Time spent with network security auditors pointed out to Roberta the most common weaknesses in companies. How does yours stack up to her list?
- By Roberta Bragg
- 03/01/2002
ntds.dit can quickly grow flabby if you don’t work it out regularly. Let NTDSUtil be your coach.
- By Mark England
- 03/01/2002
Users can chew up disk space in seconds. Quota Server can deal with these space hungry people.
- By Rick A. Butler
- 03/01/2002
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.
- By Michael Feuda
- 03/01/2002
CheckIt Firewall locks down your computer so well that no traffic flows in or out!
- By Damir Bersinic
- 03/01/2002
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.
- By Bill Boswell
- 03/01/2002
Keep your network running from anywhere.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 03/01/2002
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.
- By Michael Feuda
- 03/01/2002
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.
- By Bill Heldman
- 03/01/2002
The value of bootcamps; what MCPs wear; Microsoft's certification retirement policy.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 03/01/2002
In a newsletter from Jan. 31, I announced a contest seeking early adopters
of Microsoft's Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator title.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/28/2002
Consultancy Gartner assigns a 0.6 probability to Microsoft spending at least $15 billion to acquire IT professional service vendors by year-end 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/28/2002
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.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/28/2002
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.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/28/2002
EMC, the 800-pound gorilla of storage, upgraded its Celerra NAS device for improved capacity and performance.
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.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/27/2002
Microsoft entered into an agreement to provide resource management functionality in its high-end Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system by licensing the technology.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/27/2002
Operating system codenamed "Jameson" will add IPv6 support and other technologies to Windows CE .NET before the next major release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/27/2002
Eight ISVs have now had their applications certified by an independent lab for tight integration with Microsoft's e-commerce server software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/27/2002
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.