Prevent Internet Information Server from being installed automatically.
Microsoft's password complexity filter: what's wrong with it and why you might need something better.
- By Bill Boswell
- May 04, 2004
This business owner’s thin-client Windows network was impregnable. Or so he thought, until he met Bob…
- By Kevin Kohut
- May 01, 2004
MBSA offers much more than updates to your network.
Having this information at your finger tips will let you switch from one OS's help to any other.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- May 01, 2004
The Windows Server 2003 rollout is rapid, according to a new survey. Key drivers are security, Active Directory and Exchange 2003.
- By Joe McKendrick
- May 01, 2004
Five tools that promise to speed and ease Windows 2003 file and print migrations. Which one is the very best?
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- May 01, 2004
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.
- By Bill Boswell
- May 01, 2004
You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree.
- By Chris Brooke
- May 01, 2004
In an entirely new approach to product reviews, 13 loyal MCP Magazine readers detail their experiences running Exchange 2003 in production environments.
- By Doug Barney
- May 01, 2004
These networks aren’t well known by many, yet they’re responsible for controlling much in our lives. And they’re not very secure.
- By Roberta Bragg
- May 01, 2004
How Exchange 2000 is like your two-year-old.
- By Bill Boswell
- April 27, 2004
Run legacy apps without hitting the security barrier.
- By Don Jones
- April 23, 2004
Who gave this reader the silly idea that Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 can't live within the same domain?
- By Bill Boswell
- April 20, 2004
Reader has trouble with DCs looking within when doing DNS lookups.
- By Bill Boswell
- April 13, 2004