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Balancing Act

Component Load Balancing, a feature of Application Center 2000 that works in the middle tier, can help your Web and other applications scale out in a new way.

Cozying Up to Change

What can you do to help your people roll with the inevitable?

Back to School

Can academia provide the same quality of MCSE instruction as a CTEC? James attends a local community college and reports his findings.

Office Web Components Under Security Investigation

Microsoft is carrying out a security investigation into problems with its Microsoft Office Web Components, a client-side technology for making Web pages more dynamic that has come to be used in many companies' server-side applications.

Whom Do You Trust?

Active Directory’s trust model makes administration easier than NT, but also introduces the potential to do more damage. Make sure your administrators are trustworthy.

The 64-Bit Question

Itanium servers, which utilize 64-bit architecture, are ready for the datacenter. This guide can help you decide whether your company should consider adding these high-muscle machines.

After the Crash

It’s not a matter of “if,” but “when,” your system turns that particular shade of blue that makes administrators see red. That’s when you’ll need to know what your options are to bring the dead box back to life.

What's the Problem?

Our experts troubleshoot your technical problems.

Sun Joins WS-Security Effort

Notable holdout Sun Microsystems Inc. is now on the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification bandwagon.

Oracle Produces Audited Benchmark of Oracle9i Cluster

Oracle reached a key milestone this week with its Oracle9i database by producing an audited benchmark of its Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Windows servers.

Commerce Server Has Critical Flaws

Microsoft is urging customers using Commerce Server to immediately install a patch for four newly discovered vulnerabilities -- two of them involving critical code execution problems.

Domino 6 to Include Spam-Blocking Measures

IBM is taking steps to stop spam at the server, preventing users from needing to manage it manually or with spam management tools. The server-side enhancements will come in the next version of IBM's Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration server.

Security Exam Under Development

Beta testing for new MCSA/MCSE elective expected in November.

FullArmor Releases Version 3 of FAZAM 2000

One of the first essential tools to emerge for Windows 2000 and Active Directory environments got a refresh this week. FullArmor Corp. is shipping version 3.0 of its FAZAM 2000 solution for the tricky task of managing Group Policy objects.

Two More .NET Developer Exams Get Beta Tested Next Week

MCAD.NET/MCSD.NET tracks pick up speed as Web versions of the VB .NET, Visual C# .NET exams get scrutinized by testers.

Hewlett-Packard Expands OpenView Family

Hewlett-Packard this week introduced new products based on its HP OpenView IT management framework that included solutions and plug-ins for managing service level agreements, Web services and storage.

Microsoft Unveils Palladium

Microsoft is working with hardware companies to get security hardware into new systems to be used by a future version of Windows, possibly the Longhorn release, according to published reports.

Apache at Center of Security Controversy

For once, there was a firestorm in security and Microsoft wasn't at the center of it. The problem involved the Apache Web server. A vulnerability disclosed last week allowed a denial-of-service attack and even made remote code execution possible on some operating systems.

IBM Buys Directory Integration Firm

Adding another company to its integration portfolio, IBM Corp. bought directory integration software vendor Metamerge. IBM did not disclose how much it paid for the private company based in Oslo, Norway.

Make Sense of Web Service Discovery

Rumors of DISCO's death have been greatly exaggerated -- it's simply hibernating. Roger Jennings shows you how to wake the DISCO service and prepare for eventual migration to its replacement: WS-Inspection.

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