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Enforcing Stronger Passwords

Microsoft's password complexity filter: what's wrong with it and why you might need something better.

Thin Clients, Fat Heads

This business owner’s thin-client Windows network was impregnable. Or so he thought, until he met Bob…

Analyze Your Baseline Security

MBSA offers much more than updates to your network.

Install Help Files from Other Operating Systems

Having this information at your finger tips will let you switch from one OS's help to any other.

Windows Server 2003 Gains Traction

The Windows Server 2003 rollout is rapid, according to a new survey. Key drivers are security, Active Directory and Exchange 2003.

Souping Up Windows 2003 Migrations

Five tools that promise to speed and ease Windows 2003 file and print migrations. Which one is the very best?

10 DNS Errors That Will Kill Your Network

DNS is the foundation the house of Active Directory is built upon. If DNS doesn’t work, neither will your Windows network. Here are the 10 most common DNS errors—and how you can avoid them.

Delegating Rights

You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree.

Readers Review Exchange Server 2003

In an entirely new approach to product reviews, 13 loyal MCP Magazine readers detail their experiences running Exchange 2003 in production environments. 

The Hidden Risks of Process Controls

These networks aren’t well known by many, yet they’re responsible for controlling much in our lives. And they’re not very secure.

Optimizing Exchange Memory Usage

How Exchange 2000 is like your two-year-old.

Seriously, Least Access

Run legacy apps without hitting the security barrier.

Server Coexistence

Who gave this reader the silly idea that Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 can't live within the same domain?

The Island Effect

Reader has trouble with DCs looking within when doing DNS lookups.