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Microsoft Foreshadows Visual Studio 7.0

ORLANDO – Today at TechEd, Microsoft hinted at some of the upcoming enhancements to the next version of Visual Studio.

Nothing But Net/Mark McFadden: Is There Hope for SOAP?

Imagine you wanted to have your applications work across any platform or network boundary: you could be running an Active Server Page application that called on the services of a Oracle database running on Unix and a Linux-based message server. Our heterogeneous world today makes these kinds of connections very difficult, but where there’s SOAP, there’s hope. At least that’s what I thought until recently.

Microsoft Releases BizTalk Orchestration

ORLANDO – In his keynote today at TechEd, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect announced the release of BizTalk Orchestration.

Microsoft Issues SOAP Toolkit

ORLANDO – Microsoft announced that it made a Visual Studio 6.0 toolkit available for simple object access protocol, otherwise known as SOAP, here at the TechEd conference.

A Niche in Time

Marketing cliché waiting to happen: Windows on Everything

Exchange 2000 Calls for a New Way of Thinking

Exchange 2000 offers new features aimed at making it a true collaboration platform.

8 Ways to Secure Exchange

Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 offer new routes to email security, but have you done all you can with Exchange 5.5?

Major Messaging on Exchange 2000

Exchange 2000 is as different from Exchange 5.5 as Windows 2000 is from NT 4.0. This feature briefing will bring you up to date on this big new release.

Active Directory by Design

Your education on AD begins with the components that deliver its services. This month: the store.

Service Station: DNS, DHCP, and WINS

In your effort to become an MCSE under Windows 2000, you'll need to understand the inner workings of these three crucial services.

Systems Engineering: Home-Built Intrusion Detection

With a bit of SQL and the NT Resource Kit, you can create a log file management system to stay on top of potential intrusions.

Best of Times, Worst of Times

Surviving these uncertain times requires continual retooling of skills.

Garbage In, Garbage Out

As long as you have users, you're going to have data entry errors. Here's how to write scripts to handle bad data with ease.

Windows 2000 at the Movies

Can a video series help you learn Win2K at the same time it prepares you for MCSE certification?

Win the Interview Game

What kinds of questions do managers ask potential hires?

Answers from Deep Inside

We've partnered with TechNet to bring you answers to technical questions from deep within Microsoft--direct from "Mole."

Lucent, IBM Partner to Provide "CyberCarriers" with Network Services

Lucent Technologies' NetworkCare Professional Services (NPS) and IBM Global Services announced a worldwide alliance to help an emerging group of service providers called "CyberCarriers" more quickly and efficiently deliver network-based services to enterprises and consumers.

Microsoft Responds Last Time to Breakup Plan

Anticipating that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson will hand down a ruling soon, Microsoft today issued one last response to the proposed breakup of the company.

Data Junction Ups its E-business Presence

Data Junction recently delivered new e-business applications for its data integration engine, DJEngine. The applications include the ability to solve content aggregation, transaction integration, and data exchange problems encountered when doing e-business integration.

"Killer Resume" Worm Latest Virus to Strike via E-mail

The "Killer Resume" worm, so named because of its disguise as a job seeker's resume, hit a number of corporate e-mail systems on Friday and its destructive path was expected to continue through the holiday weekend into this week.