IBM Announces Smallest Ever Desktop PCs

Big Blue expects a booming desktop replacement cycle, this year and next 06/09/2004

Bad, Bad, BadMail

How to handle the growing problem that is the BadMail folder. 06/08/2004

Crystal Security Flaw Affects Microsoft Products

A problem with Crystal Reports is one of two moderate vulnerabilities that Microsoft addressed in its monthly "Patch Tuesday" release. 06/08/2004

Researchers Estimate Worst-Case Worm Damage at $50 Billion

A pair of security researchers has tried to assess the worst case scenario for a worm attack on the United States targeting commonly used services in the ubiquitous Windows platform. The figure they came up with is $50 billion. 06/07/2004

Call for Users: SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Call for Users: Looking for Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 implementers with varying opinions. 06/07/2004

Microsoft, SAP Talked About Merging

Microsoft confirmed on Monday that the company initiated merger talks late last year with enterprise software vendor SAP AG. 06/07/2004

Two More Microsoft BI Accelerators Hit

Microsoft on Wednesday released two more of its loss-leader business intelligence accelerator toolsets. 06/02/2004

SUS Without the Space

Control software updates, even for remote workers. 06/02/2004

Windows NT, Exchange 5.5 Support Not Extended Under New Policy

Microsoft late Tuesday posted its updated list of product support deadlines in the wake of the announcement of a new 10-year product support lifecycle. The list confirms that Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange Server 5.5 aren't grandfathered into the new program. 06/02/2004

True Life Tale: Telepathic Updates

User believe mind readers are hired at the help desk. 06/01/2004

Books: Use ADO.NET in Your C# Apps

Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#. 06/01/2004

Getting to Know Exchange 2003

One thousand pages of pure modern messaging insight 06/01/2004

Citrix’s Access Dreams

Citrix Systems released MetaFrame Access Suite, bundling MetaFrame Presentation Server with three products for managing access to enterprise applications. 06/01/2004

Contacts En Masse

Find out how to import Contacts and User Objects into Active Directory, as well as modify batched objects. 06/01/2004

The Next Wave of Integration

Microsoft’s Services for Unix ties two OS combatants together. 06/01/2004

Old NT Guys

Where do we go from here? 06/01/2004

Dfs vs. FRS

Admin wants to maintain snappy performance with user profiles and home folders with a Windows 2003 network upgrade. 06/01/2004

Teach Your Apps to Trust

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the basis for creating applications that trust each other to perform their tasks. 06/01/2004

Lock Down Your Handheld Devices

As the capabilities of handheld devices have grown, so have the threats. 06/01/2004

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine to Become REDMOND Magazine

Renamed publication adds veteran IT journalists to staff. 06/01/2004

Group Policy DOs and DON’Ts

Group policy can make your life as an administrator blissful or stressful. Learn from one expert’s experiences what works with group policies, and what doesn’t. 06/01/2004

Add Rich UI Capabilities

Infragistics' NetAdvantage 2004 is a suite of high-performing and feature-laden UI components for developing Windows, Tablet PC, and ASP.NET applications. 06/01/2004

Trend: Companies Bundling Products

Companies like Desaware are enticing consumers by bundling their best sellers for a fraction of the cost of the products combined. And they're giving away the source code to boot. 06/01/2004

Boot-Time Security

Boot-up is a dangerous time for your systems, a time before security policies to protect them may be active. Avoid danger with persistent policies. 06/01/2004

All That JAAS

JAAS is based on the Pluggable Authentication Modules model and provides authentication and authorization services. Check out its many security benefits for Java applications. 06/01/2004

Use “Run as” To Secure Administration Tasks

This tool allows you to do various things using different rights/credentials. 06/01/2004

XP SP2--Dedicated To Security

Microsoft’s next Service Pack for Windows XP is almost totally about improved security. And it shows. 06/01/2004

Automate Exception Logging

You can automate exception logging with one line of client code, control it through an App.config file without recompiling, and use custom publishers to craft cool logging tools. 06/01/2004

A Rare Look at Windows Storage

If you need to dig into the guts, this book may be for you. Then again, maybe not. 06/01/2004

Integrating Windows and Unix Accounts

Vintela eases integration by replacing NIS with AD. 06/01/2004

VS.NET Needs a Novice Version

VS.NET is a flexible and powerful programming tool, but a special novice version would expand its audience (and Microsoft's) not only with hobbyists, but in the enterprise as well. 06/01/2004

4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers Put to the Test

You can buy a lot for $1,000 these days. We test four bargain-basement boxes and tell you what to expect. 06/01/2004

Enhance UI Performance in WinForms

You can improve your UI in several ways, using the .NET Framework's built-in multithreading and asynchronous execution mechanisms. 06/01/2004

70-330 and 70-340: Sweating over Security

These two new exams for developers really put your secure coding expertise to the challenge. 06/01/2004

Manipulate Text With Regular Expressions

Learn whether a given date is greater than or equal to a predefined date and how to add to the Expression Editor dialog box's list of Standard Expressions. 06/01/2004

Directing Traffic

This script can be altered to read/write any kind of Registry entry. 06/01/2004

A Solid Baseline; PowerPoint Melvinisms; Renewal Plan; more

Build Data-Driven Client Validation

Here's a design for creating data-driven validation rules for distributed apps. It lets you distribute the rules from to clients without modifying client-side application code. 06/01/2004

SBS 2003: Your Small Business Operating System

As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 might interest those small and medium businesses. 06/01/2004

Add VROOM with VLANs

Virtual LANs are a good way to speed up your network by grouping users and computers into logical, rather than physical, units. Here’s how they work. 06/01/2004

Backing Up Small Business Server

As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 also comes with a Backup Configuration Wizard. Here are two add-on products that offer help. 06/01/2004

Books: Write Customized .NET Add-Ins

Writing Add-Ins for Visual Studio .NET helps you write an add-in customized to your needs. Les Smith walks you through the wizard and shows you how to develop your UI, trap IDE events, manipulate controls, and migrate your VB6 add-ins to the new platform. 06/01/2004

Output Your Trace Info

Output your trace information to new targets, including SQL Server and XML—and do it without parsing. 06/01/2004

The Pinocchio Factor

How Microsoft is like the fairy tale. 06/01/2004

Microsoft Holds Line on ISA Server 2004 Price

SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft didn't manage to get Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 out the door in time for its TechEd conference here, but the company did go ahead and unveil pricing for its second-generation firewall, VPN and Web caching server. 05/27/2004

SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Gets Close

SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft began taking sign ups for participation in the SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 program this week at its Microsoft TechEd show here as the long-awaited test version of the product gets close to availability. 05/27/2004

Microsoft Details Features of 'R2'

SAN DIEGO -- Microsoft used its TechEd conference to lay out some of the features planned for the next version of Windows Server 2003, code-named "R2." 05/27/2004

Defending Against Layer 8

Remember the 8th layer of the OSI networking stack: humans. System administrators must educate themselves and their users about social engineering practices to prevent attacks. 05/27/2004

Database Platforms: Windows Grows, Linux Grows Faster

Microsoft consolidated its leading share of the Windows database market, but growth of Windows as a database platform trails growth of Linux as a database platform both in raw dollars and in percentage terms, according to new Gartner research for 2003. 05/27/2004

Microsoft Previews Tool for Connecting Apps to Office with Web Services

Microsoft is previewing Web services features that should allow developers to more easily integrate their applications with Office. 05/26/2004