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  • Event Log Dissection

    You can use a script to compile log info into a file for closer examination. 04/01/2004

  • In-Depth

    Speed Up Your ASP.NET Pages

    Users will notice how much faster your Web pages and sites run when you apply these seven ASP.NET tips to your coding. 04/01/2004

  • Shrink ASP.NET Code by 70 Percent

    ASP.NET 2.0's new features let you create and maintain data-driven Web apps with 70 percent less code than you needed with ASP.NET 1.0 04/01/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Reporting to Ship in a Visual Studio Control

    Microsoft will make part of its new enterprise reporting technology available as a Visual Studio control that can be embedded in applications. 04/01/2004

  • VPN-ing Made Easy

    Celestix takes the pain out of virtual networking. 04/01/2004

  • Passing Exam 70-290 the Syngress Way

    This book released last year is designed to help IT pros prepare to pass the new Windows Server 2003 networking certification exam. 04/01/2004

  • Offshoring Shakes Up Developer Landscape

    Offshoring is changing the nature of what it is to be a developer today, much as HMOs have changed what it is to be a doctor. What does this mean to you? 04/01/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Claims Strong Sales for Small Business Server 2003

    Windows Small Business Server 2003 is being adopted at a much faster rate than the Windows 2000-based version of the product, Microsoft officials say. 03/31/2004

  • News

    Gates Makes Case for Progress by Microsoft on Security

    Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent an e-mail to make the case to customers and partners that the company is showing progress on security. 03/31/2004

  • News

    Gartner Still Expects Interim Windows Before Longhorn

    Microsoft is more likely than not to ship an interim client operating system before the release of Longhorn, a Gartner analyst predicted. 03/31/2004

  • News

    Test Your Exchange 2003 Design Skills

    Exam 70-285 now available for MCSE: Messaging on Windows 2003 candidates. 03/30/2004

  • News

    Gates Addresses R&D, EU Decision, Outsourcing

    In a far-ranging question-and-answer session, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates discussed his company’s R&D spending, last week’s mammoth European Commission fine, outsourcing at Microsoft -- and how he views his philanthropic spending. 03/30/2004

  • News

    Report: Microsoft Leads OLAP Market

    Microsoft consolidated its leadership position in the OLAP marketplace in 2003, but the software giant does not hold a dominant position and may slip slightly in 2004 due to continuing delays of "Yukon" and Microsoft's weak OLAP client technology, according to the OLAP Report. 03/30/2004

  • News

    HP Announces Preloaded Linux on Enterprise Desktops

    Move could significantly build momentum for the open-source operating system; IBM also announced that SuSE Linux will be a pre-loaded option across all of its eServer systems. 03/30/2004

  • News

    Mixed Bag: Gates on Windows R&D, EU Decision, Outsourcing

    Gartner's ITXpo features Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in keynote interview on Windows research spending, the EU Commission fine, and the company's outsourcing philosophy. 03/29/2004

  • Disaster Recovery, or Just Disaster?

    Simple IIS backup techniques 03/26/2004

  • News

    Windows XP SP2 RC1 Adds Features

    Microsoft made a lot of changes to Windows XP Service Pack 2 between the beta stage in December and the Release Candidate 1 version that became widely available for download last week. 03/25/2004

  • News

    Fired Security Researcher Resurfaces

    Security expert fired over controversial report that accused Microsoft of contributing to global insecurity now at Verdasys. 03/25/2004

  • News

    Corporate Error Reporting's Public Debut

    Microsoft demonstrated software to help in-house enterprise developers use Microsoft's Watson technology to improve ongoing quality and maintenance of in-house applications. 03/25/2004

  • News

    NetSky.P Mass-Mailer Makes the Rounds

    Anti-virus firms are warning users about a dangerous new variant of the NetSky mass-mailing worm that is flooding inboxes worldwide. 03/25/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Has Law on Its Side After Code Leak

    Code might be viewable, but intellectual property laws prevent its use by legitimate software companies, says expert. 03/25/2004

  • News

    European Commission Fines Microsoft $613 Million

    The European Commission on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay a record $613 million fine, offer a version of Windows that does not include the Windows Media Player and disclose to competitors the interfaces required to communicate with Windows. Microsoft will appeal. 03/24/2004

  • News

    Quotes on the European Commission Ruling

    A sampling of commentary from participants and observers on the European Commission's ruling Wednesday on Microsoft. Includes commentary from Sun Microsystems, the Software & Information Industry Association, RealNetworks, the Cato Institute and others. 03/24/2004

  • News

    Windows XP to Go One More Round?

    Possible Windows XP Reloaded to follow mid-year release of XP SP2. 03/24/2004

  • Managing User Profiles Your Way

    Better methods for managing user profiles en masse. Plus, an SBS problem. 03/23/2004

  • News

    IDC: Big Changes on the Way for Software Licensing

    More than half of enterprise software vendors are likely to change their licensing models in the next year, according to a new study by IT researchers at IDC. 03/23/2004

  • News

    Is Somebody Watching Me?

