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The shortest and most productive 24 hours of my life.
03/01/2002
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In-Depth
ntds.dit can quickly grow flabby if you don’t work it out regularly. Let NTDSUtil be your coach.
03/01/2002
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A review tool for one of the hard exams.
03/01/2002
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News
Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work.
03/01/2002
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News
Users can chew up disk space in seconds. Quota Server can deal with these space hungry people.
03/01/2002
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Developers and administrators alike need this book.
03/01/2002
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CBT Vision helps you see the answers clearly.
03/01/2002
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Why's the network running so slow? Where's the bottleneck? Is it hardware, software or a user? You can find answers quickly if you know your network's infrastructure.
03/01/2002
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In-Depth
Speed up and simplify your work by applying these 10 scripts to the job.
03/01/2002
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Windows Insider
The Encrypting File System, while serving a need, can also cause big headaches—especially with the XP implementation. Here’s how to do it right.
03/01/2002
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News
Consultancy Gartner assigns a 0.6 probability to Microsoft spending at least $15 billion to acquire IT professional service vendors by year-end 2005.
02/28/2002
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After receiving more than 32,000 public comments, Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice made changes to the proposed antitrust case settlement to answer critics who say the settlement doesn't go far enough.
02/28/2002
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Unisys used the Intel Developer Forum this week to show off two of its highly scalable, Intel processor-based servers. Unisys demonstrated 32-way and 16-way systems running the next generations of Intel 32-bit and 64-bit processors. Both systems ran on beta versions of Windows .NET Datacenter Server.
02/28/2002
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News
EMC, the 800-pound gorilla of storage, upgraded its Celerra NAS device for improved capacity and performance.
02/28/2002
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News
In a newsletter from Jan. 31, I announced a contest seeking early adopters
of Microsoft's Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator title.
02/28/2002
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News
Operating system codenamed "Jameson" will add IPv6 support and other technologies to Windows CE .NET before the next major release.
02/27/2002
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Eight ISVs have now had their applications certified by an independent lab for tight integration with Microsoft's e-commerce server software.
02/27/2002
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The cost per database transaction on industry standard benchmarks continues to drop for Windows-based servers, with Compaq showing off the latest economy TPC results.
02/27/2002
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Microsoft entered into an agreement to provide resource management functionality in its high-end Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system by licensing the technology.
02/27/2002
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Although BEA leads the market for J2EE application servers, some observers have marked BEA for death. But BEA’s slate of new development products shows the company has a clear roadmap for the future.
02/26/2002
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Microsoft took pains to clarify that the new Customer Relationship Management software it announced Tuesday will be strictly for small- and medium-sized businesses.
02/26/2002
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Intel used its Intel Developer Forum this week to formally launch its Intel Xeon processor for servers and a new server chipset.
02/26/2002
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News
Two storage software vendors joined when Legato Systems announced its intention to purchase OTG Software.
02/22/2002
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News
Three of the newly disclosed vulnerabilities represent critical problems in Commerce Server, Internet Explorer and Microsoft XML Core Services. A moderate vulnerability was also discovered in SQL Server.
02/22/2002
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AMD released details about its series of chipsets for its 64-bit Hammer processors. The chipsets, called the AMD-8000 series, will be available in the fourth quarter of this year, AMD says. They will be used in servers, workstations and desktops.
02/21/2002
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News
An MCP from India is the winner of our Count-the-MCSEs competition.
02/21/2002
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Looking to capitalize on Microsoft's announcements that it will retire support for Windows NT 4.0, Sun is offering a competitive upgrade to its Cobalt appliances.
02/21/2002
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MCSE Scott Seppich expects long work days in February, having joined the SchlumbergerSema staff integrating the IT infrastructure for the Olympics.
02/21/2002
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Microsoft responds to a Gartner bulletin alleging that an Internet Explorer patch release was botched and undermines Microsoft's credibility on recent security promises.
02/20/2002
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Microsoft plans to move the mobile and wireless technology from the middleware server into upcoming versions of other servers -- Exchange Server and Internet Security and Acceleration Server.
02/20/2002
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Compaq and HP accompanied Microsoft's launch of Mobile Information Server 2002 with service and package offerings, including pilot program package deals.
