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  • Security Advisor

    The Hidden Risks of Process Controls

    These networks aren’t well known by many, yet they’re responsible for controlling much in our lives. And they’re not very secure. 05/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    Book Review: Delve Inside C#

    The C# Programming Language is a reference book that will benefit both beginners and veterans alike. Topics include exceptions, unsafe code, generics, anonymous methods, iterators, and partial types. 05/01/2004

  • Analyze Your Baseline Security

    MBSA offers much more than updates to your network. 05/01/2004

  • Test Code-Access Security

    CAS/Tester from Desaware runs your application through an automated test suite that assesses and reports on your app's code-access security. 05/01/2004

  • Snappier Throughput Through Thorough Defrag

    Executive Software's Diskeeper 8.0 can restore speed lost to scattered files. 05/01/2004

  • Offshoring Stirs Reader Passions

    Readers respond en masse to a recent Editor's Note on offshoring with a mixture of acceptance at its inevitability and outrage at the companies sending jobs overseas. 05/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    Enlist ADO.NET Connections in Pooled Objects Manually

    You can boost performance in server-side apps by using COM+ pooled objects to cache resources. Be sure to enlist the connection manually each time the object pool picks up the object. 05/01/2004

  • Control Schizophrenia

    FSLogic Protect 1.0 supports multiple personalities. 05/01/2004

  • Implementing a Low-Budget Disaster Recovery Plan

    How to prepare a small or medium business for disaster without overextending its already tight budget or overwhelming management with the details of an in-depth proposal. 05/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    10 DNS Errors That Will Kill Your Network

    DNS is the foundation the house of Active Directory is built upon. If DNS doesn’t work, neither will your Windows network. Here are the 10 most common DNS errors—and how you can avoid them. 05/01/2004

  • Install Help Files from Other Operating Systems

    Having this information at your finger tips will let you switch from one OS's help to any other. 05/01/2004

  • Activate Windows Impersonation Selectively

    Activate Windows impersonation selectively, determine the update order of DataTables at run time, guarantee the delivery order of asynchronous delegates, and more. 05/01/2004

  • Streamline Your Systems Management

    In March 2004, Microsoft refined its new management vision with the announcement of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and the first version of its unified operations environment, System Center 2005. Both products are due for release later this summer. 05/01/2004

  • Outsourcing 101; Bill's Mills; AD Accounts and more

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  • Secure Your Directory-Enabled Apps

    Find out how Active Directory Application Mode and Windows Authorization Manager can simplify security, personalization, and configuration for your directory-enabled applications. 05/01/2004

  • A Live Meeting Minus the Airfare

    Microsoft’s newest collaboration tool. 05/01/2004

  • Keeping Pace With Patches

    Ecora automates Windows and Unix patch management. 05/01/2004

  • What's Your Level?

    Maturity in management comes at different stages. 05/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    Thin Clients, Fat Heads

    This business owner’s thin-client Windows network was impregnable. Or so he thought, until he met Bob… 05/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    Souping Up Windows 2003 Migrations

    Five tools that promise to speed and ease Windows 2003 file and print migrations. Which one is the very best? 05/01/2004

  • Create PDFs From ASP Apps

    Check out the latest VS.NET add-ins, including a product that lets you create, read, and modify PDF documents from any application supporting COM, including ASP and ASP.NET. 05/01/2004

  • Delegating Rights

    You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree. 05/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    Use InfoPath With VS.NET 2003

    InfoPath SP1 and the new .NET 2003 Toolkit let you implement business logic behind InfoPath forms with managed VB.NET or C# code instead of JScript or VBScript event handlers. 05/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    Readers Review Exchange Server 2003

    In an entirely new approach to product reviews, 13 loyal MCP Magazine readers detail their experiences running Exchange 2003 in production environments.  05/01/2004

  • Ooops! Recovering Deleted Files: Volume Snapshots vs. Undelete 4.0

    Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services and Undelete 4.0 are a potent one-two punch. 05/01/2004

  • Renewal Notice

    Are you past due? 05/01/2004

  • News

    Antivirus From the Edge

    In an interview from MCP Radio, Editor Michael Domingo interviewed Anton Zajac, president of Eset Software about his company's antivirus offerings. 04/29/2004

