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  • News

    Active Directory Adoption in Full Swing

    A key indicator of Windows 2000’s popularity in the enterprise, Active Directory adoption, is showing dramatic growth, according to a Web survey by ENTmag.com. 03/04/2003

  • News

    30,000 Registrations for OneNote Beta

    Microsoft is claiming a groundswell of user interest in the note-taking application it is planning to add to the Microsoft Office family later this year. 03/04/2003

  • In-Depth

    What About NAS?

    While SANs are networks that connect storage to servers, think of a NAS as a server with a lot of local storage. 03/01/2003

  • VPNs the Easy Way

    Whoever said virtual private networks are difficult to set up and the potential weak link in your security hasn't looked closely at Microsoft's VPN solution. 03/01/2003

  • Windows Insider

    Thump. Thump. Is This Thing On?

    Analyzing network traces may not the most exciting task, but it can be the fastest way to get to the root of a problem. 03/01/2003

  • Simple Wizardry

    Neoteris Access 3000 magically secures your connections. 03/01/2003

  • Network Access, Anywhere

    ITWorx's Fileway 1.1 provides a Web tunnel to your internal resources. 03/01/2003

  • News

    Guilty as Charged

    Quick test: Have you ever used a "braindump" for exam preparation? The answer to that question may not be as simple as a "yes" or "no." 03/01/2003

  • Doctor’s Orders

    Can a prescriptive architecture help you make money? 03/01/2003

  • In-Depth

    Building the Perfect SAN

    As prices continue to drop, storage area networks are becoming increasingly common. Here’s what you need to know to design and build your enterprise’s SAN. We’ve even done the testing for you. 03/01/2003

  • Compliance Made Simple

    Ease administration with Enterprise Configuration Manager. 03/01/2003

  • Secure Fundamentals

    Network Intrusion Detection: Third Edition builds the foundation for an informed network security analyst. 03/01/2003

  • Keep Current

    Exchange updates with Discus Data’s ActiveDL 4.1. 03/01/2003

  • In-Depth

    Top Guns Under Fire

    They were a smooth-running, well-oiled IT machine—then a sticky, application-specific problem tested their mettle. 03/01/2003

  • Isn’t It Ironic?

    When it comes to security, don't forget to encode your beloved scripts. 03/01/2003

  • Hands-On SQL

    Not for beginners, SQL Performance Tuning is an instant classic. 03/01/2003

  • Yeah, I’ve Got Mail

    Caelo’s Email Organizer creates order from chaos. 03/01/2003

  • News

    Certified Mail: March 2003

    .NET track changes trigger waves of response; how paper MCSEs are a benefit to IT; and more reasons to like Microsoft. 03/01/2003

  • Getting Your Mojo Back

    This month, our columnists discuss what you can do when burnout strikes. 03/01/2003

  • In-Depth

    Patching the Holes

    Software Update Services is Microsoft’s new server for distributing hotfixes and patches across the enterprise. It’s also a tremendous time-saver. 03/01/2003

  • Security Advisor

    Windows and Common Criteria

    Microsoft heavily touted its Common Criteria certification for Windows 2000. But what does that mean? 03/01/2003

  • News

    Rights Management Coming for Windows Server 2003

    Microsoft is adding digital rights management services to Windows Server 2003. The technology will be available as an add-on sometime after Windows Server 2003 is released in April. 02/26/2003

  • News

    New Deployment Tools Go Live for Windows XP, Office XP

    From the trough between client operating system releases, Microsoft this week made public a comprehensive set of free enterprise desktop evaluation and deployment tools for Windows XP Professional and Office XP. 02/26/2003

  • News

    Critical Patch Released for Windows Me

    Microsoft issued a critical security patch for the Windows Me on Wednesday. The flaw in the Windows Me Help and Support Center could enable code execution. 02/26/2003

  • News

    IDC: Asia/Pacific to Supplant North America as Developer Powerhouse

    Huge growth in the number of application developers in China and India will lead the Asia/Pacific past North America by 2005 as the region with the most developers, according to recently published research from analyst firm IDC. Meanwhile, Microsoft's C languages still dominate among North American developers, but Java has momentum. 02/25/2003

  • News

    Intel Announces Price Cuts

    Intel cut prices on some models of Xeon and Pentium 4 processors between 6 percent and 21 percent this week. 02/25/2003

  • News

    Microsoft, NEC, Intel Return Massive Benchmark Result

    Microsoft is finally beating Oracle and competing with Unix in the scale-up benchmarking game. 02/25/2003

  • News

    Lovegate Worm Makes the Rounds

    A new variant of the LoveGate worm is posing a multi-layered threat to corporate networks this week. 02/25/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Addresses Exam Piracy

    MCP Magazine interviewed Microsoft's Dan Truax regarding the "braindump" case's impact on other alleged braindump testing sites. 02/21/2003

  • News

    The Sounds of Security

    Forget .NET. Sayonara, Web services. What Microsoft really wants you to know about its products these days is that you can trust them. 02/21/2003

