exam has been added to the MCSA and MCSE on Windows 2000 requirements list as an exam option.
06/05/2003
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IBM on Thursday released a new version of its DB2 database designed to compete with Microsoft SQL Server for the fast-growing cost-sensitive end of the database market.
06/05/2003
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Microsoft Host Integration Server, Microsoft's product for connecting Windows servers to mainframes and other so-called "legacy" systems, has seen its marketing budget killed and its development team slashed, yet the product keeps selling. In fact, Microsoft plans to ship an updated version, Host Integration Server 2004, next year.
06/05/2003
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Microsoft plans to test two more exams for the MCSE on Windows 2003 track later this month.
06/05/2003
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Microsoft and VeriSign are working together to deliver what they call a "next-generation public key infrastructure platform" for delivery by the end of the year.
06/04/2003
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The patch management problem is in Microsoft's crosshairs. During a TechEd keynote, Microsoft chief security strategist Scott Charney said he has created a patch management working group inside Microsoft. Current projects include a white paper that will lay out the company's patch management strategy and an engineering effort to reduce the company's number of patch installation technologies from the current eight to two by the end of the year.
06/04/2003
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Check your transcript — you might already be a security specialist, according to Microsoft.
06/02/2003
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Think your organization is up to date on its Microsoft security patches? Then make sure you've reviewed the events of the last week. Since Wednesday evening, Microsoft has re-released three security bulletins for reasons ranging from quality control problems to underestimates of the number of platforms affected by a threat to underestimates of the seriousness of a threat.
06/02/2003
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Will Exchange Server 2003 support Windows Server 2003? Seems like a simple question, but with Microsoft's myriad server OS editions, the answer gets complicated. In almost all real-world usage scenarios, the answer is yes.
06/02/2003
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DALLAS -- Beating the drum for Exchange Server 2003's eventual launch, Microsoft on Monday at TechEd announced the availability of Release Candidate 1 of the company's flagship messaging server.
06/02/2003
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DALLAS -- Microsoft senior vice president Paul Flessner used his TechEd keynote Monday to update Microsoft's roadmap for its enterprise products for the next four years or so. As part of a comprehensive roadmap, Flessner unveiled several milestones and new items, including Exchange Server 2003 RC1, the imminent RTM of Windows Storage Server 2003, a BizTalk Server 2004 Beta and a huge price drop in the SQL Server Developer Edition.
06/02/2003
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Retina puts several security tools into one package.
06/01/2003
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Who's worth hiring; how fast will you tread to Windows Server 2003 upgrade?
06/01/2003
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Most of today's tools don't address ALM well. Eclipse and Visual Studio change that equation.
06/01/2003
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LiveVault makes secure backup and restore a snap.
06/01/2003
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The Administrator’s Introduction to Application Repackaging and Software Deployment using Windows Installer provides a solid
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06/01/2003
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In-Depth
How do you dive into the sea of networks in an efficient and secure way? We look at four firewall products—both hardware and software—that will help keep the sharks at bay.
06/01/2003
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You can conceivably set up most of your company for telecommuting with Windows Server 2003’s much-improved RRAS and VPN features. Here’s how.
06/01/2003
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This month, our columnists address some common questions.
06/01/2003
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Changing the registry is a scary concept, but WMI makes it simple.
06/01/2003
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Quest MessageStats makes it easier to keep on top of things.
06/01/2003
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In-Depth
This IT pro should have known better than to reboot the Primary Domain Controller on Friday the 13th. Read on about his special nightmare.
06/01/2003
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Security Advisor
Office XP is a big product, one that requires close scrutiny to properly lock down.
06/01/2003
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Your faithful correspondent contemplates exam economics.
06/01/2003
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Windows Insider
Bill wraps up his three-part series on building a wireless infrastructure by discussing security protocols.
06/01/2003
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Will you accept or decline the latest offer?
06/01/2003
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Thwart nasty viruses with Sybari’s Antigen.
