Microsoft on Tuesday provided the first version of the malicious software removal tool that it first promised last week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/11/2005
How to give users more control with what they can see and edit in Exchange's Global Address list.
- By Bill Boswell
- 01/11/2005
There was a flurry of discussion regarding a possible WINS
worm due to a spike in WINS port 42 traffic.
Operating in the gray area between support and non-support, Microsoft chose to freely distribute the one new security bulletin that affected Windows NT Server 4.0 on Tuesday, 11 days after official support of the operating system expired.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/11/2005
Microsoft released three security bulletins for Windows on Tuesday, its monthly date for patching security problems. Two of the security bulletins involve critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a user's system over the Internet. The patches are especially important because both critical vulnerabilities had already been publicly disclosed.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/11/2005
Not a spectacular entry, but it's a start.
From the business wires this week: Microsoft's antispyware, Xbox 2, management solutions, developer tools and a portable magneto-optical drive.
Microsoft will post three security bulletins for flaws in Windows next Tuesday. At least one of the bulletins will cover a critical flaw.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/06/2005
ThinPrint is shipping its .print Remote Desktop Printing Engine for Microsoft Terminal Services 2003. The product is the newest in its line of printing solutions for Windows terminal services users.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/06/2005
Call for Comments: Redmond wants to know what value you place on Software Assurance.
Microsoft offered a widespread beta of a new anti-spyware tool for Windows users on Thursday. The availability of the software marked an extremely quick rebranding and rerelease of the anti-spyware technology Microsoft purchased last month from Giant Company Software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/06/2005
Speed up DC deployment with a simple GC script.
Microsoft will no longer support Intel's high-end Itanium 2 processor in workstation and low-end server operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/05/2005
Over the holidays, VMware began beta testing Workstation 5, the latest update to the company’s five-year-old desktop virtualization platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/05/2005
The clock is ticking for California businesses and consumers to make claims in the largest of the class-action lawsuit settlement agreements resulting from the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/05/2005
Eleven of 11 admins agree that auditors don't know jack about DCs.
- By Bill Boswell
- 01/04/2005
Turn to HTAs to give your scripts that Windows-like feel, without the programming overhead.
Security will finally make inroads into the minds of average consumers.
IT admins should be equally concerned that their jobs might be done from the remote reaches, where labor comes cheaper.
Output the screen resolutions for your network's computers with a simple admin tool.