Systems Management Server 2003 hit the beta 2 phase, moving the management server further along the track for its planned September release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/15/2003
Licensing 6.0 caused a firestorm of controversy as soon as it was unveiled in May 2001. After two delays, it went into effect last August. The program eliminated popular upgrade options,
favored bigger customers and helped Microsoft grow profits from customers who are muddling through a tough economy with tight IT budgets. But there's evidence Microsoft is adjusting the program to lessen the pain for customers. Will the adjustments go far enough to restore customers' trust in Redmond?
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/11/2003
Instead of a ticket on the gravy train, Microsoft certification has become more of a step up the corporate ladder.
According to Microsoft, the 70-292 and 70-296 upgrade exams to be as long in duration as standard MCP exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/10/2003
Microsoft Press released its guide to Defining .NET Solution Architecture Exam
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/10/2003
Microsoft this week posted a free tool to help administrators manage Group Policy.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2003
Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server and Proxy Server 2.0 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to a flaw in the way services in the two products handle a response from remote clients.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2003
Three years after rolling out massive, mainframe-inspired servers for Windows and Intel, Unisys is packing the big-server technology into smaller, denser pieces that the company hopes will be more digestible for enterprise buyers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/10/2003
Microsoft's "Greenwich" project for real-time communications raised questions about whether the technologies would end up as a new server product the company would charge for or as a free add-on for Windows Server 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/09/2003
A critical flaw in the controversial Microsoft VM could allow an attacker to execute code on a victim's Windows system, Microsoft warned in a bulletin Wednesday night. The problem is fixed in a new version of the Microsoft VM.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/09/2003
Winternals launched an administrative tool for recovering failed servers and desktops that is modeled after Microsoft's Windows XP System Restore technology but takes the capability further.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/09/2003
SQL Server consolidated its No. 1 position in the 2002 worldwide OLAP market, where Microsoft's presence continues to drive down the value of the average sale. But even so, Redmond is not enjoying the kind of market dominance it has achieved in other markets, according to preliminary estimates for 2002 from the U.K.-based OLAP Report.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/09/2003
Microsoft on Wednesday reinforced its commitment to AMD's Opteron processors with an announcement that it will put out beta versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP that run the AMD 64-bit processor in mid-2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/09/2003
In an otherwise light week for infrastructure security news, Microsoft
issued a reminder to customers to beware of bogus security bulletins
that look like they come from Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/08/2003
Microsoft's fledgling SharePoint Portal Server is being renamed to emphasize its close integration with the Microsoft Office suite, the company revealed this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/08/2003
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/08/2003
Think you've got a big Exchange installation? Unisys and Avanade may have a server for you. The companies on Thursday announced a packaged offering based on the Unisys 32-processor-capable ES7000 server that can support more than 45,000 Exchange users.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/03/2003
At a recent announcement staged at the opening bell of the New York-based Nasdaq, Citrix Systems said it is repositioning and renaming its flagship MetaFrame XP product line to incorporate more robust enterprise portal capabilities. The move underpins what the company views as four essential elements of any enterprise portal environment: devices and networks, security and authentication; personalization and aggregation; and collaboration.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 04/03/2003
Citing the war and continuing economic uncertainty, analyst firm IDC on Thursday downgraded its growth forecast for IT spending in 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/03/2003