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Get Ready for Your Audit

Time spent with network security auditors pointed out to Roberta the most common weaknesses in companies. How does yours stack up to her list?

The TaeBo Workout for Your Active Directory Database

ntds.dit can quickly grow flabby if you don’t work it out regularly. Let NTDSUtil be your coach.

Storage Quota Management

Users can chew up disk space in seconds. Quota Server can deal with these space hungry people.

Your Brief Guide to Scripting Tools: Visual KiXtart Editor 3.0

Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work.

More Protection Than You Want

CheckIt Firewall locks down your computer so well that no traffic flows in or out!

EFS: Handle with Care

The Encrypting File System, while serving a need, can also cause big headaches—especially with the XP implementation. Here’s how to do it right.

ActiveManage Extends the Sysadmin's Reach

Keep your network running from anywhere.

Your Brief Guide to Scripting Tools: Primalscript

Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work.

Infrastructure Blues

Why's the network running so slow? Where's the bottleneck? Is it hardware, software or a user? You can find answers quickly if you know your network's infrastructure.

Certified Mail: March 2002

The value of bootcamps; what MCPs wear; Microsoft's certification retirement policy.

Are You a Winner in Our MCSA Contest?

In a newsletter from Jan. 31, I announced a contest seeking early adopters of Microsoft's Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator title.

Gartner Predicts Major Consulting Acquisitions in Microsoft's Future

Consultancy Gartner assigns a 0.6 probability to Microsoft spending at least $15 billion to acquire IT professional service vendors by year-end 2005.

Unisys Demos Big Systems Running Next-Gen Chips

Unisys used the Intel Developer Forum this week to show off two of its highly scalable, Intel processor-based servers. Unisys demonstrated 32-way and 16-way systems running the next generations of Intel 32-bit and 64-bit processors. Both systems ran on beta versions of Windows .NET Datacenter Server.

Microsoft, DOJ Submit Revised Settlement

After receiving more than 32,000 public comments, Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice made changes to the proposed antitrust case settlement to answer critics who say the settlement doesn't go far enough.

EMC Updates NAS Offering

EMC, the 800-pound gorilla of storage, upgraded its Celerra NAS device for improved capacity and performance.

Compaq Sets Price Benchmark on TPC-C

The cost per database transaction on industry standard benchmarks continues to drop for Windows-based servers, with Compaq showing off the latest economy TPC results.

Microsoft Licenses Resource Management Tool for Datacenter

Microsoft entered into an agreement to provide resource management functionality in its high-end Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system by licensing the technology.

Microsoft Plans Minor Update to Windows CE .NET

Operating system codenamed "Jameson" will add IPv6 support and other technologies to Windows CE .NET before the next major release.

Two More Vendors Certify Their Apps with Commerce Server

Eight ISVs have now had their applications certified by an independent lab for tight integration with Microsoft's e-commerce server software.

BEA Offers Roadmap

Although BEA leads the market for J2EE application servers, some observers have marked BEA for death. But BEA’s slate of new development products shows the company has a clear roadmap for the future.

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