06/01/2003
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In a move to make its Office XP products more attractive to retail customers and small businesses, Microsoft cut prices for several suites and individual personal productivity applications on Wednesday.
05/29/2003
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Microsoft will pay AOL-Time Warner $750 million to settle the private antitrust lawsuit involving AOL's Netscape browser, the companies said Thursday afternoon.
05/29/2003
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Microsoft this week rolled out changes to the controversial Software Assurance component of Licensing 6.0 in an attempt to make the program more attractive to customers. The changes don't make Software Assurance any cheaper, but Microsoft has thrown in additional services for the same price.
05/28/2003
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The definition of the Microsoft Office System on Tuesday grew to include the forthcoming Microsoft Real-Time Communications Server.
05/28/2003
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Microsoft on Wednesday issued a cumulative patch for Internet Information Services that fixed four newly discovered flaws in the Web server. The most serious problem affects IIS 5.0 and 5.1 and is rated "important" by Microsoft. The Trustworthy Computing-scrubbed IIS 6.0, released as part of Windows Server 2003, is unaffected by any of the flaws.
05/28/2003
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Federal Computer Week reporter reports on IT systems deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
05/27/2003
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China is a potentially huge market for the IT industry. And, of course, Microsoft would never miss out on an opportunity like that.
05/27/2003
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Microsoft has assembled a bundle of third-party wireless products for a promotion next month to allow mid-market customers to administer Windows Server 2003 remotely from a handheld device.
05/22/2003
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The SCO Group (SCO) last week shifted gears in what it describes as an effort to assert its intellectual property (IP) rights, which SCO claims have been illegally incorporated into the open source Linux operating system.
05/22/2003
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Only 20 days in, May 2003 had already broken the record for the most overt digital attacks in one month, according to digital risk assessment firm mi2g.
05/22/2003
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Microsoft released the first public beta this week of its Microsoft Office Visio 2003 business drawing and diagramming software.
05/21/2003
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New research on the database market from Gartner on Wednesday quantifies in yet another area the case for arguing that 2002 was the worst year yet for IT. But the research also supports another trend -- no matter how bad things got, Microsoft kept growing and churning out profits.
05/21/2003
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Microsoft is stepping up to the plate a little more on virus response this week with the creation of the Virus Information Alliance, a partnership with Network Associates and Trend Micro.
05/21/2003
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HP hoisted its Superdome-Itanium-Windows combination to the top of the premier OLTP scalability benchmark on Tuesday, about a month after originally gaining the top spot and little more than a week after IBM displaced the combo with a system based on its own AIX/RISC/DB2 stack.
05/20/2003
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The new systems support Windows and Unix in mixed environments.
05/20/2003
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Microsoft to test out 70-290, 70-291 exams with beta testers in June.
05/19/2003
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A new mass mailing worm spoofs Microsoft's domain name to deliver a payload disguised as an attachment from Microsoft. The worm was discovered by anti-virus vendors over the weekend and it picked up momentum Monday as users fired up their mailboxes for the work week.
05/19/2003
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Microsoft is offering $100 off the retail price for its Windows Server 2003 training; offer valid until Dec. 31, 2003.
05/19/2003
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Microsoft created a slush fund to heavily discount or even give away Windows in cases where the software giant was about to lose large international deals to Linux, according to published reports.
05/15/2003
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AMD bumped up the performance of its Athlon XP line this week with the release of its 3200+ model.
05/14/2003
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Intel acknowledged a flaw this week in its Itanium 2 processors that have been shipping since July. The problem could cause systems to crash.
05/14/2003
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HP on Wednesday began shipping a new two-way ProLiant server that shows how far the Windows/Intel/industry-standard hardware bloc has come.
05/14/2003
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Mere weeks after its years-long drive up the TPC-C benchmark performance charts culminated in the top position, Microsoft lost out late last week to a Unix system from IBM. Microsoft, no doubt, will be back, but the result shows that the Unix camp has far from ceded the premiere OLTP scalability benchmark to the upstart Windows-Intel side of the market.
05/13/2003