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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
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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
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In-Depth
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
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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
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Windows Insider
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
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Neoteris Access 3000 magically secures your connections.
03/01/2003
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ITWorx's Fileway 1.1 provides a Web tunnel to your internal resources.
03/01/2003
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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
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Can a prescriptive architecture help you make money?
03/01/2003
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In-Depth
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
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Ease administration with Enterprise Configuration Manager.
03/01/2003
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Network Intrusion Detection: Third Edition builds the foundation for an informed network security analyst.
03/01/2003
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Exchange updates with Discus Data’s ActiveDL 4.1.
03/01/2003
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In-Depth
They were a smooth-running, well-oiled IT machine—then a sticky, application-specific problem tested their mettle.
03/01/2003
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When it comes to security, don't forget to encode your beloved scripts.
03/01/2003
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Not for beginners, SQL Performance Tuning is an instant classic.
03/01/2003
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Caelo’s Email Organizer creates order from chaos.
03/01/2003
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News
.NET track changes trigger waves of response; how paper MCSEs are a benefit to IT; and more reasons to like Microsoft.
03/01/2003
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This month, our columnists discuss what you can do when burnout strikes.
03/01/2003
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In-Depth
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
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Security Advisor
Microsoft heavily touted its Common Criteria certification for Windows 2000. But what does that mean?
03/01/2003
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News
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
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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
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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
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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
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Intel cut prices on some models of Xeon and Pentium 4 processors between 6 percent and 21 percent this week.
02/25/2003
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Microsoft is finally beating Oracle and competing with Unix in the scale-up benchmarking game.
02/25/2003
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A new variant of the LoveGate worm is posing a multi-layered threat to corporate networks this week.
02/25/2003
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MCP Magazine interviewed Microsoft's Dan Truax regarding the "braindump" case's impact on other alleged braindump testing sites.
02/21/2003
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News
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
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Microsoft has decided not to extinguish all support for Windows NT 4.0 for another year.
02/21/2003
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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
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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
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Keep source code under control with this VSS replacement.
02/19/2003
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Its WebHelp may become a de facto standard.
02/19/2003
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News
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
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A full-blown UML environment on the cheap? Yes!
02/19/2003
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News
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
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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
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New installer entrant is programmatically extensible.
02/19/2003
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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
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News
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
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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
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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
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News
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
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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
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News
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
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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
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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
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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