Remote Installation Services allows for easy creation of computer names containing MAC addresses.
- By Bill Boswell
- 12/16/2003
Moving to a major new operating system is always daunting, but
for these four companies, the switch to Microsoft’s latest OS
was well worth it. In part 1 of a four-part series, here's why
one small ISP moved for the speed improvements as well as
server consolidation.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/16/2003
Exam 70-282, aimed at Small Business Server implementers, now available.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/16/2003
Storage giant EMC Corp. will buy virtualization software vendor VMWare Inc. in a $635 million deal expected to close in the first quarter of 2004, the companies said Monday. The deal widens EMC's software portfolio and shields VMWare from a head-to-head battle with Microsoft, which acquired VMWare competitor Connectix earlier this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/15/2003
MCSE: Security specialization exam 70-298 to be released December 15.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/12/2003
The final chapter in this four-part series discusses a global manufacturing firm’s experiences in moving from NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003, an operation with 10,000 computers worldwide.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/11/2003
The one constant in Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance programs has been change. Generally, that change has come in the form of added goodies for the program as the company realized it was alienating customers with too many restrictions for too little value and arming critics with a hot button issue.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/11/2003
Microsoft this week released an interim version of the Microsoft Customer Relationship Management product that it initially released in January and also unveiled the globalization of the product.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2003
Microsoft found no security problems serious enough to fix in December. Microsoft's new patch policy calls for all patches to be released on the second Tuesday of the month. The company announced Tuesday that it was letting the regular patching date pass without any new security bulletins and patches.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2003
Part three of this four-part series describes a Canadian’s firm’s on-going, cautious efforts to evaluate the new platform for its truly mission-critical 24x7 environment.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/10/2003
Aim is to encourage the largest corporations to consider Itanium 2-based systems rather than RISC-based platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2003
Part Two of this four-part series profiles an organization with 30 television stations across the country and 2,000-plus employees.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/09/2003
Forget who has access to which services? Find your way back with the LDAP Browser.
- By Bill Boswell
- 12/09/2003
A quick glance at MessageLabs' end of year statistics on virus activity
and an impression that's been growing since the summer gets sharper.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/09/2003
Moving to a major new operating system is always daunting, but for these four companies, the switch to Microsoft’s latest OS was well worth it. In part 1 of this four-part series, a small ISP moved for the speed improvements as well as server consolidation.
- By Linda Briggs
- 12/08/2003
While Microsoft's onetime flagship operating system is seven years old, it remains in wide use and actually got a reprieve from a planned deadline that would have ended paid incident support for the product later this month.
MCDST: Another valuable way to validate your skills for a job, or more meaningless certification alphabet soup from Microsoft?
Why is Microsoft talking up a desktop OS that's two years away from delivery? In some ways, it's by design.
A quarterly report on the state of the worldwide disk storage systems market shows we're about to cross another psychological threshold.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/05/2003
In a mid-quarter update, Intel Corp. said revenues are stronger than management had originally expected for the fourth quarter.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/05/2003