It's really easier than you think.
- By Don Jones
- September 01, 2003
Besides amending the EULA to maintain antitrust compliance and adding USB and wireless support, Microsoft rolls up fixes for a slew of performance bugs into its latest service pack.
- By Zubair Alexander
- September 01, 2003
Build a server-based network—including a Web site and e-mail—from scratch for $2,000? For this consultant, that required resourcefulness and some “outside” help.
- By Jim Idema
- September 01, 2003
There is another side of the coin for IT employment.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- September 01, 2003
Trusts have changed significantly on Windows Server 2003, including the concept of forest trusts. Here's a primer.
- By Roberta Bragg
- September 01, 2003
Use Kent Beck's Test-Driven Development By Example as a cookbook for your next project.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- September 01, 2003
See how three scripts allow for dealing with restore points remotely.
- By Chris Brooke
- September 01, 2003
Active Directory in Application Mode provides a way to have directory service functionality without needing a domain.
- By Bill Boswell
- September 01, 2003
Administering and managing AD encompasses a multitude of activities. Although you can do the job with built-in services and tools, four powerful third-party solutions also want to help.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- September 01, 2003
These three high-end monitoring tools automate the management of networks with thousands of nodes.
- By Mitch Tulloch
- September 01, 2003
Two days after issuing an initial estimate of the Sobig worm damages, a U.K-based digital security firm has revised the damage estimate upward by nearly $1.5 billion and broken out the amount of damage resulting from the Sobig.F variant.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2003
SQL Server 2000 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 64-bit had a great run, but it looks like Microsoft's challenge to Unix and Oracle on scalability is over for now.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2003
Microsoft group vice president of platforms Jim Allchin says Microsoft will "do right by our customers" in the event that the Longhorn release slips into late 2005 or beyond.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 28, 2003
Intel Corp. this week dropped prices by between 6 percent and 14 percent on most of its desktop Celeron processors, the economy chips for desktop systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 27, 2003
The Sobig worm caused an estimated $5.6 billion in damages worldwide so far, according to mi2g, a U.K.-based security firm that estimates damages from malware.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2003
Microsoft formally extended a major deadline for Exchange 5.5 Server support, removing what had been seen as a subtle threat to get users to upgrade more quickly to Exchange Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2003
In the wake of one of the most active weeks for computer worms yet, Microsoft is calling attention to a little-touted new feature of Windows Server 2003 that helps administrators ensure that remote users adhere to company security policies.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 26, 2003
The Rules cache wasn't made to be broken. A better way to create e-mail filters will come with Outlook 2003.
- By Bill Boswell
- August 26, 2003
Remember spam? You know, the unsolicited commercial e-mail that used to seem like it was flooding your Inbox? That was back before the Sobig.F worm came along and outspammed spam.
One of the most confusing aspects of Windows Server 2003 for users is sorting out the differences between free add-on services and the expensive back-end servers that build on, but also partially duplicate, the services' functionality. Analysts at Giga Information Group recently put out a clear set of guidelines laying out some differences between the free, add-on SharePoint services for Windows Server 2003 versus the $4,000 Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 21, 2003