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When Microsoft Services for Unix 3.0 came out, a highlight was its surprisingly low price tag. In a promotion running through the end of this month, the set of tools and services for interoperating between Windows, Unix and Linux is free.
12/02/2003
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Legal issues aside, here's one way to audit Exchange 5.5 user mailbox usage on the down-low.
12/01/2003
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In-Depth
UrlScan is an invaluable security tool for Web sites. Although IIS 6.0 incorporates some of its functionality, it’s still useful for IIS 6.0 sites—and critical for older versions of IIS.
12/01/2003
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Could WinFS be the salvation?
12/01/2003
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Seeing the whole picture with NetSupport 8.1.
12/01/2003
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Microsoft published a white paper on its Web site last week giving an overview of its internal security measures.
12/01/2003
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This MCSE upgrade exam will test your Windows 2003 expertise, especially in the areas of DNS, group policies, trusts and Active Directory maintenance.
12/01/2003
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Plenty to say about board certs; small tales enjoyed
12/01/2003
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Encoding scripts to prevent unauthorized access.
12/01/2003
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These features require a little work, but are worth it.
12/01/2003
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While commercial product boast bells and whistles, Microsoft's free tool gets the job done.
12/01/2003
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Windows Insider
By trying to think like an Exchange Server, you can learn the ins and outs of the SMTP protocol.
12/01/2003
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Security Advisor
Microsoft's Small Business Server 2003 is a big leap forward for security.
12/01/2003
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Brooktrout’s TruFax is Windows Server 2003-certified.
12/01/2003
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Day-to-day admin duties spelled out in detail in 285 short, narrow pages.
12/01/2003
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In-Depth
Your company is not keen on you honing your IT skills on its WAN for good reason. Building a lab is the next best thing. Here's how.
12/01/2003
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In-Depth
You're the ultimate authority for keeping your network up and running. You've carefully chosen tools that help you most and products you can't live without. Here are your choices for 2003's best of the best.
12/01/2003
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This Ecora suite documents like a dream.
12/01/2003
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How we're being tested—now and in the future.
12/01/2003
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In-Depth
Migrating servers, users and resources from Windows NT to Windows Server 2003 was a big challenge for our fictional hero. We review a number of third-party tools to help ease his pain.
12/01/2003
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In-Depth
Learn tips for handling patch management and hiding objects.
12/01/2003
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This exam covers lots of Windows 2003 ground, including new security, backup and recover, and software updating methods.
12/01/2003
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Upgrading from Windows NT 4.0/Exchange 5.5 to Windows Server 2003/Exchange 2003? Simplify your decisionmaking and choose the ADC method.
11/25/2003
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In-Depth
Gunther Lenz and Thomas Moeller give entry-level programmers an overview of the development model with a .NET influence in their book, .NET - A Complete Development Cycle.
11/23/2003
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Sybari Software launched the first utility this week for Microsoft's instant messaging and presence platform, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003.
11/20/2003
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The Mimail virus is making its way up the ranks of the most damaging viruses and worms to date, according to a security firm that keeps track of malware.
11/20/2003
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LAS VEGAS -- Comdex attracted a mere fraction of its peak attendance, but that didn’t stop Windows third parties from crowding the Microsoft Pavilion and announcing new wares. In fact, the Microsoft booth was one of the few show floor areas that drew consistent crowds.
11/20/2003
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Newest security specialist exam to go under beta testing in late November.
11/19/2003
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Microsoft began telling customers on Wednesday that Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 would be generally available on Dec. 2.
11/19/2003
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From ENTmag.com: Once the monster of all U.S.-based computer trade shows, Comdex is a mere shadow of its former self.
11/19/2003
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A raft of storage vendors have gotten their devices and host bus adapters qualified for use with Microsoft's iSCSI architecture.
11/19/2003
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A few facts about installing Exchange 2003 under older Windows versions.
11/18/2003
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Bill Gates opened Comdex reiterating Microsoft’s security messages and showing publicly for the first time several new security and spam-blocking technologies.
11/17/2003
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Softricity on Monday announced SoftGrid 3.0, an intriguing technology said to reduce most headaches associated with software installation, configuration, conflict testing, and distribution.
11/17/2003
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Windows servers and SQL Server 2000 now power some of the world's biggest production databases, according to an annual survey from data management analysts at Winter Corp.
11/13/2003
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As IBM rolled out its 16-way Itanium 2 servers this week, the company confirmed that it still plans to bring out a 32-processor system based on the 32-bit Intel Xeon processor.
11/13/2003
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Exam 70-271 also to continue beta testing to Nov. 20.
11/13/2003
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The next version of Microsoft SQL Server, code-named "Yukon," will have a completely rebuilt engine for extraction, transformation and loading of data from one source to another -- a key element of data warehousing and business intelligence operations.
11/13/2003
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Having pre-announced the official announcement of Systems Management Server 2003 last month, and having discussed the features to death in the years of delivery delays, there wasn't much left for Microsoft to do at the official SMS 2003 launch other than talk about customer momentum.
11/12/2003
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Three critical security patches are included in Microsoft's bundle of security bulletins for November. The critical problems affect Internet Explorer, Windows and the Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions.
11/12/2003
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Microsoft shareholders approved the addition of two outsiders to the corporate board of directors and a reduction in the number of committees each board member serves on.
11/12/2003
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Microsoft this week completed its first conversion of virtual machine technology acquired from Connectix Corp. into a product.
11/11/2003
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IBM joined the mid-range Intel Itanium 2 scalability party this week with the rollout of an IBM eServer xSeries 455 that scales up to 16 processors.
11/11/2003
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Based on your feedback, the issue of local admin rights isn't cut and dried.
11/11/2003
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Microsoft’s Internet Information Service continues its slide in market share. According to Netcraft, a U.K.-based consultancy that scans the Web each month for the most-used Web servers, Apache made major gains at Microsoft’s expense in the November survey.
11/06/2003
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Stung by brutal virus attack after brutal virus attack on its core products, Microsoft is fighting back with a $5 million reward fund for those that turn in virus authors.
11/06/2003
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HP this week pushed out a raft of new Intel-based servers, including a pair of Itanium servers that fill a gap in HP's 64-bit server line.
11/06/2003
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HP, Intel and Oracle crossed a psychological performance threshold this week when their Itanium/HP-UX/Oracle10g system achieved more than 1 million transactions per minute on the industry-standard OLTP scalability benchmark, the TPC-C.
11/06/2003
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Microsoft raised the stakes for virus and worm authors on Wednesday by putting $5 million into a reward fund for information leading to the arrest of malware writers. Specific bounties of $250,000 each are in place for the authors of the MSBlastA worm and the Sobig virus.
11/05/2003
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Business intelligence and analytics used to be a closed process in which a small room of analysts loaded sales figures into proprietary software or onto spreadsheets to generate reports for corporate decision makers. Now, three trends are sweeping away this process, but threaten to make the IT director’s job untenable.
11/05/2003