Microsoft will combine Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager into a unified product called Microsoft System Center over the next few years, the company revealed in a management roadmap keynote Tuesday in Las Vegas.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2003
Microsoft will not release a new version of Application Center, the server product introduced two years ago for deploying and managing high-availability Web applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 18, 2003
AMD, continuing its quest to move the industry away from the clockspeed references in processor names that it argues are nearly meaningless, on Thursday announced a new model number strategy for its Opteron line of processors that launches April 22.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 13, 2003
A new survey of CIOs by analysts at Aberdeen Group finds that the IT executives are downgrading the amount that they expect to increase their technology budgets.
In the current survey, conducted in January, enterprises executives expected to increase technology budgets by 2.7 percent over the next six to 12 months. A similar Aberdeen survey in September had CIOs projecting their overall budgets growing 3.7 percent over the next six to 12 months.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 12, 2003
Enterprise IT needs to get tough on remote users to make sure broadband connections are secure, a new bulletin from the CERT/CC shows. The security researchers at CERT are finding an increase in reports of Windows 2000 and Windows XP system compromises due to poorly protected file shares. Attackers are exploiting weak or missing passwords on Administrator accounts on Server Message Block (SMB) file shares.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 12, 2003
Microsoft will deliver Internet SCSI (iSCSI) support in June as an add-in for Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. The driver will be free and available as a download, Microsoft said Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 12, 2003
Microsoft claims to have distributed 45,000 Beta 2 copies of Exchange Server 2003, the incremental release of Exchange 2000 Server that is expected to ship at about the same time as Microsoft Office 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2003
Microsoft is set to unveil its plans for the next version of Microsoft Operations Manager next week. The venue will be the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2003
Microsoft released the Beta 2 version of Microsoft Office 2003 to customers and partners on Sunday in preparation for a mid-year release. About 500,000 copies are being distributed.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 11, 2003
Sonic Mobility, which makes software for remotely administering Windows servers from PDAs, extended its solution this week to support remote access to the NetIQ AppManager Suite.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 06, 2003
Microsoft put its server technology for real-time communications, such as instant messaging, out for a broad public beta test on Thursday.
Code-named Greenwich, the technology was originally planned to be a part of Windows Server 2003. Last year, Microsoft pulled the technology out of the base server and announced that it would ship later.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 06, 2003
Corel Corp. this week said the next version of its flagship office suite, WordPerfect Office 11, will be available in late April. That would put Corel's worker productivity suite in users' hands a few months ahead of Microsoft's next version of Office, which is slated for release in early June.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 06, 2003
Aelita Software this week introduced an infrastructure tool to help deal with the problems facing enterprises with mature Active Directories.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 05, 2003
Next week, Shavlik Technologies will begin shipping the new version of HFNetChkPro, its product for automated, real-time management of Microsoft patches.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 05, 2003
Is spam becoming a serious problem on your Exchange servers? Messaging tools vendor GFI is offering a way for enterprises to back into anti-spamming tools without committing money up front.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 05, 2003
Microsoft will make collaboration services available for Windows Server 2003 customers sometime this year after the April ship of the base operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2003
Most editions of Windows Server 2003 will cost the same as their Windows 2000 counterparts, while the new Web Edition, which is designed to compete with Linux, will cost less than half as much as the Standard Edition, Microsoft revealed Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2003
Microsoft is claiming a groundswell of user interest in the note-taking application it is planning to add to the Microsoft Office family later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 04, 2003
.NET track changes trigger waves of response; how paper MCSEs are a benefit to IT; and more reasons to like Microsoft.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- March 01, 2003
Quick test: Have you ever used a "braindump" for exam preparation? The answer to that question may not be as simple as a "yes" or "no."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- March 01, 2003