Prevent Internet Information Server from being installed automatically.
Pearson VUE is offering a free re-take on select MCP exams to anyone who fails an exam between April 30 and June 30.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/06/2004
Microsoft this week opened a beta program for the second-generation version of its instant messaging server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/06/2004
IBM is entering the open beta stage for "Stinger," the code-name for the next-generation release of DB2, which is slated for availability later this year. The next release of DB2 will make it easier for DBAs to deploy, configure, maintain and optimize DB2 databases.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/06/2004
Microsoft is throwing big money at Windows Update, the company's infrastructure and technologies for distributing patches to its ubiquitous Windows software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2004
Great Scott, what's going on? Sun and Microsoft recently agreed to bury the hatchet and concentrate on integration, not instigation. Is this good news for customers? Yes and no.
Yes because it's high time someone began making an effort to make systems more interoperable.
No because when big vendors make nicey-nicey with each other, especially when lawyers are involved, it's often time to run the other way.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 05/05/2004
The 64-bit extensions to x86 instructions pioneered by AMD and adopted by Intel are leading to a "wonderful transition" to 64-bit computing, according to Bill Gates.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2004
Microsoft may be setting its sights on business users with very little, if any, development expertise.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/05/2004
Four variants of Sasser, the first major worm to exploit flaws patched by Microsoft's huge security bug fixing patch last month, were wreaking havoc on computer networks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2004
Microsoft's password complexity filter: what's wrong with it and why you might need something better.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/04/2004
Microsoft is now developing the Windows "Longhorn" server and Windows "Longhorn" client in lockstep, a change from the staggered development the company was previously pursuing for its next generation version of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2004
Microsoft provided a finish line for its lengthy process of putting out a 64-bit edition of Windows XP that will support the AMD 64-bit processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2004
Microsoft readied another preview copy of "Longhorn," code-name for the next generation version of Windows, for attendees of its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2004
Windows XP shipments topped 210 million between the October 2001 launch and March of this year, Microsoft said.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/04/2004
Build effective security moats with a defense-in-depth strategy.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 05/03/2004
Having this information at your finger tips will let you switch from one OS's help to any other.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 05/01/2004
DLL Hell is largely a thing of the past with VS.NET and the .NET Framework. But having multiple versions of the same components can be trying in its own right.
- By Jonathan Goodyear
- 05/01/2004
In an entirely new approach to product reviews, 13 loyal MCP Magazine readers detail their experiences running Exchange 2003 in production environments.
You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree.
- By Chris Brooke
- 05/01/2004
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 05/01/2004