Installing Windows 2000, Part 2

Configuration of Active Directory is the second step to a successful installation. 02/01/2000

Automate the VB Build Process

A tool for the serious Visual Basic developer. 02/01/2000

Tackle the iNet+ Test

CompTIA's latest vendor-neutral certification proves your knowledge of Internet applications. 02/01/2000

Who's Responsible?

Pass off simple admin tasks to someone else via Aelita Delegation Manager 3.0. 02/01/2000

Figuring Out the Pieces of Microsoft Management Console

Microsoft set a lofty goal of creating a consistent interface to help you manage a variety of network tasks. MMC takes us partway there; here's what works— and which pieces still are missing. 02/01/2000

Who's Lookin' At You?

Intrusion detection isn’t just software—it means monitoring your network to discover attacks. Sometimes that infiltration comes from places you’d never expect. 02/01/2000

Inside Windows Installer

With the advent of this Windows 2000 tool, there’s finally a concerted effort to get .DLL hell and similar problems under control. 02/01/2000

Survive Chaos

How one company applies its understanding of the psychological issues surrounding troubleshooting to make it an efficient and painless process. 02/01/2000

SQL Around the Clock

Valuable and accurate information enabling you to excel as SQL Server database administrators. 02/01/2000

Headlines on Your Desktop

Headline Viewer rethinks the news browser. 02/01/2000

NetManage, Microsoft to Team on Babylon

Moving onward and upward from its recent acquisition of Wall Data, NetManage is partnering with Microsoft to produce a version of its OnWeb e-Business Integrator Application Server to run on Microsoft's upcoming SNA Server, code-named Babylon. 02/01/2000

Playing by the Rules

In hindsight, the finding of fact in the Microsoft antitrust case was too obvious. What's next is the real surprise. 02/01/2000

White-Coat Computer Science

Those who test products and changes before rolling them into production stand a higher chance of continued employment. Use that technical version of Darwin’s natural selection to your advantage. 02/01/2000

Systems Engineering: A Simple Plan for SMS

Preparing an SMS 2.0 installation requires people, training, data-gathering, design, and testing. Here's an approach to guide you through the entire effort. 02/01/2000

Microsoft Teams with EMC on Reliability

EMC and Microsoft announced an alliance designed to help organizations build and deploy highly reliable, available and manageable business solutions using Windows 2000 Server. 02/01/2000

X-Ray Vision

Use a handy utility called XRay.exe to scrutinize objects and understand what they can add to your scripting efforts. 02/01/2000

A Control Panel for Your Information

Drive your business with Microsoft's new Digital Dashboard. 02/01/2000

Underpowered

Possessing an MCSE certification means you probably don't need this book. It would simply be leftovers. 02/01/2000

Nice Recovery!

Executive Software's Undelete compliments your backups with another layer of file protection. 02/01/2000

Your Future as an MCSE

The changes coming to your MCSE title with Windows 2000 give you a good reason to evaluate your career plans. 02/01/2000

Win2K Design by the Book

The bottom line on Active Directory in fine detail. 02/01/2000

SMS Planning Chart

Accelerated Demise

As current electives go under the ax, MCSEs can only guess how relevant their certs may be in a year's time. 02/01/2000

Microsoft Fixes Index Server Bugs

Microsoft released a patch that eliminates two security breaches in Index Server. Both are issues of potential hacker surveillance for subsequent attacks. 01/31/2000

IBM Launches ERP Services

IBM Global Services has released its "Extended Enterprise Services" for post-ERP implementation, facilitating organizational change and training, and other services to help companies more fully leverage their investment in ERP. 01/31/2000

Unisys to Deliver Windows 2000 Services and Support

Unisys announced Unisys e-@ction Solutions for Windows 2000 services and support programs. The company’s portfolio is designed to help users plan, deploy and maintain mission-critical solutions based on Windows 2000. 01/31/2000

NetManage Cuts Through Confusion With New Emulator

With the hope of easing cross-platform communications, NetManage will ship their 3270 Terminal Emulator with Microsoft's Babylon SNA server. NetManage’s 3270 Terminal Emulator allows users to access IBM mainframes from a Windows machine. 01/28/2000

Microsoft Delivers New XML Parser

Microsoft released a preview version of its new XML parser. The new parser includes support for the W3C's latest recommendations of XSL Transformation (XSLT) and XML Path Language (Xpath) specifications for XML. 01/27/2000

W3C Issues XHTML 1.0 as Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the XHMTL 1.0 specification as a W3C recommendation. XHTML 1.0 is the publishing language that will bridge the gap between HTML and the emerging Web standard XML. 01/27/2000

Get Win2K Pro Before It Hits Store Shelves!

Get one of 5,000 copies of Windows 2000 Professional still available in Microsoft's Windows 2000 Professional Sneak Preview Sweepstakes (entry available only to U.S. residents 18 and older). 01/27/2000

Akamai, IBM to Team to Improve Web Performance

IBM and Akamai Technologies signed a strategic agreement to establish a set of services that will speed delivery of content over the Web. 01/27/2000

BindView Buys Entevo

BindView Corp. today announced that it will acquire Entevo Corp. for $125 million in a stock-for-stock swap. 01/26/2000

SCO Ships Tarantella Enterprise II

Cisco Unveils New Integrated Network Products

Quadstone, CVS Partner With CustomerConversion

Dell Launches 2 New Front-Side Bus Servers

Unisys Wins Licensee for CMP

Sterling Software Rolls Out EJB Tools

Lightspeed Releases Network Management Suite for Windows

Contiuus Offers Next-Generation Management Package

HP to Integrate New Management Software With Windows 2000

Hewlett-Packard Co. will integrate three of its network management packages into Windows 2000 environments. HP TopTools, HP OpenView and HP Web JetAdmin will all have new homes in the migration to Windows 2000. 01/26/2000

Big Blue Ships Windows 2000 Systems

January 26, 2000 01/26/2000

Microsoft Mum on Whistler

Microsoft Corp. has scrapped plans to produce a consumer- friendly version of Windows based on the NT kernel, and instead will produce a combined business/consumer OS called Whistler, according to company representatives. 01/25/2000

Microsoft Takes ClearLead in Contact Management

Microsoft Corp. today waded into the lead management market by unveiling ClearLead, a service that automates lead creation and maintenance from Web site contacts. 01/25/2000

Dell U.S., Compaq Worldwide PC Market Leaders

Dell retained the top spot in the United States PC market and Compaq retained front-runner status in the worldwide market in 1999, according to a year-end report from International Data Corp. (IDC). 01/24/2000

Trilogy Releases Network Security Solution

January 24, 2000 01/24/2000

MGE to Offer W2K-Compatible Power Supplies

January 21, 2000 01/21/2000

Zona: SQL Server Most Popular Web Database

A recent study by Zona Research found that Microsoft's SQL Server is used as the database for host-based applications by 68 percent of companies polled. 01/21/2000

Oracle to Emphasize E-Business Availability

Oracle next week will unveil a push to associate its name with e-business high availability by launching new services, introducing some products and repositioning other products. Several of the initiatives focus on Windows NT. 01/20/2000

Eye On: Compaq's Internal Windows 2000 Rollout

Compaq this week detailed its internal deployment of Windows 2000 - one of the largest deployments thus far outside of Microsoft's own internal deployment. 01/20/2000