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In-Depth
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
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An excellent study guide and good general reference to boot.
07/01/2002
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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
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Keep track of support requests with one of these packages.
07/01/2002
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News
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
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Windows Insider
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
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Just because you don't have a "C" at the beginning of your title doesn't mean you're not influential.
07/01/2002
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Security is a full-time job, but keeping an eye on your perimeter network can cut down the work.
07/01/2002
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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
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Keep track of support requests with one of these packages.
07/01/2002
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You’ve Got Files! lets you know what’s knocking on your door.
07/01/2002
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Is your shoestring caught in the tractor?
07/01/2002
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In-Depth
Windows XP has more efficient tools for backup and recovery.
07/01/2002
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News
Notable holdout Sun Microsystems Inc. is now on the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification bandwagon.
07/01/2002
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Keep track of support requests with one of these packages.
07/01/2002
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A solid reference to networking technologies for the novice.
07/01/2002
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News
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
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ERD Commander 2002 can save you time by avoiding rebuilds.
07/01/2002
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In-Depth
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
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Keep track of support requests with one of these packages.
07/01/2002
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BIND unbound, the benefits of obtaining an MCSD, and where Auntie gets her crow pies.
07/01/2002
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News
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
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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
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In-Depth
Our experts troubleshoot your technical problems.
07/01/2002
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What can you do to help your people roll with the inevitable?
07/01/2002
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In-Depth
A best practices guide that'll turn you into a troubleshooting efficiency expert.
07/01/2002
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Manage security with NetIQ’s Directory Security Administrator.
07/01/2002
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In-Depth
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
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News
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
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News
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
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News
Beta testing for new MCSA/MCSE elective expected in November.
06/26/2002
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News
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
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News
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
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News
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
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News
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
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News
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
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News
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
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News
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
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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
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News
Macro code-executing vulnerabilities in Word and Excel prompted Microsoft to issue a cumulative patch for the ubiquitous Office applications.
06/20/2002
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News
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
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News
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
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News
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
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News
Sun Microsystems took a page from Microsoft's book on Wednesday by making its application server middleware free.
06/19/2002
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News
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
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In-Depth
Here Comes IBM Big Time in SMB!
06/18/2002
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News
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
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News
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
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News
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
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News
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