Advocates say Oracle's bid is an attempt to acquire the customer base or destroy the company, but were excerpts taken out of context?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/02/2003
Microsoft’s recently released Active Directory Migration Tool v2 offers important enhancements over the first version. One of Hewlett-Packard’s top AD experts briefs us on the improvements.
Besides amending the EULA to maintain antitrust compliance and adding USB and wireless support, Microsoft rolls up fixes for a slew of performance bugs into its latest service pack.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 09/01/2003
Use Kent Beck's Test-Driven Development By Example as a cookbook for your next project.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 09/01/2003
Build a server-based network—including a Web site and e-mail—from scratch for $2,000? For this consultant, that required resourcefulness and some “outside” help.
See how three scripts allow for dealing with restore points remotely.
- By Chris Brooke
- 09/01/2003
It's really easier than you think.
Administering and managing AD encompasses a multitude of activities. Although you can do the job with built-in services and tools, four powerful third-party solutions also want to help.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 09/01/2003
Active Directory in Application Mode provides a way to have directory service functionality without needing a domain.
- By Bill Boswell
- 09/01/2003
There is another side of the coin for IT employment.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/01/2003
Trusts have changed significantly on Windows Server 2003, including the concept of forest trusts. Here's a primer.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 09/01/2003
Security Roles, Uniting Technology and Controlling Windows Remotely
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 09/01/2003
These three high-end monitoring tools automate the management of networks with thousands of nodes.
- By Mitch Tulloch
- 09/01/2003
Admininstering Active Directory takes some practice. Here are 12 exercises to keep your AD skills limber.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 09/01/2003
And just what do we go through on a daily basis, anyway?
Microsoft group vice president of platforms Jim Allchin says Microsoft will "do right by our customers" in the event that the Longhorn release slips into late 2005 or beyond.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2003
SQL Server 2000 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 64-bit had a great run, but it looks like Microsoft's challenge to Unix and Oracle on scalability is over for now.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2003
Two days after issuing an initial estimate of the Sobig worm damages, a U.K-based digital security firm has revised the damage estimate upward by nearly $1.5 billion and broken out the amount of damage resulting from the Sobig.F variant.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2003
Two more exams for the Core Exams: Networking Systems portion of Windows 2003 credential, as well as an upgrade exam, go live Thursday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/27/2003
Intel Corp. this week dropped prices by between 6 percent and 14 percent on most of its desktop Celeron processors, the economy chips for desktop systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/27/2003