Patch management is no longer a luxury to have a secure network—it’s a necessity. We test six solutions to the problem of knowing whether or not your servers and desktops are up to date.
- By David W. Tschanz
- August 01, 2003
Four forests or one? Four domains or one? The best AD design strives for simple and secure administration.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 29, 2003
Get the exact time that Windows processes via the WMIC command.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 23, 2003
Quick lesson on configuring subnet addresses.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 16, 2003
Use Winscl to find out which computers your users are logged onto.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 08, 2003
Anthony wanted to run Windows DNS on his company’s BIND network. It worked—until the intern came along.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 01, 2003
Windows Server 2003 offers significant upgrades over Windows 2000 in the area of remote connectivity.
- By Don Jones
- July 01, 2003
Straight talk on meshing your enterprise e-mail systems.
- By Bill Heldman
- July 01, 2003
Dealing with e-mail worms and viruses is becoming a bigger part of every administrator’s job. Learn from one of the industry’s foremost experts how worms enter your network in the first place and compromise your systems.
- By Roger A. Grimes
- July 01, 2003
Spamming the Globe
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- July 01, 2003
Securely bringing a Windows file server on the network may not sound difficult. But when it's running Windows Server 2003, there's a lot you need to know to do it right.
- By Roberta Bragg
- July 01, 2003
It’s a moment every administrator dreads: Your network is crying for help, and you don’t know why. Wouldn’t it be great if, right in your hand, you had a tool that could diagnose the problem? We test four handheld analyzers to see just how they can make your job easier.
- By James Carrion
- July 01, 2003
Forego scripting—try this LDAP query in the ADUC.
- By Bill Boswell
- July 01, 2003
Can older applications and Windows XP share a network without driving each
other crazy?
- By Todd Logan
- July 01, 2003
Microsoft sets new securityspecializations for MCSE and MCSA titles.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- July 01, 2003