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  • News

    SQL Slammer Hits Web Hard

    The SQL Slammer worm, exploiting a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000 patched by Microsoft six months ago, flooded the Internet with traffic and infected about 35,000 hosts over the weekend. 01/27/2003

  • News

    Critical Vulnerability Found in Domain Controllers

    Microsoft alerted users to a critical unchecked buffer vulnerability in a service that is enabled by default on Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers. The alert was one of three security alerts that Microsoft sent to users on Wednesday night. 01/23/2003

  • News

    Altiris Refreshes IT Asset Management Suite

    Altiris released an updated version of its IT asset management suite that integrates more smoothly with common databases and provides users with new ways to look at their IT inventories. 01/23/2003

  • News

    Veritas Refreshes Backup Tool for Windows Servers

    Veritas Software this week unveiled version 9.0 of its Backup Exec for Windows Servers. The software is retooled to support Windows Server 2003, to back up Exchange servers more quickly, for faster setup and with browser-based, remote administration. 01/23/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Appeals Java Order

    Microsoft on Wednesday formally appealed a federal judge's order to start distributing Sun's Java Runtime Environment with every U.S. and German copy of Windows XP and Internet Explorer by June 4. 01/23/2003

  • DevPartner Debugger for Oracle Visual Studio Edition

    Smoothing the lines between Visual Studio and Oracle. 01/22/2003

  • News

    MCSA Sees Significant Growth in First Year

    The past year saw the introduction of two new Microsoft certifications, and one grew by leaps and bounds in its first 12 months. 01/22/2003

  • News

    Change in Format for Knowledge Base Articles

    In an effort to standardize naming conventions for its technical articles, Microsoft has eliminated the letters at the beginning of the article identifiers. 01/22/2003

  • SilkPerformer 5.1

    Load test your projects under near-realistic conditions. 01/22/2003

  • News

    IBM Launches New iSeries Systems

    IBM this week disclosed significant changes to its eServer iSeries line of mid-range servers. Once known as the AS/400 line, the servers primarily run IBM's OS/400, but they can be outfitted with Windows and Linux, as well. New to the iSeries are the addition of a new sub-$10,000 system and the introduction of support for On/Off Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUD). 01/22/2003

  • News

    Windows Server Undergoes Name Change—Again

    Microsoft announces that it's dropping ".NET" from name of upcoming network operating system family of products as release date looms. 01/22/2003

  • News

    Poll: Most Agree With Decision on Certification Changes

    Despite initial flood of negative comments, respondents to a poll on MCSA/MCSE program changes overwhelmingly positive. 01/22/2003

  • News

    Microsoft to Acquire PlaceWare

    Microsoft has agreed to buy Web conferencing services provider PlaceWare Inc. and plans to add the company's assets to a new Real-Time Collaboration Group inside Microsoft's Information Worker business. 01/22/2003

  • News

    Two Microsoft Titles in Hottest Certs List

    MCDBA, MCSA make list of CertCities.com's top 10 list of “Hottest Certifications for 2003.” 01/22/2003

  • Total .NET SourceBook

    The mother of all Visual Studio code libraries. 01/22/2003

  • News

    Microsoft CRM Ships

    Microsoft made its highly anticipated move into the customer relationship management market on Tuesday with the North American launch of Microsoft CRM. 01/22/2003

  • News

    Judge Gives Microsoft 120 Days to Put Sun Java in Windows, IE

    U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to include a Java Runtime Environment provided by Sun Microsystems in new copies of Windows XP and Internet Explorer within 120 days. 01/21/2003

  • News

    SP3 Posted for SQL Server 2000

    Microsoft updated its enterprise database, SQL Server 2000, this week with a service pack that includes bug fixes and some new and enhanced functionality. 01/21/2003

  • News

    Netcraft: Windows 2000 Site Goes 2+ Years Without Reboot

    It was the dream of many a Windows NT 4.0 Web site administrator applying the daily or twice-daily reboot. A Windows 2000 system that would just stay up. This month in its monthly report on Web sites around the world, Netcraft found a Windows 2000 site that hasn't needed a reboot in more than two years. 01/21/2003

  • News

    IT Security Spending to Rebound in 2003

    The final numbers aren’t in, but analysts and security firms are anxious to put a disappointing 2002 behind them even as they look forward to what they say will be a more successful 2003. Over the coming year, Industry watchers expect that IT security spending will increase as firms implement postponed projects and allocate new funding for deferred purchases of security products and services. 01/16/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Announces Dividend, Record Earnings

    Microsoft put up another quarter of record revenues, in part based on strong growth in its server segment. At the same time, Microsoft announced its first stock dividend, a step investors have pushed for in recent years as the days of the stock's meteoric growth have ended. 01/16/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Opens Source Code to Some Governments

    Microsoft is offering limited rights to review source code to a third of the world's governments in what is widely viewed as an attempt to blunt open source momentum among security conscious national agencies. Early participants in the program announced this week are NATO and a Russian agency. 01/15/2003

  • News

    Nearly One Year Later, Trustworthy Computing a Work in Progress

    Long-time Microsoft security-watcher Russ Cooper says that the software giant must do more to enhance the security of its products. 01/15/2003

