Microsoft this week released its long-awaited Beta 2 for SQL Server 2005, the next major release of Microsoft's flagship database that was formerly code-named "Yukon."
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/27/2004
Migration to Exchange 2000 seems to go fine, but setup comes to a screeching halt for this admin.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/27/2004
Block anonymous users from accessing confidential information.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 07/26/2004
Latest numbers show MCSE 2003 at 10,013; MCDST at 1,280.
Microsoft on Thursday announced 15 percent revenue growth, and 82 percent earnings growth for its fourth quarter compared to the year-ago period. But the company missed analyst expectations for earnings per share.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/22/2004
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is helping a new cyberforensics organization get off the ground with the contribution of a full-time analyst and $46,000 worth of software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/21/2004
Abridean advanced its user management and provisioning software this week with a new release that introduces centralized management of policies governing the granting and removing of user access to systems, data and resources.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/21/2004
Fujitsu's U.S. subsidiary this week rolled out the second server in its line of Itanium 2 processor-based systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/21/2004
Microsoft agreed to pay $20 million to Lindows to get the San Diego-based desktop Linux OS vendor to stop using a name that Microsoft contends infringes upon its Windows trademark.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2004
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/20/2004
Company executives also announced plans to issue a special one-time dividend of $3 per share and change Microsoft's regular dividend payments from 16 cents per share per year to 8 cents per share per quarter.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/20/2004
From confidentiality, integrity, and availability to authentication, authorization, and audit, find out how you can employ best practices to make Web services secure.
- By Mark O'Neill
- 07/20/2004
Choosing among the available Windows server hardware options is getting more complicated.
From the business wires this week: three new tools for ISA Server 2004, monitoring tools get updated, a freeware untombstoning tool and more.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/16/2004
The miracle of Group Policy is that you can maintain tight reins on who has admin rights.
Citing the need to incorporate user feedback and the higher priority of Windows XP Service Pack 2-related work, Microsoft pushed back its shipment target for Windows Update Services from the end of this year to the first half of next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/14/2004
Scriptable method for obtaining a list of DHCP server names in a domain.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/13/2004
Microsoft to release beta version of 70-291 exam with questions relating to upcoming Windows XP SP2, say sources.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/13/2004
Microsoft patched two critical flaws in its software in a batch of seven security bulletins released today as part of the company's monthly "Patch Tuesday." Each of the two critical flaws could allow an attacker to take complete control of a Windows computer over the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2004
Microsoft unveiled details, a name and partner support for the quarantining technology it plans to add to Windows Server 2003 next year in the update release, code-named "R2."
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/13/2004