Bagle is back and security industry insiders say new developments with the mass-mailing worm will probably cause headaches for Windows administrators all summer.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 12, 2004
Windows XP Service Pack 2, arguably Microsoft's biggest service pack yet and the company's most important security project since the Trustworthy Computing initiative, will be released in August.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 12, 2004
E-mail security and management provider Postini declared this week that its method of blocking spam e-mails based on IP addresses is proving an effective complement to content filtering.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2004
Pirated software accounted for more than a third of the software installed on computers worldwide in 2003, representing a loss of $29 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by a software industry group.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2004
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's massive 4,900-word internal memo to Microsoft employees is a major event in Redmond and for Wall Street, but it affects IT shops only marginally. $1 billion in cuts planned by July 2005. Product schedules do not appear to be affected.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 07, 2004
Use caution when setting log file limits; plus, some scripting books to check out.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 06, 2004
Microsoft released an emergency configuration update over the July Fourth U.S. holiday that for the first time gives Internet Explorer users protection against the specific vulnerabilities exploited by the Download.Ject attack.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 05, 2004
O, printer, where art thou?
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- July 01, 2004
Whether you get what you pay for in dirt-cheap servers. Plus, who's eagerly awaiting the next Windows servers? Not these readers.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- July 01, 2004
The creative, inner IT person in me can think of other ways to use that extra petabyte of storage we'll soon have at our disposal.
- By Em C. Pea
- July 01, 2004
Before you tread the path to Exchange migration, here's a look at where that well-worn path leads.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 01, 2004
Despite a resistant corporate culture, Greg and his colleagues developed a formalized change management process, which can even be adapted to smaller groups.
- By Greg Shields
- July 01, 2004
You can roll your own (pardon the pun) cracks for Windows LM passwords.
- By Roberta Bragg
- July 01, 2004
Applying registration keys en masse via scripting.
- By Chris Brooke
- July 01, 2004
Coming in October: More of the same, but more and better.
- By Doug Barney
- July 01, 2004
How new policies and procedures can help you gain control over processes, ranging from patch management to topology changes.
- By Greg Shields
- July 01, 2004
The power of this simple, useful tool is more evident when used during server consolidations or migrations.
- By Don Jones
- July 01, 2004
If you’re using Windows 2000 Server or above, chances are you’re
also using Kerberos authentication. It’s time to get to know this
three-pronged protocol and learn how to troubleshoot it.
- By David W. Tschanz
- July 01, 2004
Migrating applications is far from easy—that’s why choosing the right tool is imperative.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- July 01, 2004
It's high time you reconsider test-driven development.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- July 01, 2004