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Certified Mail, Feb. 2002

Security risks, the "right" security policy, and certification as a foot in the career door.

.WSF: The Final Frontier

After this last lesson—which looks at the flexibility of Runtime tags—you’ll be ready to bravely face bold, new scripts.

Family Inheritance

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.

What’s New with the Directory

Changes are afoot to make Active Directory more flexible.

Make Your Security Access-Friendly

Try this trick to give user the permission they need to update SQL Server records via Microsoft Access.

Is Project Management in Your Future?

This month, Greg and Steve discuss the pros and cons of taking a leadership role on your company’s next project.

Hollow Man

Knowing how and when to use null sessions, those invisible connections, can get you out of—or into—trouble.

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.

10 Golden Security Rules

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

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.

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.

Rent-A-Server

E-Labs is a good idea, but has significant weaknesses that should make a prospective buyer beware.

Taking Control

This month, Steve and Greg offer their thoughts on resumes, experience and the art of marketing yourself.

Certified Mail: December 2001

Disputing death, deputies of morality, and what's up with the MCSD.

Multilingual Matters

With the introduction of WSH 2.0, the power and flexibility of scripting using a variety of languages is yours.

Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Networking

Windows XP's Peer-to-Peer Networking Wizard allows you to set up a firewall-protected network. This month, we go through the process step by step.

And Now a Miracle Occurs

Microsoft deserves all the credit for thinking of customers.

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