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In-Depth
Before you use MOM, brush up on the basics of enterprise systems monitoring.
12/01/2001
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In-Depth
This is Roberta; are you working?
12/01/2001
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ActiveRoles takes the tedium out of AD.
12/01/2001
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Security Advisor
When it comes to security in .NET’s Web services world, it’s going to be vital to know how each application plays its part.
12/01/2001
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Microsoft throws down the gaunlet with this exam, which tests your expertise in Active Directory, IIS, clustering and BackOffice—and that’s just the beginning.
12/01/2001
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Lots of examples help you make use of a wealth of interfaces.
12/01/2001
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With the introduction of WSH 2.0, the power and flexibility of scripting using a variety of languages is yours.
12/01/2001
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Windows XP's Peer-to-Peer Networking Wizard allows you to set up a firewall-protected network. This month, we go through the process step by step.
12/01/2001
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Windows Insider
The Microsoft Management Console—with its handy snap-ins—makes Windows 2000 management a breeze.
12/01/2001
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In-Depth
It takes a powerful server to watch over an entire network. Is Microsoft Operations Manager up to the task?
12/01/2001
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Central configuration and management options make firewalls an enterprise tool.
12/01/2001
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News
Venturcom launched a bootable NIC supporting Windows XP Embedded that gives device makers an option for creating thin client, point-of-sale and other devices that don't require hard disks.
11/29/2001
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News
Hitachi joins Toshiba and NEC as resellers of Stratus fault-tolerant Windows 2000 servers in Asia.
11/29/2001
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News
Microsoft released a beta version of an administration pack for Windows XP Professional that lets IT administrators manage Windows 2000 Server and Windows .NET Server systems from XP consoles.
11/28/2001
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News
MCSA core exam heads into beta testing Dec. 17 to Dec. 21.
11/28/2001
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News
Microsoft released Windows XP Embedded nearly two months ahead of schedule on Wednesday at the Windows Embedded Developers Conference.
The footprint of the componentized version of the operating system ranges from 4.8 MB to 70 MB.
11/28/2001
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News
Wyse Technology unveiled the first of its Windows XP Embedded-based thin clients on Wednesday as Microsoft announced general availability of the componentized operating system.
11/28/2001
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News
As hearings begin on Microsoft's antitrust class action settlement, an industry trade association urges the judge to reject the agreement involving an education giveaway as meaningless to Microsoft and compoundly anticompetitive.
11/27/2001
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News
The market for large SMP servers based on Intel processors will gain a second competitor in early December when IBM Corp. begins shipping its "Summit" systems in limited quantities.
11/27/2001
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News
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Compaq, HP and Avanade all develop knowledge worker-focused intranet offerings based on Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint and Office XP.
11/27/2001
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News
A month before the year is over, corporate anti-virus vendor Sophos declares Nimda the most problematic virus of 2001.
11/27/2001
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News
As reported in last month’s issue, Microsoft has announced a new certification that fits snugly between the MCP and MCSE credentials.
11/23/2001
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News
Once an MCSE on Windows NT 4.0, always an MCSE on Windows NT 4.0.
11/23/2001
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News
A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows Media Player could allow attackers to run the code of their choice on users' machines. A patch is available.
11/21/2001
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News
The first Microsoft network operating system to gain wide acceptance in the IT industry, Windows NT 4.0, has been officially sent riding off into the sunset.
11/20/2001
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News
Microsoft settlement agreement would give up to $1 billion to the nation's poorest school districts. Red Hat weighs in to offer its Linux OS to allow Microsoft's money to extend to more hardware purchases.
11/20/2001
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News
Gartner Inc. recommends that organizations start looking at alternatives to IIS; not everyone agrees with that assessment, however.
11/20/2001
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News
Microsoft formally released the Beta 3 version of Windows .NET Server on Friday, a few days after unveiling the next-generation operating system's feature set.
11/20/2001
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News
Analyst firm Cahners In-Stat/MDR predicts Intel will need a few more years to catch up to the capabilities of enterprise server processors produced by IBM and Sun. The market research house also predicts that Intel will keep some of its non-Xeon 32-bit server processors alive for awhile.
