Test out various Active Directory scenarios with Microsoft's ADTest tool.
Lawsuits claiming ex-employees violated so-called “non-compete” clauses in their work contracts by leaving one company to go to a competitor are nothing new. Microsoft has been involved in its fair share of them in the past, both for cherry picking other companies’ employees as well as to try to stop defections from its own ranks.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/20/2005
Microsoft this week delivered a new version of the Windows AntiSpyware beta.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2005
Microsoft agreed to terms to acquire FrontBridge Technologies, a provider of hosted e-mail security, compliance and archiving services. Assuming regulatory approval, Microsoft hopes to sell the FrontBridge services as a complement to its Exchange messaging server in the near term and later integrate its on-premise Exchange server with the hosted technologies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2005
HP on Tuesday announced it is cutting 14,500 jobs worldwide -- about 10 percent of its total workforce -- in an ongoing effort to bolster the computer and printer firm’s bottom line.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2005
Microsoft is working to fix a publicly disclosed flaw in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services that can lead to a denial of service attack against certain Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/19/2005
Want to learn how to work with iSCSI storage devices? Here's how to build a lab with almost no budget.
Intel is shipping a pair of new Itanium 2 processors that aim to boost the chips’ performance in compute intensive applications by increasing bus transfer speeds.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/19/2005
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against Grokster could shift responsiblity for illegal file sharing to ISPs.
From the business wires this week: authentication solutions, search appliances, an enterprise-level file exchange program and a plug-in for encrypting backed-up data.
Real Enterprise Solutions announced Thursday that it is shipping Wisdom, a new integrated change and configuration management tool for Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
Softricity is shipping version 3.2 of its SoftGrid Windows application virtualization package.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
SonaSoft began shipping its SonaSafe Exchange Standby Solution, an integrated disk-to-disk backup and recovery and disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange Server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 07/14/2005
Explore and exploit a bevy of great new features in VMware Workstation 5.0 to roll back OS changes and even create virtual machines off different system "snapshots."
Microsoft settled its legal dispute with Alacritech over the TCP Chimney networking technology for offloading network protocol processing, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal clears the way for Microsoft to deliver early next year the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003, an out-of-band feature pack that had been in legal limbo.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2005
Microsoft issued three critical security patches on its July patching day Tuesday, including the fix for a dangerous problem in the JVIEW Profiler for which Microsoft issued a kill bit last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2005
How to deploy Exchange 2003's Intelligent Message Filter on a front-end server that has a back-end cluster.
An R2 version of Windows Small Business Server 2003 will follow the R2 release of the other editions of Windows Server 2003 by 60 to 90 days, Microsoft officials said at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/12/2005
Break out of the script-writing tedium and create modular, reusable snippets instead.
Annoyed by popups? Just wail 'til you see this one.