Microsoft will release a free toolkit later this week to help organizations migrate to Virtual Server 2005, the company announced Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/26/2004
Live Communications Server 2005, Microsoft's second-generation real-time communications server, is released to manufacturing and will be generally available on Dec. 1, the company said Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/26/2004
From the business wires this week: authentication solutions, enterprise-class switches and other tools to smoothen infrastructure management.
It's good to step back and get a sense of the landscape every once in a
while. Security giant Symantec Corp. offered an opportunity to do that
recently in its semi-annual document called the "Internet Security
Threat Report."
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/21/2004
Microsoft's net income rose 11 percent on strong sales in its server and tools business unit for the quarter ended Sept. 30, the company said Thursday. Company revenues grew 12 percent overall, while the server and tools business grew 19 percent.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/21/2004
In a wide-ranging discussion with Gartner analysts, Microsoft's CEO
discussed the Windows "Longhorn" wave and WinFS, competition with Linux, 64-bit prospects and software piracy.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/21/2004
"Istanbul" is Microsoft's client component for moving its Live Communications Server-based presence platform forward with telephony.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/20/2004
Use command line to configure automated CD/DVD backup.
The blizzard of Microsoft security patches last Tuesday serves as a harsh reminder to organizations still running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation that you're on your own.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/20/2004
It was an ambitious, self-imposed goal -- distribute 100 million copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2 within two months of the critical security update's release. On Wednesday, Microsoft declared success.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/20/2004
Hand-on lab provides online access to security skills lab available for limited time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/20/2004
Configuring certificates with the SelfSSL utility; plus, what NT admins plan to do with their orphanware.
- By Bill Boswell
- 10/19/2004
During a series of recent media briefings, Microsoft began to give out nitty gritty details about specific timetables for the betas, SDKs and release candidates that will lead to the next round of Windows server operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/19/2004
With the expected arrival of dual-core processors from both Intel and AMD next year, Microsoft faced a licensing dilemma -- do right by customers by charging for only the physical processors or do right by investors by wringing maximum profit from each core on the processor.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/19/2004
Intercepted e-mail can become he-said-she-said without you knowing it.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 10/18/2004
Microsoft released a technical preview of its upcoming SQL Server 2005 database on Friday at the same time as the company adjusted its timetable for delivering the next major beta, and possibly, the long-delayed product itself.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/18/2004
New integrated approach will cause quarantining technology to be delayed from the Windows Server 2003 "R2" release to the Windows "Longhorn" Server release.
From the business wires this week: storage and backup solutions, e-mail security, network management, more.
Looking for experts for advice on how to get the security certification.
Quest Software this week released a new version of its usage reporting and analysis tool for Microsoft Exchange.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/13/2004