  • News

    MOM Gets a Facelift

    Microsoft will unveil the roadmap for the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager in March at the Microsoft Management Summit, the company said this week. In the meantime, the company is refreshing its aging management solution with a raft of incremental pieces. 01/14/2003

  • News

    Security Exam Hits Streets This Week

    Microsoft on Wednesday will release Exam 70-214, Implementing Security. The exam is an elective for the the MCSE on Windows 2000 and MCSA on Windows 2000 tracks. 01/13/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Sets Launch Date for Windows Server 2003

    Microsoft will launch Windows Server 2003 and the next version of Visual Studio .NET on April 24 in San Francisco. 01/10/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Changes OS Name to Windows Server 2003

    Microsoft on Thursday formally changed the name of its next server operating system, which is due to ship in April, from Windows .NET Server 2003 to Windows Server 2003. 01/09/2003

  • News

    Spam to Cost U.S. Companies $10 Billion in 2003

    An ambitious new study attempts to attach a price tag to spam. Junk e-mail will cost U.S. corporations more than $10 billion in 2003, according to the report released this week by Ferris Research, a consulting firm specializing in messaging and collaboration research. 01/09/2003

  • News

    Aelita Supports Pre-Release Versions of Windows Server 2003

    Windows network tools specialist Aelita Software Corp. is taking the plunge and supporting pre-release Windows Server 2003 code for its customers, the company said Thursday. 01/09/2003

  • News

    Exchange 2000 Won't Install on Windows .NET Server 2003

    Microsoft has decided not to support Exchange 2000 Server on Windows .NET Server 2003. The software giant says the overhaul required to make the two-year-old messaging server compatible with the security changes made to the underlying server operating system is more than customers would accept in a service pack. Instead, Microsoft is working to make sure that Exchange 2000, running on Windows 2000, leverages enhancements in Windows .NET Server 2003-based Active Directory infrastructures. 01/08/2003

  • PowerOLAP

    Analytics simplified and cubed. 01/08/2003

  • DevPartner Studio for Visual Studio .NET

    Scale up your efforts to debug and monitor enterprise projects. 01/08/2003

  • C# Refactory

    Here's a way to recode objects in many ways without losing your place. 01/08/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Considers Channel-Only Sales for Web Edition

    A slide presentation obtained by ENTmag.com suggests that Microsoft may not offer the Web Edition of Windows .NET Server 2003 through retail channels. 01/08/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Releases ISA Server Feature Pack

    Microsoft posted a downloadable Feature Pack 1 for ISA Server 2000 on Tuesday that pushes Microsoft's enterprise software firewall further up the security food chain into the role of application-layer filtering. 01/07/2003

  • News

    Exchange Server 2003 Beta 2 Version Released

    Microsoft formally named the next version of its Exchange messaging server "Exchange Server 2003" and released a Beta 2 version for broad public testing. 01/06/2003

  • Anti-Virus Annulment

    Spear those dead, useless registry keys and values with Reg.exe after a Norton Antivirus failure. 01/06/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Offers Outlook Connector for Domino

    Microsoft delivered its first connector for using its Outlook e-mail clients with the Lotus Domino servers sold by messaging rival IBM. 01/02/2003

  • News

    K Strain of Yaha Worm Causes Headaches

    Two major anti-virus vendors upgraded the threat level on a variant of the Yaha virus as the mass-mailing worm spilled outside of its original range in the Middle East and Europe into the United States. 01/02/2003

  • News

    Microsoft Must Include Sun Java in Windows XP, IE

    Microsoft must include Sun Microsystems' Java with Windows XP and Internet Explorer, according to a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore. 01/02/2003

  • In-Depth

    Policy Management Made Easy

    Figuring out what group policies apply to an object on your Windows 2000 network can be a painstaking process; but Windows .NET’s Resultant Set of Policies feature promises simplification. 01/01/2003

  • Security Advisor

    Palladium: Blessing or Curse?

    Microsoft is touting its next-generation secure computing infrastructure as a giant leap for mankind. Not everyone agrees. 01/01/2003

  • In-Depth

    Rip-Curl Redmond: Microsoft's Plans for the Future

    Microsoft rules when it comes to monitoring conditions in tech. Yet, to surf the same waters, you need to read wave action—and Microsoft’s next moves—accurately, too. 01/01/2003

  • Control Right Out of the Box

    Panda Antivirus Enterprise Suite keeps those viruses at bay. 01/01/2003

  • Mental Exercise

    RouterSim's MCSE WindowSim can help you pump up your IT muscles. 01/01/2003

  • Personnel Problems

    Job termination may seem like the end of the world, but it's not. To get you back on track, step back and assess what went wrong. 01/01/2003

  • Scriptomatic

    What better way to kick off a new year than with a cool new tool? 01/01/2003

  • Chill, People

    Is Microsoft making the right decisions with its cert program in regards to .NET? Well, consider how other companies change their exams to address a significant technology shift. 01/01/2003

  • MetaFrame XP Soup to Nuts

    Configuring MetaFrame XP For Windows is chockfull of real-world information. 01/01/2003

  • Getting Through the Maze

    Active Administrator simplifies Group Policy management. 01/01/2003

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