It's been a year since Microsoft launched Windows Server 2003. To find out how it's going, <i>ENTmag.com</i> and <i>Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine</i> recently launched a survey of readers like you. What did you tell us? Adoption is moving along pretty quickly.
Qualified MCSD candidates can take new security-based developer exams for free; exams set for April 21 beta testing.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/12/2004
Ports are a good way in, and often remain unchecked.
</i>MCP Magazine<i> asked Stephen Toulouse, security program manager, Microsoft Security Response Center, about the flaw and resulting controversy about the time delay.
</i>MCP Magazine<i>'s TechMentor lured hundreds of Windows IT professionals to the bayou for five days of in-depth learning, product demos, networking, and plenty of fancy eating.
Completed: Kentucky Education migrates, streamlines NT 4.0 systems to Windows Server 2003.
NEW YORK -- Microsoft kicked off its 20-city, two-month security tour this week with back-to-back summits here.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/07/2004
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac will be released to manufacturing on April 14, Microsoft said this week. General availability is planned for the third week in May.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/07/2004
Broadening its commitment to the use of its platform for increasingly sophisticated storage scenarios, Microsoft this week unveiled several new Windows Server 2003 add-ons.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/07/2004
As commercial versions of Linux climb the enterprise ladder, cost will become more of an issue with the open source operating system, according to a Gartner analyst.
- By Linda Briggs
- 04/06/2004
Gartner's lead analyst on Windows server operating systems weighed in at the market research house's major IT conference last week on what form an updated release of Windows Server 2003 might take.
- By Linda Briggs
- 04/06/2004
SAN DIEGO -- Although Bill Gates pointedly avoided confirming it here, Microsoft is more likely than not to ship an interim client operating system before the release of Longhorn, a Gartner analyst predicted.
- By Linda Briggs
- 04/01/2004
The hobbyist/part-time programmer is becoming an endangered species. However, we as an industry need the skills this person provides.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 04/01/2004
Roger Jennings and a reader acknowledge that using the SQLXML interface to provide HTTP access to SQL Server is not appropriate for high-performance enterprise solutions.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2004
How to move the default directories created by IIS from the system drive. Plus, methods to make FTP more secure.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 04/01/2004
ASP.NET 2.0's new features let you create and maintain data-driven Web apps with 70 percent less code than you needed with ASP.NET 1.0
- By Thiru Thangarathinam
- 04/01/2004
Use FTP or HTTP POST to transfer files over the Internet with .NET. Also learn how to secure a database Connection string.
Create a shared database to provide interoperability between .NET and J2EE platforms, then extend it with a notification level between platforms.
Software Restriction Policies is a terrific new security tool—if you know what it can’t do, as well as what it can.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 04/01/2004
Knowing what’s in your Event Logs is a key to knowing what your servers are doing. Here’s how to make sense of them.
- By Derek Melber
- 04/01/2004