SMS packages are notorious bandwidth hogs. This unique four-step method overcomes the main drawbacks you face in using SMS for software distribution.
- By John Peter Recher
- 06/01/2002
If Windows 2000 doesn't scale well enough for your enterprise, consider
solutions from the company that originated multi-user Windows technology.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/01/2002
Windows 2000 offers a number of ways to manage your servers and user applications when you aren’t, or can’t be, physically present. Come along for a guided tour, including a peek into the .NET future.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/01/2002
How do we know when we've had enough of product and certification upgrades?
User rights, disappearing MCTs and a look into the future of the MCP program.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 06/01/2002
Staying on top of your organization’s software licenses will keep you gainfully employed and out of court.
- By David W. Tschanz , with Bill Heldman
- 06/01/2002
Administrators should have more granular control over storage quotas in future versions of Windows under an agreement between Microsoft and Precise Software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/30/2002
Microsoft's collaborator on the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) released an enhanced version of the tool of its own. Shavlik Technologies this week released EnterpriseInspector 2.0 for vulnerability assessment of Microsoft environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/30/2002
The latest version of Web-to-host software from host access vendor WRQ Inc. adds support for directory services, including Microsoft's Active Directory. WRQ this week announced Reflection for the Web 5.0. In addition to the directory support, version 5.0 brings new security and scripting features.
Intel's Itanium 2 processor is supposed to break open the market for 64-bit standard-high-volume computing, and Intel on Wednesday vowed that the performance of the new chip will not disappoint when it ships later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/29/2002
German researchers uncovered a critical vulnerability in Exchange 2000 that makes the messaging server vulnerable to a denial of service attack.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/29/2002
NetIQ Corp. is shipping a new version of a Microsoft Exchange tool for helping administrators monitor and understand activity on Exchange servers across the enterprise.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/29/2002
Storage and availability heavyweight Legato Systems got its Networker software certified for the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server platform in another sign of the importance of storage management and availability software for customers of Microsoft's high-end operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/28/2002
Intel Corp. over the weekend slashed prices on several processor lines, including some Pentium III Server chips. The price cuts appeared mostly aimed at desktop and mobile processors, including the top-of-the-line Pentium 4s.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/28/2002
A software startup with a server-based technology for pushing applications down to Windows clients and running them cleanly has entered an agreement with Microsoft to extend its new solution to a Microsoft .NET-based service.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/28/2002
Scaling back its predictions, analyst firm Giga Information Group issued a report today suggesting flat spending in IT this year. Giga initially predicted modest growth for the year.
Plus news from ARMTech, FAST Datasearch, LiveVault, and Transcender
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 05/23/2002
Application Security, Inc., a New York-based development and consulting company that sells vulnerability assessment and encryption tools for a variety of database and groupware platforms, recently introduced support for SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000. Microsoft Exchange Server is also on AppSec's radar.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/23/2002
Microsoft released a patch late Wednesday for a critical flaw in Windows NT and Windows 2000 that could allow users to elevate their privileges on compromised systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/23/2002
AOL-Time Warner subsidiary Netscape Communications put out a preview release of Navigator 7.0, a version of the browser that includes tabbed browsing and built-in radio.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/22/2002