02/20/2002
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Despite a burst of attention directed at new languages like Java and C#, C++ use quietly continues to grow. At the same time, observers say .NET-driven changes in Microsoft's popular Visual C++ tool may alienate some C++ developers. Into this scene comes Borland Software Corp. with
C++ Builder 6.
02/19/2002
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Microsoft made a patch available to plug the security hole in Microsoft implementations of the SNMP service. After applying the patch, W2K and Windows XP users will not need to implement the workarounds detailed in an earlier bulletin on the industry-wide problem.
02/19/2002
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Symantec unveiled a new network security appliance, Symantec Gateway Security, that consolidates the features and capabilities of separate Symantec point products.
02/19/2002
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Along with the formal launch of Visual Studio .NET on Wednesday, Microsoft issued two toolkits to help developers build XML Web services using SQL Server and BizTalk Server.
02/14/2002
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A feature added to a compiler in Visual Studio .NET to improve the security of Visual C++ .NET itself introduces the type of vulnerability -- a buffer overflow -- that it was designed to protect against, a Dulles, Va.-based security consultancy revealed Thursday.
02/14/2002
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The recall of Microsoft's Internet Explorer security patch prompts Gartner's John Pescatore to pin Microsoft's ears back again. Pescatore gained notoriety last year for advising IT managers to consider replacing IIS Web servers with Apache.
02/14/2002
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Microsoft advised users of its Windows server and client operating systems to disable the SNMP service if it is running because of a buffer overrun vulnerability in the industry-standard protocol.
02/13/2002
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Compaq is again pushing Windows 2000 into new scalability territory, on benchmarks at least. This time it's the TPC-H decision support benchmark.
02/13/2002
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IBM this week began shipping an enhanced version of its rack-dense xSeries 330 server with a new technology that Big Blue claims makes the system perform as if it had twice the amount of memory it actually has installed. IBM plans to extend the technology to other xSeries servers.
02/13/2002
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Storage giant EMC opens a Windows Competency Center for demonstrating storage networking best practices for the Windows platform and simulating customers' environments prior to production installations.
02/13/2002
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HP dropped prices from 11 percent to 31 percent on some models of IA-32 dense servers and server appliances.
02/13/2002
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Microsoft formally launches its much-anticipated Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment today, making slightly more tangible the Web services concept many predict will soon become a lingua franca in enterprise computing circles. But Microsoft and longtime rival Sun remain at odds, which means developers will likely still struggle to find ways to build for both .NET and J2EE.
02/13/2002
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News
At the VSLive Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft has released official details on its long-awaited certifications.
02/13/2002
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Microsoft released a cumulative patch fixing three critical vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer Monday night.
02/12/2002
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After a slow start in 2002, Microsoft's security apparatus has been busy, issuing one security bulletin in late January and four more bulletins over a six-day period in February.
02/12/2002
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MCP Magazine's writers and editors turn their attention to solving your problems -- technical and professional.
02/12/2002
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Windows 2000 turns two years old this month. The operating system continues to enjoy a reputation for reliability and stability, and Windows 2000 made significant scalability strides in 2001. Still migrations to the operating system continue to drag, and serious doubts have emerged about Microsoft's ability to secure its products. Considerable confusion also exists about the direction Microsoft is taking with the next versions of Windows.
02/11/2002
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Microsoft Corp. has tremendous power to push technological change on IT, but even Microsoft's industry-shaping power is subject to the gale-force winds of economic change.
This is evident in a sampling of Windows end-user companies, contacted by ENT as a follow-up to a Windows 2000 rollout survey conducted at the end of 2000. In every case, companies that had ambitious plans for a Windows 2000 rollout during 2001 have had to scale back because of shrinking IT budgets.
"I was anticipating a number of deals for deploying Windows 2000 last spring, but only one of them came to fruition," says Austin Miller, a consultant and system integrator. "So when I say died, it died."
02/11/2002
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News
Every new technology needs the proverbial killer app to get moving.
Exchange 2000 Server is supposed to be the killer app for the Active Directory. The complexity inherent in both products, as well as Active Directory's slower-than-Microsoft-hoped-for uptake, has prevented Exchange 2000 from exploding onto the market.
Some users are reaping benefits from the Exchange 2000/Active Directory combination, but many others don't believe any irrefutable business case has been presented for making the leap.
02/11/2002