Some Group Policy tool tricks for implementing an enterprise-wide screen saver.
- By Bill Boswell
- 08/05/2003
New exams slated for release this year to feature many new testing innovations and improved security.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/05/2003
The CERT Coordination Center put out a warning that Windows 2000 systems remain vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack even after applying the critical and high-profile RPC patch Microsoft issued in mid-July.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/04/2003
Microsoft hastened to reassure the security and user community that a denial-of-service attack that took down the Microsoft.com Web site for an hour and forty minutes on Friday was not evidence of the beginning of widespread attacks based on a recent flaw in Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/04/2003
Anti-virus vendors released a flurry of warnings over the weekend about a new e-mail worm called Mimail that is spreading in the wild. Symantec rated the virus as a 3 on its threat scale, a medium ranking that puts Mimail below only Bugbear on its current list of top virus threats.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/04/2003
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 08/01/2003
Here are some tips for keeping disk consuption to a minimum and improving server performance.
Ecora Patch Manager 2.0 enables you to keep critical patches for Microsoft products up to date, now and into the future.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 08/01/2003
Windows Server 2003 installs fewer services by default, and installs others in a disabled state. Here’s a guide to what they do, and whether you might need them or not.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 08/01/2003
If you were scared off by Microsoft’s licensing program announcements last year, it may be time to take another look.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/01/2003
Many people, many stories.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/2003
How much can you handle to get secure?
Patch management is no longer a luxury to have a secure network—it’s a necessity. We test six solutions to the problem of knowing whether or not your servers and desktops are up to date.
- By David W. Tschanz
- 08/01/2003
The next version of Windows server has a code name now, but not much else. Microsoft sort of ended months of speculation at its financial analysts meeting in July by declaring that the code-name for the next version of the Windows Server will be "Longhorn" instead of the other major candidate, "Blackcomb." But Microsoft still hasn't finalized crucial decisions on the underlying issue that made the whole debate important.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/01/2003
You're responsible for soup-to-nuts implementation of a new system. Before you start, here are a few suggestions to make the project run smoothly.
- By Bill Heldman
- 08/01/2003
Windows Server 2003 has a number of differences from Windows 2000 in how it handles DNS queries. They can speed up domain construction and troubleshooting, helping you squeeze more power out of your network.
- By Bill Boswell
- 08/01/2003
What do Haskell, F# and OCaml have in common? They’re functional programming methods that can infuse your programming with new ways to do things.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 08/01/2003
For many reasons, enterprise application security is an inefficient and expensive model. Obviously there''s no such thing as a completely secure application, but enterprises must target an acceptable level of risk.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2003
Ponder the security challenges posed by Web services, how to address them with security architecture, and what security architecture can offer going forward when XML traverses firewalls.
- By Mark O'Neill
- 08/01/2003
This month, Chris takes you through a handy script that discovers and enumerates what networking protocols are installed on a host.
- By Chris Brooke
- 08/01/2003