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  • In-Depth

    Peers Helping Peers

    We solicited readers to provide us with their technical problems, and we were inundated with letters. Here are some of the more provocative problems that we put to you—the readers—to solve. 07/01/2002

  • A Study Guide for Directory Services

    An excellent study guide and good general reference to boot. 07/01/2002

  • 70-316: What's So Sharp About C#?

    Visual C# .NET. C# promises the power of Visual C++ and the rapid development of Visual Basic. But be warned: Neither it nor its exam are for the faint of heart. 07/01/2002

  • Help for the Help Desk: BridgeTrak

    Keep track of support requests with one of these packages. 07/01/2002

  • News

    Office Web Components Under Security Investigation

    Microsoft is carrying out a security investigation into problems with its Microsoft Office Web Components, a client-side technology for making Web pages more dynamic that has come to be used in many companies' server-side applications. 07/01/2002

  • Windows Insider

    The 64-Bit Question

    Itanium servers, which utilize 64-bit architecture, are ready for the datacenter. This guide can help you decide whether your company should consider adding these high-muscle machines. 07/01/2002

  • The Influencer

    Just because you don't have a "C" at the beginning of your title doesn't mean you're not influential. 07/01/2002

  • Standing Guard

    Security is a full-time job, but keeping an eye on your perimeter network can cut down the work. 07/01/2002

  • Addressing the Issue, Part 2

    This month, Chris shows you how to use an Excel spreadsheet to read and apply IP addresses and get your network connected. 07/01/2002

  • Help for the Help Desk: NetSupport TCO, NetSupport Help Desk

    Keep track of support requests with one of these packages. 07/01/2002

  • Staying on Top of What You’ve Got

    You’ve Got Files! lets you know what’s knocking on your door. 07/01/2002

  • Playing Chicken with Licensing

    Is your shoestring caught in the tractor? 07/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Automated System Recovery and System Restore in Windows XP

    Windows XP has more efficient tools for backup and recovery. 07/01/2002

  • News

    Sun Joins WS-Security Effort

    Notable holdout Sun Microsystems Inc. is now on the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification bandwagon. 07/01/2002

  • Help for the Help Desk: HelpStar 7.0 Professional

    Keep track of support requests with one of these packages. 07/01/2002

  • Fundamentals of Networking

    A solid reference to networking technologies for the novice. 07/01/2002

  • News

    Visual J# .NET Goes Gold

    Microsoft delivered the last major language for its Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment on Monday, posting the gold code of the Visual J# .NET language to the Web some four months after releasing the rest of the developer kit. 07/01/2002

  • More Bang for Your Buck

    ERD Commander 2002 can save you time by avoiding rebuilds. 07/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    Balancing Act

    Component Load Balancing, a feature of Application Center 2000 that works in the middle tier, can help your Web and other applications scale out in a new way. 07/01/2002

  • Help for the Help Desk: Track-It! 5.0

    Keep track of support requests with one of these packages. 07/01/2002

  • Certified Mail: July 2002

    BIND unbound, the benefits of obtaining an MCSD, and where Auntie gets her crow pies. 07/01/2002

  • News

    8-Node Clustering Coming in Windows .NET Enterprise Server

    Microsoft will support eight-node failover clusters in Windows .NET Enterprise Server. Microsoft made the post-Beta 3 change to support Exchange Server and multi-site, disaster tolerance scenarios. 07/01/2002

  • Back to School

    Can academia provide the same quality of MCSE instruction as a CTEC? James attends a local community college and reports his findings. 07/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    What's the Problem?

    Our experts troubleshoot your technical problems. 07/01/2002

  • Cozying Up to Change

    What can you do to help your people roll with the inevitable? 07/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    9 Troubleshooting Tactics

    A best practices guide that'll turn you into a troubleshooting efficiency expert. 07/01/2002

  • No Secrets with DSA

    Manage security with NetIQ’s Directory Security Administrator. 07/01/2002

  • In-Depth

    After the Crash

    It’s not a matter of “if,” but “when,” your system turns that particular shade of blue that makes administrators see red. That’s when you’ll need to know what your options are to bring the dead box back to life. 07/01/2002

  • News

    Oracle Produces Audited Benchmark of Oracle9i Cluster

    Oracle reached a key milestone this week with its Oracle9i database by producing an audited benchmark of its Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Windows servers. 06/27/2002

  • News

    Commerce Server Has Critical Flaws

    Microsoft is urging customers using Commerce Server to immediately install a patch for four newly discovered vulnerabilities -- two of them involving critical code execution problems. 06/27/2002

