How to find the Everyone group where you might not think to look.
- By Bill Boswell
- January 01, 2004
First, adopt a method and then take inventory.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- January 01, 2004
Stub zones can beef up your DNS infrastructure. Here’s a practical guide to when and how to use them.
- By Bill Boswell
- January 01, 2004
2003 saw lots of huge releases from Microsoft. While the coming year will be more subdued, you can be sure there’s still a lot on the way from Redmond.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 01, 2004
This requires managing expectations, data and the computing experience.
- By Mark Wingard
- January 01, 2004
Here's a minor Windows annoyance that Microsoft should send back to development.
- By Bill Boswell
- January 01, 2004
Windows Server 2003's account redirection features are nifty, but remembering that you used them can produce some mysterious problems.
- By Bill Boswell
- December 23, 2003
Eliot Spitzer, the New York State Attorney General whose office spearheaded investigations of Wall Street abuses, is working with Microsoft to punish spammers.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2003
The name WinINSTALL makes one think of packaging up applications, testing for conflicts, and automating the deployment of new software. The newly announced WinINSTALL 8 does all that, but has enough extras that its developer is looking to rebrand the tool next year.
- By Doug Barney
- December 18, 2003
Microsoft plans to release a toolset for compliance with the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act in March, the company announced this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2003
Part three of this four-part series describes a Canadian firm's
on-going, cautious efforts to evaluate the new platform for its
truly mission-critical 24x7 environment.
- By Linda Briggs
- December 18, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed plans to hold pricing relatively steady for the next release of its integration-focused BizTalk Server 2004, which is scheduled to ship early next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2003
Microsoft laid out a roadmap on Wednesday for retiring Windows 2000 Server editions over the next few years. The process starts in April for Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2003
Part Two of this four-part series profiles an organization with
30 television stations across the country and 2,000-plus employees.
- By Linda Briggs
- December 17, 2003
Microsoft on Tuesday released an open beta of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2004, the company's second-generation application management tool which is scheduled for release next summer.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2003
Moving to a major new operating system is always daunting, but
for these four companies, the switch to Microsoft’s latest OS
was well worth it. In part 1 of a four-part series, here's why
one small ISP moved for the speed improvements as well as
server consolidation.
- By Linda Briggs
- December 16, 2003
Remote Installation Services allows for easy creation of computer names containing MAC addresses.
- By Bill Boswell
- December 16, 2003
The earliest that Windows XP Service Pack 2 will ship is at the end of the first half of 2004, according to Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Microsoft's security business unit.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 16, 2003
Storage giant EMC Corp. will buy virtualization software vendor VMWare Inc. in a $635 million deal expected to close in the first quarter of 2004, the companies said Monday. The deal widens EMC's software portfolio and shields VMWare from a head-to-head battle with Microsoft, which acquired VMWare competitor Connectix earlier this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 15, 2003
The one constant in Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance programs has been change. Generally, that change has come in the form of added goodies for the program as the company realized it was alienating customers with too many restrictions for too little value and arming critics with a hot button issue.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 11, 2003