A reader's encrypted files are safe and recoverable if he turned on the Data Recovery Agent.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2004
How the GC plays a role in Active Directory.
Safely find your way to Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2004
<i>VSM</i> takes an in-depth look at the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, but rest assured the magazine's focus remain on the practical, hands-on code and samples.
- By Patrick Meader
- 02/01/2004
Roger Jennings answers a reader who asserts that using the SQLXML interface to provide HTTP access to SQL Server is not appropriate for high-performance, enterprise solutions.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2004
If you have the latest and greatest from Microsoft—Windows Server 2003, Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2003—your users can get seamless remote access to e-mail.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2004
Cull unused or deleted accounts using the LDIFDE tool and some scripting trickery.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2004
If you think today’s PC hardware is astounding, stick around for a decade.
Take advantage of a number of VS.NET add-ins, including one that lets you implement and manage temporary links, which are URLs that are active for a limited amount of time and are typically used in software distribution and e-mail campaigns.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2004
Learn new features to jazz up your WinForms apps with this month's handy FileWatch utility. FileWatch monitors files and directories for changes, and runs as a task tray icon.
- By Stan Schultes
- 02/01/2004
In one domain where the servers seem to be missing, setting up WINS correctly may be the quick fix.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2004
Getting user buy-in for security is critical. Using certificate autoenrollment is a way to make it pain-free.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/01/2004
Is it time to set your own code of ethics?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/01/2004
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 02/01/2004
Longhorn and DRM offer a lot to digital rights holders and businesses, but what's in it for consumers, the ostensible target for the next version of the operating system?
New frontiers for certification
Microsoft has pulled out all the stops in announcing where its development tools are heading, but it's important to keep a sense of perspective.
- By Patrick Meader
- 01/01/2004
Chris Dias, group program manager for Visual Basic .NET at Microsoft, talks about the present and future of the language, including the target audience of this tool.
Clearing the air on Windows Server 2003 offline file servers and offline file clients.
- By Bill Boswell
- 01/01/2004
Readers react to Alan Cooper's Software Architect column, "The Last Gasp, " even asserting that Alan "must be living on another planet."
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 01/01/2004