  • News

    Security Exam Under Development

    Beta testing for new MCSA/MCSE elective expected in November. 06/26/2002

  • News

    FullArmor Releases Version 3 of FAZAM 2000

    One of the first essential tools to emerge for Windows 2000 and Active Directory environments got a refresh this week. FullArmor Corp. is shipping version 3.0 of its FAZAM 2000 solution for the tricky task of managing Group Policy objects. 06/26/2002

  • News

    Two More .NET Developer Exams Get Beta Tested Next Week

    MCAD.NET/MCSD.NET tracks pick up speed as Web versions of the VB .NET, Visual C# .NET exams get scrutinized by testers. 06/26/2002

  • News

    Domino 6 to Include Spam-Blocking Measures

    IBM is taking steps to stop spam at the server, preventing users from needing to manage it manually or with spam management tools. The server-side enhancements will come in the next version of IBM's Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration server. 06/26/2002

  • News

    Hewlett-Packard Expands OpenView Family

    Hewlett-Packard this week introduced new products based on its HP OpenView IT management framework that included solutions and plug-ins for managing service level agreements, Web services and storage. 06/26/2002

  • News

    Apache at Center of Security Controversy

    For once, there was a firestorm in security and Microsoft wasn't at the center of it. The problem involved the Apache Web server. A vulnerability disclosed last week allowed a denial-of-service attack and even made remote code execution possible on some operating systems. 06/25/2002

  • News

    Microsoft Unveils Palladium

    Microsoft is working with hardware companies to get security hardware into new systems to be used by a future version of Windows, possibly the Longhorn release, according to published reports. 06/25/2002

  • News

    IBM Buys Directory Integration Firm

    Adding another company to its integration portfolio, IBM Corp. bought directory integration software vendor Metamerge. IBM did not disclose how much it paid for the private company based in Oslo, Norway. 06/25/2002

  • Make Sense of Web Service Discovery

    Rumors of DISCO's death have been greatly exaggerated -- it's simply hibernating. Roger Jennings shows you how to wake the DISCO service and prepare for eventual migration to its replacement: WS-Inspection. 06/24/2002

  • News

    Microsoft Delivers Patches for Office Apps

    Macro code-executing vulnerabilities in Word and Excel prompted Microsoft to issue a cumulative patch for the ubiquitous Office applications. 06/20/2002

  • News

    More Itanium 2 Speed Claims

    This time its Intel's close partner on Itanium, HP, claiming the big performance boost from the second-generation Intel architecture 64-bit chip. HP ran a 64-bit Windows server on Itanium 2 at a technology conference for the securities industry. 06/20/2002

  • News

    Microsoft to Restore JVM to Windows XP

    Microsoft has decided to put its Java Virtual Machine, based on an aging version of Java, back in Windows XP via the first Windows XP Service Pack. 06/19/2002

  • News

    Consent Decree Could be in Trouble

    The district court judge in the federal antitrust case against Microsoft gave her first concrete indication that the consent decree hashed out between Microsoft and the federal government may be in trouble. 06/19/2002

  • News

    Sun Makes Application Server Free

    Sun Microsystems took a page from Microsoft's book on Wednesday by making its application server middleware free. 06/19/2002

  • News

    Sybari Expands Antigen to SharePoint

    The third-party ecosystem around Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server grew on Tuesday when Sybari unveiled an anti-virus and content filtering solution for the document store in Microsoft's enterprise portal server. 06/18/2002

  • In-Depth

    Vol 1-8: Small Business Best Practices

    Here Comes IBM Big Time in SMB! 06/18/2002

  • News

    Windows 2000 SP3 in Release Candidate Stage

    For those of you anxiously awaiting Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, the suspense should soon be over. Microsoft reports that the service pack is in the Release Candidate 1 stage with availability scheduled for "this summer." 06/18/2002

  • News

    Three New Security Patches Out for Microsoft Products

    Microsoft issued a raft of new security fixes Wednesday evening. The most serious was a problem arising from an unchecked buffer in Microsoft's Remote Access Service Phonebook leaves several Microsoft business-class operating systems open to a critical vulnerability. 06/13/2002

  • News

    Vendors Continue Web Services Pledges

    Two more software vendors publicly announced their support for Web services recently. Novell Inc. and Data Junction Corp. both joined the likes of Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Information Builders as companies whose plans include support for the Web services protocols in their products. 06/13/2002

  • News

    IM Patch Reissued

    The critical security vulnerability in some of Microsoft's instant message products that prompted an analyst at Gartner to warn IT managers away from permitting instant messaging in their enterprises has reared its head again. 06/12/2002

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