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Certification Crossroads

Certifications are an important part of most IT professionals’ careers. Now, with more offerings than ever, which ones can help you most?

Cert21–Ready for Prime Time?

Will Cert21’s Web-based practice exams lead you to certification success?

Certified Mail

Boot camp training, spying on coworkers, and tips for preparing for the CISSP exam.

Study: Jobs Are Out There

There are some good tidings for those who think the slowing economy is translating to even fewer IT jobs.

The Accidental MCSE

Are you an NT 4.0 MCSE who has passed most, but not all, of the seven required exams for your Windows 2000 MCSE? If so, you may have achieved your Win2K certification without even knowing it.

Windows 2000 Defragmentation Tools

Five ways to fight the inevitable disk slowdown.

10 Golden Security Rules

The ISO17799 is a group of policies that would be well worth your time to get to know.

Gates: Windows XP Off to a Fast Start

Windows XP started out of the gate with a bang, selling more than 7 million copies in the first two weeks of its release, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in November.

The Shape of Things

Dismissing patterns as a programming buzzword is missing the point. Recognizing them during the design phase can help you in the long run.

Windows XP Playbook

If XP’s in your future—and the minute you buy new desktop systems, it probably will be—use these strategies to get the most out of Microsoft’s newest OS.

Scripting Serendipity

Finding out that .WSF scripts—based on XML—allow you to declare just about anything can be a flexible timesaver.

Heading into the Cloud

Web Services will evolve as it meets the real world.

Blind Ambition

Getting an MCSE on Windows 2000 is hard enough when all your senses are working fine. But when one of them isn’t—especially sight—the task is doubly or triply hard.

What’s It Worth?

This month, Greg and Steve address the value and importance of certification vs. good, old-fashioned experience.

Those Pesky Whistle Blowers

A TechNet article that blames the messengers, not the source, for Microsoft’s security lapses gets Auntie seeing red.

An Ounce of Prevention

When setting up a network, forgetting the concepts of scalability and centralized management can have costly consequences down the road.

Money Matters

The 2002 Salary Survey from Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine

Bugs Found to Affect SQL Server

Microsoft issued patches for two flaws affecting users of its SQL Server database. One of the flaws could allow an attacker to run code on a compromised machine.

Windows XP Security Hole Gets FBI's Attention

FBI's NIPC rates the new Windows XP security hole dangerous enough to issue its own warning; Gartner says the vulnerability means the enterprise should hold off for 3-6 months in deploying XP.

Microsoft Sues Lindows.com Inc.

Microsoft Corp. this month sued the company that is developing the LindowsOS software over alleged trademark infringement.

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