Admin wants to do unattended installs as smoothly as possible without "faking" it.
- By Bill Boswell
- 12/14/2004
Heads shake to as why but nod to the results.
In a press tour on Friday, Microsoft senior vice president for Windows Server Bob Muglia updated the Windows Server release schedule for next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2004
Microsoft this week announced that it would hold a 2005 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in September. PDC 2003, also in Los Angeles, was a major event where Microsoft publicly introduced the Windows "Longhorn" operating system and laid out the fundamental components, called pillars, of that next-generation operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2004
Microsoft's Security Response Center is working on five non-critical security bulletins for release next Tuesday, the company said late Thursday as part of its newly public Security Bulletin Advance Notification program.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2004
Windows Server 2003 "R2" formally entered the private beta testing stage this week, Microsoft senior vice president for the Windows Server Division Bob Muglia said on Friday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2004
From the business wires this week: a firewall for education networks, a USB fingerprint reader for printing, and a man skates across the U.S. to meet Bill Gates.
Data center automation startup Cassatt says it will ship Version 3.0 of its Collage management product in the first quarter of 2005. The upcoming release will enable Collage to manage multiple tiered applications and will add support for Windows servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/09/2004
AutoProf is set to release this month Policy Maker Professional 2.0, a significant update of the company’s suite of user management extensions that plug in to Microsoft’s Group Policy Object Editor in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/09/2004
Microsoft offering many Windows 2003 and Exchange e-learning courses at discount for limited time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/09/2004
Wait long enough and disaster will strike your servers. It's time you developed an effective recovery plan.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 12/08/2004
IBM, the company that transformed personal computers from a hobby to an industry with the introduction of its PC line in 1981, will bow out of the increasingly low-margin market through a partnership with the Chinese firm, Lenovo Group Limited.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/08/2004
Fixing last week's slow file copy problem required taking bigger bites.
- By Bill Boswell
- 12/07/2004
Microsoft posted the release candidate version of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 to its Download Center on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/07/2004
HP will ship this month a new addition to the company’s lineup of OpenView Server Change and Management products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/07/2004
Just like their biological brethren, the computer kind mutate, too.
Welcome to a new column on scripting!
Microsoft shipped a lot of management tools in 2004. A few minor pieces are on the calendar for delivery in 2005, but most of Microsoft's development work these days when it comes to administration and management is focused on the plumbing that connects Microsoft products.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/06/2004
From the business wires this week: a Wi-Fi firewall, Web content management solution and more Intel Xeon servers.
Less than a month from Windows NT 4.0 Server's official end of life, Microsoft on Friday announced that it will offer custom support contracts for large customers running the aging operating system through the end of 2006.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/03/2004