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  • Control Your Metadata

    Make sure the information you distribute is only what you really want out there. 12/01/2002

  • A Practical Approach

    Getting the job done often means accomplishing what you can within the constraints of real-world resources and budgets. 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: Exchange Anti-Virus

    Winner: GFI Ltd. MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 7

    Honorable Mention: Network Associates McAfee GroupShield 12/01/2002

  • AD for the Novice

    Mission-Critical Active Directory addresses the intricacies of this complex topic. 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: Scripting

    Winner: Sapien Technologies Primalscript

    Honorable Mention: Adersoft VbsEdit 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: Windows 2000 Administration

    Winner: Microsoft Press Windows 2000 Resource Kit

    Honorable Mention: Aelita Software Aelita ERDisk 12/01/2002

  • What’s in a name?

    If Redmond maintains the trend, rest assured you'll know what to call "Longhorn." 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: Backup

    Winner: CommVault Systems Galaxy

    Honorable Mention: Ultrabac Software UltraBac 7 12/01/2002

  • Never Forget a Backup

    Peer Software's Save-N-Sync simplifies a tedious task. 12/01/2002

  • Cross Collaboration

    Setting up a common area for sharing resources is easy. Here's how to do it with SharePoint Portal Server. 12/01/2002

  • Take Control of Your Network

    Lightspeed Total Traffic Control puts you back in charge. 12/01/2002

  • Security Advisor

    A Few of My Favorite Things

    So many security toys, so little time. 12/01/2002

  • Windows Insider

    A Real-World Upgrade

    In the non-Microsoft-exam world, there are serious budget constraints, manpower shortages and management conflicts over upgrading. 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: Security

    Winner: @stake LC4

    Honorable Mention: Microsoft Corp. MSDN Universal Subscription 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: DNS Name Resolution

    Winner: Visualware VisualRoute 6.1a

    Honorable Mention: Nessoft Ping Plotter 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: Training

    Winner: DameWare Development DameWare NT Utilities

    Honorable Mention: VMware Workstation 12/01/2002

  • Mapping the PC Genome

    Desktop DNA delivers enterprise-wide system migrations. 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Hacking SQL Server

    SQL Injection is a fairly new method of hacking your database. Learn how it’s done—and how to protect yourself. 12/01/2002

  • Reflect and Rejuvenate

    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

  • 70-305: Web Woes

    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

  • The Season of Giving (and Taking)

    This useful script will make your life easier, but may make you a grinch to your users. 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: IIS Monitoring

    Winner: Parker Software Ltd. Who's On

    Honorable Mention: NetIQ WebTrends 12/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: Products We Love

    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

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: NT 4.0 to Windows Migration

    Winner: Tranxition Software Personality Tranxport Professional 3.0

    Honorable Mention: Altiris eXpress Migration Suite 12/01/2002

  • Write Unit Tests

    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

  • In-Depth

    Editor's Choice: Defragmentation

    Winner: O&O Software O&O Defrag 4 Professional

    Honorable Mention: Executive Software Diskeeper 12/01/2002

  • Surfing the Wild Web Responsibly

    St. Bernard’s iPrism helps keep employees in check. 12/01/2002

  • News

    IDC: Linux Servers Grow Faster Than Windows in Q3

    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

  • News

    IBM Releases WebSphere 5.0

    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

  • News

    HP to Ship 2nd-Generation Profusion Systems in Early 2003

    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

  • News

    Microsoft Updates Collaboration Solution

    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

  • News

    Dell Gets Into Blade Game

    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

  • News

    Aberdeen Report Points Out Open Source Vulnerabilities

    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

  • News

    IDC: 2002 Worst Year in History of IT

    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

  • News

    Critical Vulnerability Affects Most Windows Systems

    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

  • News

    NEC to Ship 32-way Itanium 2 Servers in U.S. Next Month

    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

  • News

    Training, Certification Contribution Lower in 2003

    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

  • News

    IBM DB2 Version 8 Available

    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

  • News

    Unisys Tests 64-bit Windows System on SAP Benchmark

    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

  • Automated Help Documentation

    RoboHelp Office X3: This first-rate help authoring tool gets better. 11/20/2002

  • News

    SQL Betas Out for SP3, 64-bit

    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

  • News

    AMD Demos Prototype System Running 64-bit Windows

    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

  • Locating the Weakest Link

    AppSight 4.0 maintains watch over events that may be making your application crumble. 11/20/2002

  • Analyze That

    Total .NET Analyzer can pinpoint problem areas in your code. 11/20/2002

  • News

    Note-Taking App Joins Office Family

    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

  • Stay Up on Current Events

    Despite a few rough edges in the beta version, Entegra does a fairly complete job of auditing SQL Server activity. 11/20/2002

  • Sniffing SOAP

    Mindreef SOAPscope can track SOAP requests crossing the wire. 11/20/2002

  • Drag-Drop Programming

    Visual Workbench comes close to allowing you to code by dragging objects in the Visual Studio IDE. 11/20/2002

  • News

    IBM Rolls Out New Workstations

    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

  • News

    Final Beta Available for Visual Studio .NET 2003

    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

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