MCP Program Hits 1.5 Million Participants

Latest numbers show MCSE 2003 at 10,013; MCDST at 1,280. 07/22/2004

Microsoft Earnings, Revenues Grow in 4th Quarter

Microsoft on Thursday announced 15 percent revenue growth, and 82 percent earnings growth for its fourth quarter compared to the year-ago period. But the company missed analyst expectations for earnings per share. 07/22/2004

Fujitsu Ships Itanium 2 Server

Fujitsu's U.S. subsidiary this week rolled out the second server in its line of Itanium 2 processor-based systems. 07/21/2004

Microsoft Contributes Analyst, Free Software to Cybercrime Organization

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is helping a new cyberforensics organization get off the ground with the contribution of a full-time analyst and $46,000 worth of software. 07/21/2004

Abridean Updates Provisioning Software

Abridean advanced its user management and provisioning software this week with a new release that introduces centralized management of policies governing the granting and removing of user access to systems, data and resources. 07/21/2004

XML and Web Services: Are We Secure Yet?

From confidentiality, integrity, and availability to authentication, authorization, and audit, find out how you can employ best practices to make Web services secure. 07/20/2004

Lindows to Get $20 Million from Microsoft, Will Change Company Name to Linspire

Microsoft agreed to pay $20 million to Lindows to get the San Diego-based desktop Linux OS vendor to stop using a name that Microsoft contends infringes upon its Windows trademark. 07/20/2004

Microsoft Unveils $30 Billion Stock Buyback

Company executives also announced plans to issue a special one-time dividend of $3 per share and change Microsoft's regular dividend payments from 16 cents per share per year to 8 cents per share per quarter. 07/20/2004

Split DNS Configuration

IT Weekly Roundup, July 16

From the business wires this week: three new tools for ISA Server 2004, monitoring tools get updated, a freeware untombstoning tool and more. 07/16/2004

Windows Update Services Delayed

Citing the need to incorporate user feedback and the higher priority of Windows XP Service Pack 2-related work, Microsoft pushed back its shipment target for Windows Update Services from the end of this year to the first half of next year. 07/14/2004

Are You Restrictive with Your Groups?

The miracle of Group Policy is that you can maintain tight reins on who has admin rights. 07/14/2004

ISA Server 2004 Generally Available

Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 is generally available, a Microsoft executive told partners at a conference Tuesday. 07/13/2004

Quarantining Part of Windows Server 2003 'R2' Fleshed Out

Microsoft unveiled details, a name and partner support for the quarantining technology it plans to add to Windows Server 2003 next year in the update release, code-named "R2." 07/13/2004

New Beta for Old Windows Exam?

Microsoft to release beta version of 70-291 exam with questions relating to upcoming Windows XP SP2, say sources. 07/13/2004

DHCP Roll Call

Scriptable method for obtaining a list of DHCP server names in a domain. 07/13/2004

Patch Tuesday Brings Fixes for 2 Critical Security Flaws

Microsoft patched two critical flaws in its software in a batch of seven security bulletins released today as part of the company's monthly "Patch Tuesday." Each of the two critical flaws could allow an attacker to take complete control of a Windows computer over the Internet. 07/13/2004

Bagle Comes Back

Bagle is back and security industry insiders say new developments with the mass-mailing worm will probably cause headaches for Windows administrators all summer. 07/12/2004

Windows XP SP2 Coming in August

Windows XP Service Pack 2, arguably Microsoft's biggest service pack yet and the company's most important security project since the Trustworthy Computing initiative, will be released in August. 07/12/2004

Weekly IT Roundup, July 9

New, updated software and hardware announcements of interest to MCPs, from the business wires. 07/09/2004

Postini Declares Shift in Spam Battle

E-mail security and management provider Postini declared this week that its method of blocking spam e-mails based on IP addresses is proving an effective complement to content filtering. 07/08/2004

Group: Piracy Costs Software Industry $29 Billion

Pirated software accounted for more than a third of the software installed on computers worldwide in 2003, representing a loss of $29 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by a software industry group. 07/07/2004

