Source-code control, unit testing, daily builds and bug tracking—using these support pieces daily can help you deliver robust code on a reasonable schedule.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 02/01/2003
Committed to a true Microsoft monitoring solution? Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 may be for you.
- By Damir Bersinic
- 02/01/2003
Tired of 3 a.m. trips to the office? Enjoy a good night’s rest with these five Web-based monitoring tools.
- By Damir Bersinic
- 02/01/2003
In the last of his two-part series on Windows 2000 Server installations, Bill tackles the complexities of Remote Installation Services.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2003
You know about security for networks and laptops. But what about security for hand-helds? What? You don't have a plan?
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/01/2003
Sangoma’s WAN EduKit puts experience in your hands.
- By James Carrion
- 02/01/2003
OK, so maybe Licensing 6.0 wasn't such a stupid idea after all.
This month, our columnists address the role of ethics in the IT industry.
- By Steve Crandall
- 02/01/2003
It's a confusing wireless world out there. We sort through the protocols that are gaining momentum.
- By Bill Heldman
- 02/01/2003
Chipmaker AMD will launch its 64-bit server and workstation processor, the AMD Opteron, on April 22 in New York City. The launch date synchronizes the alternative to Intel's 64-bit Itanium family with the first general release of a 64-bit Windows server operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/31/2003
IT Academy rolls out training for Microsoft Office Specialist and Microsoft Certified Application Developer certifications to participating schools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/30/2003
IIS 6.0 isn’t in final form yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in use. In fact, one of the largest managed hosting companies in the world has been using it for two years now—and not just on a test network.
A U.K.-based security firm is estimating that economic damage from the SQL Slammer worm is already over $1 billion, making it the ninth most damaging malware attack yet in the firm's estimation.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/30/2003
Microsoft .NET Passport users will get better privacy protection, due to an agreement between European Union regulators and Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/30/2003
A Microsoft legal document put a late 2004 expected ship date on the next client version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," putting in black and white what Microsoft officials have been telling partners, customers and reporters in private conversations.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/29/2003
While Microsoft has been promoting the security focus of Windows Server 2003 since delaying the operating system release in 2002 for a code review, Microsoft uncovered some specific security features in the OS for the first time last week. Newly disclosed security settings and features include details of some of the services that are disabled or running with reduced privilege by default, a Security Configuration Wizard tool that will be available this summer and new documentation for administrators configuring systems and networks for security.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/29/2003
Microsoft this week pushed back the support deadline for its Windows NT 4.0 Server products by a year to the end of 2004. So-called "extended support," which includes security support and paid incident support, will be available until Dec. 31, 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/28/2003
Fujitsu Limited late last week joined the growing number of hardware vendors building massive server systems based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor family.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/28/2003
A new ENT survey of nearly 800 organizations shows: * Active Directory migrations are progressing quickly * Microsoft has some proving to do with Windows Server 2003 * Windows XP is penetrating the enterprise.
The SQL Slammer worm, exploiting a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000 patched by Microsoft six months ago, flooded the Internet with traffic and infected about 35,000 hosts over the weekend.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/27/2003