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Amazing Stories

If your company's considering a migration or upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to 2000, these true tales of woe and triumph will help you make the journey fearlessly.

The Yuck Factor

IT cop? South Carolina passed legislation that might add this role to your job description.

Exchange in the Enterprise

ENT takes a look at Exchange Server one year after Microsoft released a revamped messaging and collaboration platform in the form of Exchange 2000. We find that users have been slow to migrate to the Active Directory-dependent messaging server, but that Microsoft continues to gain ground against Lotus Notes/Domino in overall seat deployments.

Narrowing the Chasm

Tying together technical knowledge and business know-how can reap rich rewards.

Charting a New Course

Converting this college campus to a Windows 2000 network has definitely been a learning experience.

Active Directory Object Permissions 101

Understanding the ins and outs of AD and object permissions is no simple task, but your efforts can help avoid catastrophe.

MOM Gets Double Boost

Microsoft Operations Manager or MOM, the newly released event monitoring software for easing management of distributed Windows 2000 environments, got two boosts Monday. NetIQ shipped its MOM Extended Management Packs, and Microsoft said its MOM Application Management Packs will RTM this week.

A Universe of Answers

When you have a narrow, specific problem that needs troubleshooting, the Knowledge Base is the place to go.

Exchange Platform Package Deals

To help ease the pain of implementing Exchange 2000, leading vendors and Microsoft partners have positioned Exchange Server 2000 as key standalone products. Most divide their offerings between small businesses with fewer than 250 employees, medium-size businesses, and larger enterprises.

Taking Notes: Exchange 2000 Plus One

In the year since the release of Exchange 2000, Microsoft has improved the reputation of Exchange as an application platform in addition to an e-mail platform. Microsoft continues to gain market share against Lotus Domino/Notes.

Microsoft Bolsters Exchange with Complementary Products

The Exchange 2000 product launch wasn't the end of Microsoft's messaging platform. Microsoft has shored up the platform by delivering a host of supplementary server software for various customer needs.

Users Reluctant to Undertake Exchange Migration but Others Like Results

Many Exchange 5.0 and Exchange 5.5 administrators confess that they’ve opted not to make the move to Exchange 2000 because of its Active Directory requirement. Some users have been very happy with the results of the migration.

Microsoft Sets Date for XP Embedded Launch

Microsoft will launch the embedded version of Windows XP on Nov. 28, about one month after the Oct. 25 launch of the general release date for Windows XP.

Legato Ports NetWorker Recovery Manager to NT

Legato Systems Inc. this week made its NetWorker Recovery Manager available for Windows NT systems.

Microsoft Patches Outlook Web Access Again

In a reprise of a now familiar scenario, Microsoft alerted Exchange 2000 administrators to the discovery of another vulnerability in Exchange’s Outlook Web Access (OWA) component that it says could be exploited by an attacker to perpetrate denial-of-service (DoS).

New York Launch for XP on Track

Microsoft will still launch Windows XP in New York City Oct. 25 despite the terrorist attacks that brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

Gartner: Consider Dumping IIS

In the wake of Code Red and Nimda, analyst firm Gartner recommends that enterprises running IIS take a hard look at switching to Apache or iPlanet.

NEC Intros Fault-Tolerant Server to U.S.

NEC Computers Inc. this week introduced its fault-tolerant server running Windows 2000 Advanced Server to the U.S. market.

Major Apps Certified for Datacenter Server

SAP and Tivoli earn certification for their applications to run on Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Baan, CA, Crystal Decisions and SAS among those in the process of getting certified, Microsoft says.

Microsoft Provides Beta JDBC Driver for SQL Server

For the first time, Microsoft offers a Java data access driver for its SQL Server database. Microsoft still evaluating whether to provide the finished driver to SQL Server standard customers or SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers only.

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