If XP’s in your future—and the minute you buy new desktop systems, it probably will be—use these strategies to get the most out of Microsoft’s newest OS.
- By Todd Logan
- January 01, 2002
Dismissing patterns as a programming buzzword is missing the point. Recognizing them during the design phase can help you in the long run.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- January 01, 2002
Certifications are an important part of most IT professionals’ careers. Now, with more offerings than ever, which ones can help you most?
- By Keith Ward
- January 01, 2002
Finding out that .WSF scripts—based on XML—allow you to declare just about anything can be a flexible timesaver.
- By Chris Brooke
- January 01, 2002
Will Cert21’s Web-based practice exams lead you to certification success?
- By James Carrion
- January 01, 2002
Knowing how and when to use null sessions, those invisible connections, can get you out of—or into—trouble.
- By Bill Boswell
- January 01, 2002
This month, Greg and Steve address the value and importance of certification vs. good, old-fashioned experience.
- By Greg Neilson
- January 01, 2002
A TechNet article that blames the messengers, not the source, for Microsoft’s security lapses gets Auntie seeing red.
- By Em C. Pea
- January 01, 2002
Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.
- By Joseph L. Jorden
- January 01, 2002
When setting up a network, forgetting the concepts of scalability and centralized management can have costly consequences down the road.
- By Mark England
- January 01, 2002
Boot camp training, spying on coworkers, and tips for preparing for the CISSP exam.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- January 01, 2002
The ISO17799 is a group of policies that would be well worth your time to get to know.
- By Roberta Bragg
- January 01, 2002
FBI's NIPC rates the new Windows XP security hole dangerous enough to issue its own warning; Gartner says the vulnerability means the enterprise should hold off for 3-6 months in deploying XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 27, 2001
As 2001 draws to a close, Microsoft highlights the products it will roll out in 2002. Several of Microsoft's biggest launches next year will be aimed at the enterprise.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 27, 2001
Microsoft Corp. this month sued the company that is developing the LindowsOS software over alleged trademark infringement.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 27, 2001
Microsoft issued patches for two flaws affecting users of its SQL Server database. One of the flaws could allow an attacker to run code on a compromised machine.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 27, 2001
Long-time Windows advocate John Frederiksen is moving on within Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 20, 2001
An analyst at Gartner this week says the ECMA approval as standards of Microsoft's C# programming language and the Common Language Infrastructure that C# runs on will have little effect on Java.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 20, 2001
Microsoft added a security specialty Thursday to the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Program it set up earlier this year. Microsoft also positions the program as fitting into its recent initiatives to bolster security in Microsoft environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 20, 2001
Microsoft alerted users to a critical vulnerability in the Universal Plug and Play service that could lead to system compromise in several of the software company's client operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 20, 2001