70-214, Implementing Security Gets Beta Tested Next Week

Registration for this MCSE elective exam already underway. 10/02/2002

Lotus Unveils Domino R6

IBM Corp.’s Lotus Software Group on Tuesday officially took the wraps off of the long-awaited Release 6 (R6) of its Notes and Domino messaging and collaboration products. The major enhancements to Notes/Domino since Lotus last refreshed the products almost three years ago involve efforts directed at reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). 10/02/2002

PowerTCP Mail for .NET

CaliberRM 4.1

Beta Available for SMS 2003

Microsoft this week released the beta code for Systems Management Server 2003, a follow-up product to the aging Systems Management Server 2.0. Little has changed in terms of features since this spring when Microsoft formally unveiled the SMS 2003 name for the product formerly known by the code-name "Topaz". 10/02/2002

MCAD

For programmers, developers of component, application using Microsoft technology. 10/01/2002

Keeping an Eye on Your Servers

ELM Enterprise Manager is more than just a baby-sitter. 10/01/2002

Group: Attacks Spike in September

An independent security vendor based in London, mi2g, says September was the third consecutive record-setting month for what it calls "overt digital attacks." Windows systems made up the lion's share of targeted systems. 10/01/2002

Certified Mail

Readers chime in on salary surveys; exam-testing skills; licensing; and exerting buying influence. 10/01/2002

Exchange 2000 Upgrade, Times Two

It took three separate attempts to finally upgrade my company to Exchange 2000—this after doing the upgrade in a lab environment and upgrading a pilot box with the IT department on it... 10/01/2002

Bugbear of a New Worm Hits the Web

Antivirus vendors warned customers on Tuesday that corporate networks worldwide were being hit by a new worm, appropriately called Bugbear, which is listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a synonym for "problem." 10/01/2002

Troubleshooting Under Pressure

The root of your problems may lie in your event logs. 10/01/2002

Keeping It Clean

PestPatrol is handy when normal virus protection isn’t enough. 10/01/2002

Wireless Meets Mother Nature

It’s important to remember that the answer’s not always in a book or taught in a class, as we found out when investigating a disrupted wireless link. 10/01/2002

The Art of Migration

Quick Look: A comprehensive must-have for Exchange admins. 10/01/2002

Marble Drop

Securing your servers by using templates isn't child's play. In her second installment on this topic, Roberta finds a parallel to a game. 10/01/2002

Printer Magic

You can do a lot with printers in Windows 2000. All it takes is a little sleight of hand. 10/01/2002

Stopping Startups

When software clogs up your system tray, it's time to pull out this Roto-Rooter of a script. 10/01/2002

Hard Drive Fall Down, Go Boom!

Further investigation of a hard drive failure revealed one tiny but important tip that now lets one company's e-mail server run problem-free. 10/01/2002

Get Active Directory Replication Right!

There’s a method to the madness of Active Directory replication, but many of the concepts can be tough to decipher... 10/01/2002

Domain Interrogation

DirectoryTroubleshooter can help you become one with AD. 10/01/2002

Tales from the Trenches

Much of the knowledge IT professionals gain won't be found in a book or taught in a class... 10/01/2002

Minding the Store

As SAN and NAS storage drops in price, more companies are implementing them. What's your role in managing these devices? 10/01/2002

Power in the Details

How do you like our new look? 10/01/2002

Wireless for the Workgroup

With today’s new features and improved defenses, you no longer have to choose between convenience and security when deploying an enterprise-level wireless network. 10/01/2002

Trust Us, We’re Microsoft

Have you read your EULAs lately? 10/01/2002

70-305: Tangled Web

Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET has revolutionized the way we write Web applications. But does that ease of development necessarily mean a lack of complexity? Hardly, as this exam shows. 10/01/2002

Mementos of Windows 2000

What would you need to know about Win2K if you were struck with reverse amnesia? Confused? Read on… 10/01/2002

Adding a Line of Defense

Flicks Titan shores up your IIS security 10/01/2002

The Expiration Date That Did Us In

IT people move on; so, who's doing backups? 10/01/2002

Central Management

Once installed, bvControl tames servers. 10/01/2002

Nepotism Annoyance

Good communication with fellow employees is key to getting work done; in this situation, it's the key to remaining employed. 10/01/2002

Know What You're Getting Into

Offering more than just design basics, this book delves into the management of large-scale LANs. 10/01/2002

Microsoft Press Offers Exam Discount with New Training Kits

Purchase the second edition of selected Microsoft Press MCSA/MCSE-related exam prep materials and get a discount voucher for related exams at VUE. 09/26/2002