    Technology similar to the gizmos featured in the high-tech thriller "Enemy of the State" entered the everyday business application world this week when Microsoft released a new server for building location-based services into applications. 03/23/2004

  • News

    So What's Windows Storage Server for Anyway?

    Microsoft made its first overt move into the dedicated storage server space in September with the release of Windows Storage Server 2003. In a field of Windows Server operating system versions that seems to be growing by the month, the company is still struggling to define what distinguishes its Storage Server SKU from all the other versions of Windows Server 2003. The company recently embarked on an education campaign to clarify its intentions for the product. 03/22/2004

  • Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3...

    Disaster recovery plans should be part of any testing plan. 03/22/2004

  • News

    Dell Releases NAS Device

    Dell on Monday began shipping a rack-optimized Network Attached Storage (NAS) server that runs Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2003. 03/22/2004

  • News

    Muglia Promises Low Price for Virtual Server 2005

    While Microsoft isn't saying how much it will charge for Virtual Server 2005, the company is promising the price will be low. 03/18/2004

  • News

    System Center Coming This Year

    Microsoft is forging ahead with plans to offer its two flagship management products, Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager, in a package called Microsoft System Center later this year. 03/18/2004

  • News

    UPDATE: Help Desk Contest Winners

    In honor of MCDST's release, winners of help desk heroism/horror submissions announced. 03/18/2004

  • News

    SMS Feature Packs Getting Close

    A few details dribbled out this week at the Microsoft Management Summit about two feature packs Microsoft will ship for Systems Management Server 2003. 03/18/2004

  • News

    Ballmer Talks to European Commission

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer cancelled a planned keynote this week at the Microsoft Management Summit to go to Europe and negotiate with the European Commission as the antitrust case there reaches a critical stage. 03/17/2004

  • News

    Software Update Services Overhauled

    Software Update Services 2.0, Microsoft's next release of a patch management technology for small and medium organizations, is getting a major overhaul and a new name -- Windows Update Services. 03/17/2004

  • News

    MOM 2005 Enters Final Beta

    LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft demonstrated features of the new Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, which entered its final beta stage on Tuesday, and unveiled a new version called MOM 2005 Express that is aimed at smaller and medium-sized businesses. 03/16/2004

  • News

    Talking Web Services with Mainframes

    If you think that the days of the mainframe are numbered, you’ve got another thing coming. With sales of mainframes and mainframe-related software and services picking up last year, and with strong growth in the early months of 2004, it appears that reports of Big Iron’s death have been greatly exaggerated. 03/16/2004

  • Managing User Profiles

    A slap-dash solution for transferring profiles in toto. Anyone with a more elegant method? 03/16/2004

  • Educational Opportunities

    Security training, free for the asking. 03/15/2004

  • Double-Secret Forest Functional Level

    New! Windows admin tips, tricks, and secrets. First up: migration via the "interim" forest functional level. 03/12/2004

  • News

    Microsoft: Yukon Delay Won't Impact Longhorn

    The official line out of Microsoft is that delays in the SQL Server roadmap will not affect delivery of the "Longhorn" version of Windows. 03/11/2004

  • News

    Major ISPs Launch Spam Lawsuit Under New Law

    Four of the largest e-mail and Internet Service Provider companies in the United States this week launched the first major industry lawsuits under the new federal anti-spam law. 03/11/2004

  • News

    Office XP Bulletin Critical After All

    Users who use Outlook Today as default folder at risk for privilege elevation attack. 03/10/2004

  • News

    Siebel's "New" Windows-Only CRM Software

    It's a repackaged CRM Midmarket Edition. The product's lower price should appeal to small and mid-sized companies. Siebel is working with third parties to provide fixed-price integration and implementation services. 03/10/2004

  • News

    Update: Yukon, Whidbey Delayed Until 2005

    Microsoft officials said on Wednesday that the next version of SQL Server, code-named "Yukon," and the next version of Visual Studio, code-named "Whidbey," will be delayed until the first half of 2005. 03/10/2004

  • In Through the Back Door

    A routine audit of Active Directory permissions can expose this example back-ended breach. 03/09/2004

  • News

    Microsoft Posts 3 Security Patches, None Critical

    Microsoft released its monthly security patches for March on Tuesday. Three patches were released -- one for Windows 2000 Server, one for Office XP and one for MSN Messenger. None of the patches is critical. 03/09/2004

  • News

    Want to Become MCP Magazine Editor-for-a-Day?

    Become Editor-for-a-Day and help formulate editorial content for a future issue. Plus, win a free expenses-paid trip to MCP TechMentor! 03/09/2004

  • RSA Musings

    Something old, something new, something quite innovative at this year's security show. 03/08/2004

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