11/20/2001
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News
The dual-processor PowerEdge 1500c, intended for e-mail, Web serving and file sharing, ships with Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux.
11/20/2001
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News
Microsoft updated its IIS lockdown tool this month by adding templates, support for unattended installations and the ability to remove services.
11/19/2001
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A sampling of letters from the developer community.
11/15/2001
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News
IBM used Comdex to share its plans with customers for the greater-than-eight-processor Intel architecture servers it will release next year.
11/15/2001
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News
As Microsoft systems are repeatedly impacted by malicious worms, the importance of keeping up to date on hotfixes and service packs has been hammered home for IT. Fortunately, several tools are available to help with the job, and the toolsets are maturing.
11/15/2001
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News
Despite the anti-IIS hype and the recent worm exploits, many customers tell ENT they aren't considering replacing IIS. Analysts say a widespread move away from IIS is unlikely.
11/15/2001
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News
Fujitsu is wading into the U.S. application server market with the 4.0 release of an appserver its been selling in Japan for several years. The J2EE application server is generally available now for Windows in the United States. Fujitsu will bring over a Sun Solaris version later this month.
11/15/2001
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News
Symantec updated its Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) and Intruder Alert (ITA) security assessment tools. Symantec acquired both products when it purchased Axent Technologies Inc. in July 2000.
11/15/2001
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News
With the release of a new IDC report on storage market share, vendors are scrambling to claim victory. IBM Corp., EMC Corp., and Compaq Computer Corp. all have claims to the storage crown.
11/14/2001
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News
IT experts who maintain Web applications using Application Center 2000 will be able to test their AppCenter savvy beginning Nov. 27, 2001.
11/14/2001
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News
Microsoft has extended the Dec. 31, 2001 deadline for MCTs to achieve a premium certification to May 1, 2002, based on requests from MCTs and
Microsoft CTECs.
11/14/2001
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News
Microsoft claims 7 million copies of Windows XP shipped in the two weeks since it launched the new OS. Microsoft calls the number "amazing." One industry analyst who follows Microsoft shipment numbers closely says the momentum is less stunning than it might sound.
11/14/2001
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News
Microsoft released a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer (IE) versions 5.x and 6.0. The patch fixes all known IE issues -– and addresses three new vulnerabilities, as well.
11/14/2001
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News
You'd expect database giant Oracle to offer a migration program for SQL Server database customers, but Exchange customers? Larry Ellison made a play for Microsoft's e-mail server customer base this week during his annual Comdex keynote.
11/14/2001
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News
Bill Gates this week unveiled a February launch date for Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft's flagship tool to allow developers to create its much-hyped Web services-based applications.
11/13/2001
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News
Microsoft dramatically lowered the price for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and its add-on Application Management Pack this month.
MOM is a consolidated management environment for data centers based on Microsoft Windows 2000 servers and .NET family applications.
11/13/2001
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News
Unisys posted another industry-standard benchmark this week in its patient campaign to prove its CMP server loaded with 32 Intel Xeons and Windows can scale to handle the largest loads.
11/13/2001
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News
Changes in the versions of Microsoft's server operating systems mean Microsoft will push for large and medium businesses to standardize on the renamed Enterprise Server (formerly Advanced Server). Meanwhile, a new Windows .NET Web Server is supposed to compete with Apache.
11/12/2001
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News
Cypress Semiconductor purchased Advanced Systems' ActiveBatch job scheduling software to manage an implementation of i2 planning software. Cypress' director of technical operations envisions a growing role for the job scheduling tool.
11/08/2001
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News
Precise Software Solutions released a major upgrade to W. Quinn's StorageCentral SRM enterprise storage performance management suite this week that features tight integration with Microsoft's Active Directory.
11/07/2001
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News
The InfiniBand community began its fourth conference Wednesday with a new track for end users. Organization co-founder says InfiniBand products should hit the market in Q2 '02.
11/07/2001