  • News

    Support for NT 4.0 Extended One Year

    Microsoft has decided not to extinguish all support for Windows NT 4.0 for another year. 02/21/2003

  • News

    6 New Oracle Flaws Patched

    Security researchers at CERT/CC underscored the importance of a group of newly patched vulnerabilities in Oracle Corp.'s enterprise software, including versions that run on Windows servers. 02/20/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Brings Virtualization in House

    Microsoft rumbled into the virtual machine market on Wednesday with the purchase of desktop and server virtualization product assets from privately held Connectix Corp. The move is certain to make virtualization a more mainstream technology among Windows users, but it fogs the outlook for current market leader, VMWare. 02/20/2003

  • SourceGear Vault

    Keep source code under control with this VSS replacement. 02/19/2003

  • Quick Look: RoboHelp Office Pro for .NET

    Its WebHelp may become a de facto standard. 02/19/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Details MCSE on Windows Server 2003 Exams

    The company has modified the requirements of its certification programs for the MCSE and MCSA on Windows Server 2003 and provided an upgrade path for people certified on Windows 2000. 02/19/2003

  • Enterprise Architect

    A full-blown UML environment on the cheap? Yes! 02/19/2003

  • News

    Opinion: Is Open Source the New Normal?

    As the Desktop Linux Summit gets underway in San Diego – on the heels of last month's enterprise-oriented LinuxWorld – it appears that Microsoft is swimming the wrong way against the tide of history. Not that history hasn’t been kind to Redmond. Just two decades ago, Microsoft led the rebel alliance that turned computing on its head by introducing the notion of a commodity-priced operating system running on separate commodity-priced hardware. Now, Microsoft is the Empire to be toppled. The operating system is becoming a layer of code that exists, for all intents and purposes, in the public domain. And Microsoft’s responses to this shift – and threat to its core business – have been tepid and misguided. 02/19/2003

  • News

    HP Ships F8-based Servers

    Moving to reassert the former Compaq's role as the leading vendor of eight-way, industry-standard servers, Hewlett Packard Co. this week shipped its long-awaited industry standard eight-processor servers based on the new F8 chipsets. 02/19/2003

  • ActiveInstall

    New installer entrant is programmatically extensible. 02/19/2003

  • News

    VMWare Scales Up

    VMWare has created a market for itself by providing software that slices and dices individual processors within Intel-based servers and workstations down to smaller partitions used by multiple instances of operating systems. Now VMWare is moving upmarket a bit, unveiling a product that will allow server administrators to create partitions out of groups of processors. 02/19/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Releases Details on New Exams for MCSE on Windows Server 2003 Track

    The company has modified the requirements of its certification programs for the MCSE and MCSA on Windows Server 2003 and provided an upgrade path for people certified on Windows 2000. 02/17/2003

  • News

    IE Patch Flawed

    Microsoft put out a new version of a cumulative security patch for Internet Explorer originally released last week due to problems with users being locked out of some subscription-based Web sites and their MSN e-mail. Microsoft said the problem primarily affected consumers and the company emphasized that the problem had nothing to do with the underlying security issue addressed by the patch. 02/13/2003

  • News

    Dell Reports Fourth-Quarter Growth

    Dell Computer Corp. turned in a 32 percent improvement in profits for the quarter ended Jan. 31, the company reported Thursday afternoon. Dell saw net income of $603 million on revenues of about $9.7 billion for the quarter. 02/13/2003

  • News

    Precise Updates StorageCentral SRM

    Precise Software Solutions' storage resource management software was updated this week to support Network Appliance filers, greatly increasing Precise's access to the network-attached storage market. 02/13/2003

  • News

    Visual Studio Gets Preview

    Microsoft’s latest suite of development tools will provide optimized database connectivity, an enhanced version of the .NET Framework, and better mobile application programming capabilities. But even Microsoft called the new release “incremental.” At the same time the company announced a timeline for its next two Visual Studio releases. 02/12/2003

  • News

    Yukon to Get Reporting Services

    The ongoing effort to expand the SQL Server database into a broader business intelligence and applications platform continues as Microsoft adds enterprise reporting services to its flagship database. 02/12/2003

  • News

    Office Newcomer XDocs Renamed InfoPath

    Microsoft this week gave a formal name to an upcoming XML client that will be an addition to the Microsoft Office family. The product, which had been code-named XDocs, will launch as InfoPath in the middle of this year, Microsoft said. 02/11/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Reposts Windows NT Patch

    Microsoft posted a fixed version of a botched security patch from December that had been causing Windows NT 4.0 systems to crash. 02/11/2003

  • News

    Managing Expectations on Trustworthy Computing

    SQL Slammer hit one of Microsoft's flagship enterprise products just as the company was patting itself on the back for a year's worth of Trustworthy Computing progress. The damaging worm highlights both the strengths -- and the weaknesses -- of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing effort. 02/10/2003

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