Dell this week publicly claimed the performance lead over IBM on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-W benchmark for transactional Web e-commerce.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/05/2002
BizTalk Server 2002, an incremental improvement to Microsoft's integration server, shipped on Monday with new technology for quickly distributing trading infrastructure to partners and tight integration with Visual Studio .NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/05/2002
Microsoft’s been releasing new server products at a dizzying rate for the past year. Confused by all the choices? Let us add some clarity to your search.
- By Mike Gunderloy Keith Ward, Editors
- 02/01/2002
Microsoft no longer offers the Authorized Academic Training Provider (AATP) program as of this year; company replaces it with the Microsoft IT Academy.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/01/2002
Remember the wave of dot-bomb failures? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Out of 1,139 votes, 61 percent of respondents who had migrated to Win2K had moved to Active Directory.
Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 02/01/2002
Two books from Coriolis help prep you for the same ISA Server exam. Question: Why did they do it that way?
- By James Carrion
- 02/01/2002
Application Center 2000 isn’t the best known of Microsoft’s .NET servers, but if you run a Web or server farm, it can be indispensable.
Security risks, the "right" security policy, and certification as a foot in the career door.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 02/01/2002
The Microsoft Answer for finding a needle in a haystack.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 02/01/2002
After this last lesson—which looks at the flexibility of Runtime tags—you’ll be ready to bravely face bold, new scripts.
- By Chris Brooke
- 02/01/2002
Like it or not, .NET is changing the face of development with Microsoft tools. Let us sort out the pros and cons of being an early adopter to this new technology.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 02/01/2002
BizTalk Server 2000 gets closer to B2B application integration.
- By Robert J. Shimonski
- 02/01/2002
Once you get past the onerous installation requirements, Commerce Server 2000 can help make you a player in the e-business game.
Knowing how NTFS passes down file access attributes would have helped one systems administrator avoid exile to the basement. It could do the same for you.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2002
Changes are afoot to make Active Directory more flexible.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/01/2002
Strengthen your infrastructure for serious IIS use with these monitoring and analysis tools.
- By Mike Gunderloy et al.
- 02/01/2002
Content Management Server 2001 provides a structured approach to managing
Internet and intranet site content.
- By Damir Bersinic
- 02/01/2002
U.S. pricing for Microsoft exams through Prometric and VUE testing centers has increased 25 percent, to $125.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/01/2002