  • News

    Windows XP SP2 Delayed

    The release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update of the two-and-a-half-year-old operating system, is being pushed back into the second half of the year. 04/29/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Admits Problem with Blockbuster Patch

    Microsoft on Wednesday night acknowledged that its massive April 13 security patch was causing serious problems in some Windows 2000 systems. 04/29/2004

  • News

    ISA Server 2004 to Launch at TechEd

    Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that it will launch Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 at its annual TechEd conference, which is being held this year in San Diego the week of May 24. 04/28/2004

  • Inside Windows XP SP2 Security Enhancements

    Control of external connections made easier through Windows Firewall. 04/28/2004

  • News

    Citrix Updates MetaFrame Access Suite

    Citrix Systems on Tuesday updated its MetaFrame Access Suite, which bundles Citrix' flagship MetaFrame Presentation Server with three other products for managing access to enterprise applications. applications. 04/27/2004

  • Optimizing Exchange Memory Usage

    How Exchange 2000 is like your two-year-old. 04/27/2004

  • In-Depth

    Books: Develop Web Solutions With VB.NET

    VB.NET offers an improved palette for creating Web-based software. Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET is a complete reference book that gives you all the info you need. 04/26/2004

  • News

    The Active Directory of the Future

    The three key areas of Active Directory development that Microsoft is focused on for that next big server release are adding new security capabilities, adding new management capabilities and improving the ease of use of the directory service. 04/26/2004

  • Troubleshooting Tips: Get to Know FRS

    Healthy FRS means healthy Group Policy. 04/26/2004

  • News

    NT User Base Slowly But Surely Graduating to Active Directory

    Recent survey research by ENTmag.com is consistent with statements from Microsoft officials and industry analysts -- Active Directory is building significant momentum among the Windows user base. 04/26/2004

  • News

    Stand-Alone Active Directory Downloaded 15,000 Times

    Microsoft's stand-alone version of Active Directory has gained some modest traction in its eight-month lifespan. 04/26/2004

  • Knock, Knock, But No One's Home

    Quick way to check out why a Web page isn't responsive. 04/25/2004

  • Seriously, Least Access

    Run legacy apps without hitting the security barrier. 04/23/2004

  • News

    Texas D.A. Won't Prosecute Alleged Braindumper

    Judge orders assets returned; Microsoft considering civil charges. 04/23/2004

  • News

    Microsoft: EC Ruling Will Affect Companies Outside Software Industry

    Microsoft outlined some of its objections to the European Commission's ruling and penalties in the antitrust case with a seven-page paper that attempts to argue the Commission's actions represent a broader threat to other companies and industries. 04/22/2004

  • News

    Quest Updates ActiveGroups

    Quest Software this week released a new version of its tool for automatically generating and maintaining distribution lists and groups within Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory. 04/22/2004

  • News

    Assessing Your Desktop Support Skills

    Microsoft, MeasureUp team up to provide desktop support assessments. 04/22/2004

  • News

    Exploits Available for Several Microsoft Vulnerabilities

    Public exploits, which are often the precursors to widespread worm attacks, have appeared in the last week for several of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft unveiled and patched last week in its blockbuster security bulletin release. 04/21/2004

  • News

    HP Ships 4-way, Opteron-based Server

    HP on Wednesday began shipping its first four-way server based on the AMD Opteron processor, AMD's 64-bit server processor that uses the x86 instruction set. 04/21/2004

  • News

    Siebel 7.7 Welded to Microsoft Technologies

    The release on Wednesday of the latest version of the Siebel CRM application suite highlights the ongoing coopetition between Siebel and Microsoft. 04/21/2004

  • News

    OneNote Gets New Features in SP1

    OneNote 2003, Microsoft's six-month-old note-taking addition to the Office family, will get a series of new features in a service pack that Microsoft previewed Tuesday. 04/20/2004

  • Server Coexistence

    Who gave this reader the silly idea that Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 can't live within the same domain? 04/20/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Settles Class-Action Lawsuit in Minnesota

    Microsoft is moving to settle a class-action antitrust lawsuit with consumers in Minnesota, one of a handful of remaining states where Microsoft has not yet settled lawsuits alleging the company abused its desktop OS monopoly to overcharge for software. 04/20/2004

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