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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Smoothing the lines between Visual Studio and Oracle.
01/22/2003
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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
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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
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Load test your projects under near-realistic conditions.
01/22/2003
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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
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Microsoft announces that it's dropping ".NET" from name of upcoming network operating system family of products as release date looms.
01/22/2003
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Despite initial flood of negative comments, respondents to a poll on MCSA/MCSE program changes overwhelmingly positive.
01/22/2003
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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
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MCDBA, MCSA make list of CertCities.com's top 10 list of “Hottest Certifications for 2003.”
01/22/2003
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The mother of all Visual Studio code libraries.
01/22/2003
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Microsoft will launch Windows Server 2003 and the next version of Visual Studio .NET on April 24 in San Francisco.
01/10/2003
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Analytics simplified and cubed.
01/08/2003
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Scale up your efforts to debug and monitor enterprise projects.
01/08/2003
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Here's a way to recode objects in many ways without losing your place.
01/08/2003
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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
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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
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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
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Spear those dead, useless registry keys and values with Reg.exe after a Norton Antivirus failure.
01/06/2003
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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
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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
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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
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In-Depth
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
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Security Advisor
Microsoft is touting its next-generation secure computing infrastructure as a giant leap for mankind. Not everyone agrees.
01/01/2003
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In-Depth
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
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Panda Antivirus Enterprise Suite keeps those viruses at bay.
01/01/2003
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RouterSim's MCSE WindowSim can help you pump up your IT muscles.
01/01/2003
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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
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What better way to kick off a new year than with a cool new tool?
01/01/2003
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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
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Configuring MetaFrame XP For Windows is chockfull of real-world information.
01/01/2003
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Active Administrator simplifies Group Policy management.
01/01/2003