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UltraBac Software said this week that it will in ship version 8.0 of its UltraBac backup and disaster recovery software in mid-January. Back in this release after a hiatus is UltraCopy, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company’s file copying utility for creating duplicate backups for storage offsite.
12/15/2004
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Microsoft has released several exams aimed not at making MCPs; rather, these ones measure competencies of Microsoft Certified Partner members.
12/14/2004
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A perspective on the recent accomplishment of a certain baseball team from Boston.
12/14/2004
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Microsoft's Security Response Center is working on five non-critical security bulletins for release next Tuesday, the company said late Thursday as part of its newly public Security Bulletin Advance Notification program.
12/10/2004
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From the business wires this week: a firewall for education networks, a USB fingerprint reader for printing, and a man skates across the U.S. to meet Bill Gates.
12/10/2004
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Windows Server 2003 "R2" formally entered the private beta testing stage this week, Microsoft senior vice president for the Windows Server Division Bob Muglia said on Friday.
12/10/2004
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Microsoft this week announced that it would hold a 2005 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in September. PDC 2003, also in Los Angeles, was a major event where Microsoft publicly introduced the Windows "Longhorn" operating system and laid out the fundamental components, called pillars, of that next-generation operating system.
12/10/2004
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In a press tour on Friday, Microsoft senior vice president for Windows Server Bob Muglia updated the Windows Server release schedule for next year.
12/10/2004
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AutoProf is set to release this month Policy Maker Professional 2.0, a significant update of the company’s suite of user management extensions that plug in to Microsoft’s Group Policy Object Editor in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
12/09/2004
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Data center automation startup Cassatt says it will ship Version 3.0 of its Collage management product in the first quarter of 2005. The upcoming release will enable Collage to manage multiple tiered applications and will add support for Windows servers.
12/09/2004
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Microsoft offering many Windows 2003 and Exchange e-learning courses at discount for limited time.
12/09/2004
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IBM, the company that transformed personal computers from a hobby to an industry with the introduction of its PC line in 1981, will bow out of the increasingly low-margin market through a partnership with the Chinese firm, Lenovo Group Limited.
12/08/2004
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Microsoft posted the release candidate version of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 to its Download Center on Monday.
12/07/2004
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HP will ship this month a new addition to the company’s lineup of OpenView Server Change and Management products.
12/07/2004
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Microsoft shipped a lot of management tools in 2004. A few minor pieces are on the calendar for delivery in 2005, but most of Microsoft's development work these days when it comes to administration and management is focused on the plumbing that connects Microsoft products.
12/06/2004
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The new release of MessageLabs’ anti-spam service provides corporate users with an added layer of protection from spurious e-mails by incorporating Symantec’s Brightmail technology as well as by bulking up MessageLabs’ own spam filtering technology.
12/03/2004
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From the business wires this week: a Wi-Fi firewall, Web content management solution and more Intel Xeon servers.
12/03/2004
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Microsoft released its second SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview on Friday, giving customers another taste of the long-awaited "Yukon" version of SQL Server now planned for a mid-2005 release.
12/03/2004
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Less than a month from Windows NT 4.0 Server's official end of life, Microsoft on Friday announced that it will offer custom support contracts for large customers running the aging operating system through the end of 2006.
12/03/2004
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Executive Software is shipping a patch management module for automating installation of Microsoft security patches that can be used either by itself or as part of the company’s Sitekeeper systems management suite.
12/02/2004
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For a limited time, Microsoft is making its online exam preparation
clinic for the MCDST exams free for a limited time.
12/02/2004
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As 2004 comes to a close, Microsoft faces small but growing threats around the edges of its desktop monopoly.
12/01/2004
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Too many versions of Windows adds to the burden of support.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
Exchange 2003 allows for a more consolidated e-mail architecture. Here's how to pull it off.
12/01/2004
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Is Windows XP SP2 bringing your remote admin scripts down? Mr. Script has the answer you've been looking for.
12/01/2004
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A Q & A with Blake Ross, lead architect of the Firefox browser.
12/01/2004
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Not your father's SQL Server, administrators will find comfort in Yukon, while developers are left out in the cold.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
Vendors have lots of ways to manipulate ROI data to their advantage, making it seem as if every product is the answer to your IT prayers. Don't believe the hype.
12/01/2004
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The latest incarnation of Microsoft's primary firewall offering is more secure and easier to use.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
Forget about low-carb diets. Storage consolidation is the new craze hitting the fat-conscious world.
12/01/2004
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Analysts at Gartner expect tough times ahead for the PC industry.
12/01/2004
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Following a management and maintenance regimen reduces administration, maintenance, and business expenses while increasing reliability, stability, and security.
12/01/2004
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Microsoft on Wednesday released a security patch for the critical Internet Explorer flaw that was being exploited through compromised Web banner servers. Microsoft considered the flaw, which has been public for about a month, important enough to release the patch ahead of its normal patching day, which falls on Dec. 14 this month.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
Ditch your server dead weight: Consolidate to streamline management.
12/01/2004
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PC-Duo is a veritable Swiss Army knife of management utilities.
12/01/2004
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Live Communications Server 2005 is barely off the drawing board.
12/01/2004
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In-Depth
New hacking methods make short passwords unsafe, but Microsoft makes it tough to go long. Her's how to forge an effective policy.
12/01/2004
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Windows Server 2003's Volume Shadow Copy Service will help admins get off the restore treadmill.
12/01/2004
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Where are they now?
12/01/2004
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It may not be time to retire the term "Wintel" yet.
11/30/2004
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A Dutch Web analytics provider released statistics this month showing that market share for the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser fell below 90 percent for the first time in several years as Mozilla browsers surged to 7.35 percent.
11/30/2004
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Factory revenues for Windows servers and Unix servers were "essentially equal" in IDC's market share report for the third quarter, marking a potential turning point for the Windows server market.
11/30/2004
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A widespread crash of Windows desktop systems threw the United Kingdom's Department of Work and Pensions into disarray for several days last week.
11/30/2004
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Attackers defaced the SCO Website at least twice in recent days -- in one case changing the company's logo to "We own all your code, pay us all your money," and in the other case claiming the company was preparing to sue Microsoft.
11/30/2004
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Microsoft earlier this month released a Community Technical Preview of "Avalon," the new presentation subsystem for Windows.
11/29/2004
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Another version of Sober is getting attention from the major security companies.
11/29/2004
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Security experts are warning users to lock down unused ports after an exploit surfaced for an unpatched flaw in Microsoft WINS.
11/29/2004
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Microsoft has killed its planned Windows 2000 Service Pack 5. Instead the company will release an Update Rollup for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 in the middle of next year.
11/29/2004
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Sonasoft has bundled its backup and recovery products for major Microsoft systems into a comprehensive suite.
11/29/2004
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Tidal Software is shipping an update to its performance and availability management software for SAP on Windows that takes advantage of just released Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005.
11/29/2004