Critical Vulnerability in FrontPage Server Extensions

Microsoft publicized a critical new vulnerability for Web servers running its FrontPage Server Extensions. 09/26/2002

IDC: Windows Servers Grow Market Share in Tough 2001

Microsoft grew its share of shipments in the server operating environment market in 2001 by seven percentage points even as the overall market declined by about one percent, according to market researchers at IDC. 09/25/2002

IBM Doubles Down on Blade Servers

IBM on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of Intel-based server blades, which allow users to stack about twice as many blades per rack as the current 1U generation of server blades. IBM expects to ship the blades, which will support Windows, Linux and Novell NetWare on Xeon processors, in November. 09/24/2002

IP Metrics Goes Deeper into Network for Fault Tolerance

Two months after being acquired by storage networking vendor FalconStor Software, IP Metrics is shipping an update to its four-year-old network card failover and load balancing software that moves the solution up the fault-tolerant networking stack. 09/23/2002

Ignoring Skeptics, Microsoft Touts Java as Key Language for .NET

Earlier this month at its Server DevCon event in Seattle, Microsoft professed its support for Java, describing Visual J# .NET as a primary language for the .NET Framework. And though developer interest seems low, Microsoft continues to insist J# is equally important in the .NET scheme of things as its flagship languages Visual C# .NET and Visual Basic .NET. 09/23/2002

HP Updates Workload Management Tool for Windows

In Windows 2000, Microsoft packaged a Process Control tool for workload management only in its high-end Windows 2000 Datacenter Server product. The OEMs who sell Windows Datacenter systems have typically layered on additional functionality with their own workload management technologies drawn from Unix or mainframe product lines. This month, Hewlett-Packard made its workload management tool more attractive to lower-end Windows Server users. 09/23/2002

Enterprises Not Ready for UDDI

Although Web services is finally starting to gain momentum as the latest “it” technology for enterprises, one of the concept’s base-level standards, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, has been particularly slow out of the gate. 09/23/2002

Yankee Group: Get the Lead Out in XP and .NET Migrations

It's no secret that many companies are holding off from migrating to the advanced features of Windows 2000, such as Active Directory, as well as to Windows XP on the client side. It also appears that companies will be slow on the uptake for migrating to Windows.NET as these server operating systems roll out. IT budgets are tight, and companies don't see the urgency to moving to new versions of Windows. However, companies that procrastinate on these migrations do so at their own peril, a Yankee Group analyst warned in a recent teleconference sponsored by the consultancy. 09/19/2002

IBM Shakes Up DB2

IBM's next release of its DB2 universal database, version 8.1, will come with much lower prices for mid-market customers and higher prices for enterprise customers, especially for those deploying high-end clustered configurations. DB2 8.1 for Windows, Linux, and Unix will ship on November 21. 09/19/2002

Group: Windows XP SP1 Violates Antitrust Settlement

An advocacy group this week submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that Microsoft's efforts to comply with the antitrust settlement through changes implemented in its recent Windows XP and Windows 2000 service packs are "hopelessly inadequate and misleading." 09/19/2002

2 Critical Flaws Patched in Microsoft VM

Microsoft issued a patch early Thursday fixing two critical vulnerabilities in its controversial Microsoft Virtual Machine, Microsoft's middleware for implementing Java code on Windows machines. 09/19/2002

Gartner: Get Web Services Pilots Rolling in 2003

A lot of attention around Web services has been hype, and many necessary standards are not in place. Nonetheless, analysts at Gartner said this week that even cautious companies need to begin Web services pilot programs in 2003. 09/18/2002

Microsoft Ships 2.0 of SQL Server CE

Microsoft this week put out a second version of the handheld edition of its SQL Server database. Aside from the usual performance enhancement work, Microsoft crammed several new features into the compact database. The download availability of SQL Server CE 2.0 was simultaneous with a private Beta 2 release of the Visual Studio "Everett" developer toolset. 09/18/2002

Microsoft Outsources Development of MCP Exam

In a precedent-setting move, Microsoft has chosen an outside company, ACT, to develop an MCP exam. 09/17/2002

Survey: Win2K is Most Well-Known Microsoft Product

Windows 2000 is now the Microsoft product on which MCPs have the greatest amount of knowledge, perhaps reflecting Win2K’s growing pervasiveness in the market. 09/17/2002

4-Processor Licensing Offered for Datacenter

Microsoft recently altered its licensing with Windows Datacenter Server to allow for four-processor licensing packs. The change makes it easier for customers to license and use Datacenter for its high availability features. 09/16/2002