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Make sure the information you distribute is only what you really want
out there.
12/01/2002
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Getting the job done often means accomplishing what you can within the constraints of real-world resources and budgets.
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: GFI Ltd. MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 7
Honorable Mention: Network Associates McAfee
GroupShield
12/01/2002
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Mission-Critical Active Directory addresses the intricacies of this complex topic.
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: Sapien Technologies Primalscript
Honorable Mention: Adersoft VbsEdit
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: Microsoft Press Windows 2000 Resource Kit
Honorable Mention: Aelita Software Aelita ERDisk
12/01/2002
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If Redmond maintains the trend, rest assured you'll know what to call "Longhorn."
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: CommVault Systems Galaxy
Honorable Mention: Ultrabac Software UltraBac
7
12/01/2002
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Peer Software's Save-N-Sync simplifies a tedious task.
12/01/2002
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Setting up a common area for sharing resources is easy. Here's how to do it with SharePoint Portal Server.
12/01/2002
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Lightspeed Total Traffic Control puts you back in charge.
12/01/2002
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Security Advisor
So many security toys, so little time.
12/01/2002
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Windows Insider
In the non-Microsoft-exam world, there are serious budget constraints,
manpower shortages and management conflicts over upgrading.
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: @stake LC4
Honorable Mention: Microsoft Corp. MSDN Universal
Subscription
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: Visualware VisualRoute 6.1a
Honorable Mention: Nessoft Ping Plotter
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: DameWare Development DameWare NT Utilities
Honorable Mention: VMware Workstation
12/01/2002
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Desktop DNA delivers enterprise-wide system migrations.
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
SQL Injection is a fairly new method of hacking your database. Learn how it’s done—and how to protect yourself.
12/01/2002
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As 2002 comes to a close, our columnists offer advice on how to succeed, personally as well as professionally, in the coming year.
12/01/2002
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Knowledge of Web technologies is imperative to your success with Visual Studio .NET. Here’s the exam that’ll help you prove your expertise.
12/01/2002
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This useful script will make your life easier, but may make you a grinch to your users.
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: Parker Software Ltd. Who's On
Honorable Mention: NetIQ WebTrends
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
MCP Magazine's experts name the products they can't live without.
See what you may want to add to your Windows network management operations.
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: Tranxition Software Personality Tranxport Professional
3.0
Honorable Mention: Altiris eXpress Migration
Suite
12/01/2002
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Unless you test your application fully, you can't be sure changes you make won't affect another part of the system. Use unit tests to improve programming and application-release quality.
12/01/2002
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In-Depth
Winner: O&O Software O&O Defrag 4 Professional
Honorable Mention: Executive Software Diskeeper
12/01/2002
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St. Bernard’s iPrism helps keep employees in check.
12/01/2002
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News
Linux servers gained market share much faster than Windows servers did in the third quarter, according to research released Wednesday by market analysts at IDC. The analysts note that the Linux growth comes from a much smaller base than Windows enjoys. The Standard Intel Architecture Servers that underpin both OS platforms, meanwhile, continue to make up a growing share of the overall market as Unix servers decline in market share. In other developments, IBM assumed the lead among eight-processor server Intel architecture sellers.
11/27/2002
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News
IBM Corp. this week officially released version 5.0 of WebSphere Application Server (WAS). With full support for existing Web services standards, compliance with J2EE 1.3, a new workflow engine, and a bevy of Web-to-host connectivity options, Big Blue says that WAS 5.0 marks a major upgrade of its Web application server platform.
11/27/2002
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News
In early 2003, HP plans to roll out eight-processor servers based on a second-generation Profusion chipset that supports the newer Intel Xeon MP processors.
11/27/2002
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News
Microsoft unveiled a minor upgrade this week to its Microsoft Solution for Intranets (MSI) package that offers consulting on setting up enterprise intranets based on Microsoft technologies. The new 1.5 version of MSI also integrates an upcoming technology offering from Groove Networks that provides users with a way to work on MSI-based collaboration projects while offline or outside the firewall.
11/26/2002
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News
Dell this week delivered on an earlier promise to begin shipping blade servers. It is immediately offering a 3U enclosure that packs as many as 12 processors.
11/26/2002
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News
Analysts at Aberdeen Group say the evidence of the last 10 months shows that the popular wisdom about Microsoft security -- that it's the worst -- may be outdated.
11/26/2002
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News
The IT industry is having its worst year ever in 2002, market researchers at IDC concluded. Some of the hardest hit sectors were storage, systems, network equipment and services.
11/26/2002
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News
Microsoft warned users late Wednesday of a critical new vulnerability involving the Microsoft Data Access Components, a ubiquitous technology present on most Windows systems. Especially vulnerable are Web servers in the middle of three-tier architectures with a SQL Server database at the back end and most Internet Explorer users. Microsoft also issued an unrelated cumulative patch for Internet Explorer.
11/21/2002
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News
NEC Solutions America will introduce three new Itanium 2 servers in the United States by the end of the year. All based on a unified chipset and architecture, the systems are a 32-processor capable server, a 16-way capable server and an 8-way capable server. The systems will be available immediately with Linux, but they will support Windows in April as soon as Windows .NET Server 2003 ships.
11/21/2002
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News
Although Microsoft's 2003 fiscal first-quarter revenue has risen in all areas, the training and certification group contribution to server segment revenue has dropped 18 percent.
11/21/2002
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News
Version 8 of IBM DB2 became generally available on Thursday. The version sports a new pricing structure and enhanced management features that make the database more attractive for smaller companies that have traditionally leaned toward SQL Server.
11/21/2002
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News
Unisys used 64-bit Itanium 2 processors and a 16-processor server to push the performance envelope of Windows-based systems on SAP's Sales and Distribution benchmark by 250 percent, the company announced this week. When compared against larger Unix/RISC systems, however, the result ranks 10th overall and is 17 percent as scalable as the best result.
11/21/2002
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RoboHelp Office X3: This first-rate help authoring tool gets better.
11/20/2002
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News
Microsoft on Wednesday introduced two beta programs for SQL Server 2000 customers, one for Service Pack 3 and the other for 64-bit SQL Server. Company officials also discussed for the first time a Hotfix Installer tool for SQL Server to be available near the end of this year.
11/20/2002
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News
AMD is demonstrating systems at Comdex and Supercomputing 2002 this week running prototypes of its 64-bit AMD Opteron processors on 64-bit Windows servers.
11/20/2002
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AppSight 4.0 maintains watch over events that may be making your application crumble.
11/20/2002
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Total .NET Analyzer can pinpoint problem areas in your code.
11/20/2002
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News
Bill Gates introduced a new Office application for taking notes and organizing them during his Comdex keynote this week. The application, called Microsoft OneNote, is scheduled for a mid-2003 release.
11/20/2002
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Despite a few rough edges in the beta version, Entegra does a fairly complete job of auditing SQL Server activity.
11/20/2002
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Mindreef SOAPscope can track SOAP requests crossing the wire.
11/20/2002
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Visual Workbench comes close to allowing you to code by dragging objects in
the Visual Studio IDE.
11/20/2002
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News
IBM this week unveiled two new Intel-based workstations that feature reliability and availability technologies borrowed from its xSeries server line. Analysts say better price-performing Intel-based workstations, such as the new IBM Intellistations, are elbowing out RISC-based systems in a workstation market that is collapsing in terms of overall revenues.
11/19/2002
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News
The final beta of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2003 is available, and the development toolset, formerly code-named "Everett," will ship in April along with Windows .NET Server 2003.
11/18/2002