Intel this week delivered its third-generation 64-bit processor, the "Madison" release of the Itanium 2 processor. Major server vendors including Dell, HP and IBM are poised with systems built on the higher performance chip.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/03/2003
AMD this week updated its two-month-old line of Opteron 64-bit server processors to offer chips designed for four-processor servers and eight-processor servers. The delivery means AMD has several technical building blocks in place to reach higher into enterprise requirements.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/03/2003
Several security vendors are issuing alerts that a hacker contest with the goal of defacing 6,000 Web sites will begin on Sunday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/03/2003
In partnership with Microsoft, Intel will give a customer preview of its 32-bit execution layer for 64-bit Itanium 2 processors in the beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/03/2003
Microsoft has decided to release Windows Small Business Server 2003 in two editions. The decision highlights the increasing segmentation of the Windows server line, which is now up to nine editions – roughly a 50 percent increase from the Windows 2000 generation of servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/02/2003
Systems Management Server 2003 entered its last major testing milestone when Microsoft put out Release Candidate 1 of the replacement for the four-year-old SMS 2.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/02/2003
Delivering on one of the major free, post-release add-ons to Windows Server 2003, Microsoft this week put out the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) software initiator package.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/02/2003
Forego scripting—try this LDAP query in the ADUC.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/01/2003
Three weeks after sending shockwaves through the antivirus industry with the announcement that it had bought an anti-virus vendor, Microsoft and three security partners made nice in public with an extension of Microsoft's Virus Information Alliance (VIA).
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/01/2003
Spamming the Globe
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 07/01/2003
Windows Server 2003 offers significant upgrades over Windows 2000 in the area of remote connectivity.
Securely bringing a Windows file server on the network may not sound difficult. But when it's running Windows Server 2003, there's a lot you need to know to do it right.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 07/01/2003
Can older applications and Windows XP share a network without driving each
other crazy?
Microsoft sets new securityspecializations for MCSE and MCSA titles.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/01/2003
“One thing we’ll be talking a fair bit about today is the relationship between the PC and the phone. That’s something that will be changing. When you get value added on your PC without having to switch the phone that you use simply by having the PC be aware of what’s going on, that integration, we think, is a very critical one and one that’s influencing the PC hardware.”
—Bill Gates at WinHEC 2003
It’s a moment every administrator dreads: Your network is crying for help, and you don’t know why. Wouldn’t it be great if, right in your hand, you had a tool that could diagnose the problem? We test four handheld analyzers to see just how they can make your job easier.
- By James Carrion
- 07/01/2003
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation died with little fanfare on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/01/2003
Dealing with e-mail worms and viruses is becoming a bigger part of every administrator’s job. Learn from one of the industry’s foremost experts how worms enter your network in the first place and compromise your systems.
- By Roger A. Grimes
- 07/01/2003
The first step in any project is to find out what users require. It’s almost that simple.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 07/01/2003
When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right into AD that you'll want to know about.