Opinion


Riding Out the Bumps

With the economy full of potholes, it’s the resourceful, the tenacious and the sociable who will enjoy the smoother road.

Active Directory Scorecard

A year and a half has passed since Active Directory was unleashed, with the promise of simpler management and significant cost savings. Harry points to other less-than-obvious benefits.

A Matter of Class

Taking an object-oriented approach to scripting can help your variable structure run like a well-oiled machine.

Scaling the Certification Mountain

As you negotiate the tricky trail leading to the summit—your Windows 2000 MCSE certification—will New Riders’ ExamGear product provide a lifeline?

Group Policy Part 3

Group Policy is all about being efficient. Here's how to get there by setting up users' Windows Setting with Administrative Templates.

The Case for XP

Convincing the powers that be to upgrade to Microsoft’s newest OS can prove tougher than getting rid of your XFL season tickets.

The Platform

One-Point Integration

BizTalk Server 2000 takes on the challenge of integrating your business’s complex enterprise application and B2B processes.

Legacy Lament

Advice about when to stay at your job and when to jump.

Outlook Automation with OLE

Via your scripts, you can add Contacts, Journal and Calendar entries with ease. No bull.

Voodoo Exchange

Moving to Exchange 2000 offers a valuable opportunity for jumpers and their more methodological counterparts to learn that permissions define possibilities and practicalities.

Get Cash Back for Passing Windows MCSE Exams

LearnKey promises a cash rebate if you pass the Win2K exams using its prep materials. Is the MasterExam product that good?

Keeping Time in Windows 2000

The Windows Time Synchronization service ensures that all your machines stay—tick for tock—on the same clock.

Tightening Telnet Step by Step

Controlling access with IPSec can help keep your vulnerable habitat safe from visitors of all species.

Get Connected with NAT

Windows 2000 makes it easy for small networks to get their share of the Net. Here’s how to implement it on those systems.

Practice, Practice — Then Pass?

Osborne states its Test Yourself MCSE practice exam books will help you ace the Windows 2000 exams. Will they?

Back to Basics

So forget about your MCSE already!

COM+ from Design to Implementation

Need to hit the ground running on technologies like COM+ and SOAP? Start with Microsoft Press' Designing Solutions with COM+ Technologies.

Digging Deeper into Group Policy

Now that you've been formally introduced, here's how to use group policies to install software and set security.

Objective Exposure

The process of automation allows you to script your way through Office applications—even Outlook. Here’s how.