Computer Associates this week introduced new and enhanced Unicenter offerings designed to facilitate corporate on-demand computing initiatives.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 01, 2003
Scripting help; will the "real" security expert, please stand up; and a whole lotta feedback on the "braindumper" case.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- May 01, 2003
With Microsoft issuing a service pack for its new updating tool, here's what I've learned since writing my original article on implementing and troubleshooting Software Update Services.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- May 01, 2003
When it comes to distributing software upgrades, the options are many. Which one is best for you? We test five solutions to help you make the right choice.
- By Stewart Cawthray
- May 01, 2003
Non-Windows CE-powered handhelds still have a way to go and can't be used for much more than messaging and basic remote access. Windows CE personal digital assistants, naturally, work much better in this regard.
In this second in a series, explore Wired Equivalent Privacy and Extensive Authentication Protocol.
- By Bill Boswell
- May 01, 2003
Unisys this week declared its Microsoft Datacenter High Availability Program ready to go.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 01, 2003
Rare is the company without non-Windows desktop clients. Yet getting Unix and Apple to connect to and access resources on a Windows-based network can be migraine-inducing. Here's your antidote.
These OSs work well on a Windows network when it comes to printing.
File-sharing and e-mail, however, are more complicated.
“You never leave a recession on the same technology that you entered it."
—Gordon Moore, circa 1984
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- May 01, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday put out a cumulative patch for its BizTalk Server enterprise integration products, fixing two newly discovered vulnerabilities. The most serious of the two problems could allow a attackers to execute code of their choice.
- By Scott Bekker
- May 01, 2003
No matter your job (or platform), scripting makes life easier.
- By Chris Brooke
- May 01, 2003
This month, our columnists discuss what's good (and bad) about the advancement in communication.
- By Steve Crandall
- May 01, 2003
There are special considerations when bringing up the first domain controller in the first domain of your new Windows 2003 forest.
- By Roberta Bragg
- May 01, 2003
Stratus Technologies, which makes fault-tolerant Windows servers, cut list prices for its top-of-the-line, four-way-capable SMP systems last week. The computer maker expects the price-reduction strategy will bring it more share in a growing market for high-availability Windows systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2003
Unisys Corp. is making a bid to house the standard Windows three-tier infrastructure entirely in one massive cabinet. The configuration is based on the ES7000 line of Intel-based servers that the Pennsylvania-based company has offered for the last three years.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2003
HP will begin volume shipments on Thursday of Itanium 2-based workstations with the new Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version 2003 operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2003
IBM Corp. on Wednesday formally joined the increasingly crowded list of vendors offering multiprocessor server systems based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor family. IBM's offering comes in on the low end of the current 64-bit SMP scalability range, with systems initially supporting up to four processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 30, 2003
EMC Corp. this week unveiled a large commitment to supporting Microsoft Windows technologies throughout its line of storage products.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 29, 2003
Microsoft's patch factory was running at full production last week at
the same time that the company's formidable marketing arm was publicly
launching a new operating system designed to reduce the frequency of
security bugs. This apparent contradiction isn't proof that Trustworthy
Computing is failing; instead, it's evidence that the initiative is
critically necessary. Even though Windows Server 2003 is more secure
than any previous Microsoft operating system, there will be no let up
in patching for several years.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 29, 2003