Ballmer Memo Aimed at Wall Street, Employees

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's massive 4,900-word internal memo to Microsoft employees is a major event in Redmond and for Wall Street, but it affects IT shops only marginally. $1 billion in cuts planned by July 2005. Product schedules do not appear to be affected. 07/07/2004

Log Jam

Use caution when setting log file limits; plus, some scripting books to check out. 07/06/2004

Interim Fix Released for Critical IE Flaw

Microsoft released an emergency configuration update over the July Fourth U.S. holiday that for the first time gives Internet Explorer users protection against the specific vulnerabilities exploited by the Download.Ject attack. 07/05/2004

IT Weekly Roundup, July 2

New, updated software and hardware, compiled from the business wire this week. 07/02/2004

Create Cool Custom Tables

Learn how to create and customize data-intensive tables in ASP.NET Web applications. 07/01/2004

Editor for a Day: Greg Shields, Raytheon Company

Despite a resistant corporate culture, Greg and his colleagues developed a formalized change management process, which can even be adapted to smaller groups. 07/01/2004

Integration at the Edge

We can learn lessons from trading hubs and apply the data to IT integration. See how the ESB removes the distinction among internal and external networks for supply-chain apps. 07/01/2004

Patching Windows Security

Get the scoop on Microsoft's series of releases and updates that will tighten security on both the latest Windows operating systems as well as most other Microsoft products. 07/01/2004

Taming Kerberos

If you’re using Windows 2000 Server or above, chances are you’re also using Kerberos authentication. It’s time to get to know this three-pronged protocol and learn how to troubleshoot it. 07/01/2004

Migration Wonderland

Before you tread the path to Exchange migration, here's a look at where that well-worn path leads. 07/01/2004

Keep Your Methodologies Flexible

Software methodologies have their place and can be useful in the development process, but they need to be flexible to provide their maximum benefit. 07/01/2004

Consolidate Servers Now—or Pay Forever!

Microsoft's claims notwithstanding, consolidation may be in your immediate future. 07/01/2004

A Day in the Wireless Playground

SMC has a full line of cards, bridges and routers. 07/01/2004

Exchange Server 2003: Just the Facts Ma'am

Delta Guides tell you only what's new 07/01/2004

Certified Mail: July 2004

Whether you get what you pay for in dirt-cheap servers. Plus, who's eagerly awaiting the next Windows servers? Not these readers. 07/01/2004

Veritas Tackles Offsite Backup

Storage Replicator is a fine alternative to failover. 07/01/2004

Printer Location Tracking

O, printer, where art thou? 07/01/2004

Unifying Data, Documents and Processes

Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model. 07/01/2004

Store Large Lookup Tables in DataSets

When mobile users need to look up and edit data without direct network connections, persist DataSets of lookup information as local XML files to preserve offline updates. 07/01/2004

A World of Unlimited Storage

The creative, inner IT person in me can think of other ways to use that extra petabyte of storage we'll soon have at our disposal. 07/01/2004

Pack ‘Em Up, Move ‘Em Out

Migrating applications is far from easy—that’s why choosing the right tool is imperative. 07/01/2004

Welcome to REDMOND (Magazine)!

Coming in October: More of the same, but more and better. 07/01/2004

Whitehorse Rides to Modeling's Rescue

Modeling has enormous potential, but software modeling tools are too complicated and little used. Microsoft aims to change that with Whitehorse. 07/01/2004

Rainbow Crack--Not a New Street Drug

You can roll your own (pardon the pun) cracks for Windows LM passwords. 07/01/2004

Books: SQL Server for Gurus

The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals helps SQL Server power users manage their complex enterprise systems. This valuable reference manual goes far beyond the product's base documentation. 07/01/2004

Fancy Filework

Applying registration keys en masse via scripting. 07/01/2004

Speed Up SQL Server Apps

Learn 10 useful tips and tricks that help boost SQL Server application performance. 07/01/2004

Take Control of Print Preview

Learn how to implement a print preview dialog that uses the PrintPreviewControl to add features that aren't in the default PrintPreviewDialog component. 07/01/2004