For help desk and desktop support technicians.
A list of terms you should know.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 10/01/2003
Microsoft’s new Group Policy Management Console is a solid—and much needed—tool for enterprise environments.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 10/01/2003
Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about application lifecycle management (ALM).
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/17/2003
Microsoft’s recently released Active Directory Migration Tool v2 offers important enhancements over the first version. One of Hewlett-Packard’s top AD experts briefs us on the improvements.
Besides amending the EULA to maintain antitrust compliance and adding USB and wireless support, Microsoft rolls up fixes for a slew of performance bugs into its latest service pack.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 09/01/2003
Build a server-based network—including a Web site and e-mail—from scratch for $2,000? For this consultant, that required resourcefulness and some “outside” help.
Administering and managing AD encompasses a multitude of activities. Although you can do the job with built-in services and tools, four powerful third-party solutions also want to help.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 09/01/2003
There is another side of the coin for IT employment.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/01/2003
These three high-end monitoring tools automate the management of networks with thousands of nodes.
- By Mitch Tulloch
- 09/01/2003
Admininstering Active Directory takes some practice. Here are 12 exercises to keep your AD skills limber.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 09/01/2003
Seeking a higher salary? The company you keep can make a bit of difference.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/20/2003
Data not published within this year's salary survey points to modest raises expected in the coming year and plans for new jobs.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/06/2003
Ecora Patch Manager 2.0 enables you to keep critical patches for Microsoft products up to date, now and into the future.
- By Joel Semeniuk
- 08/01/2003
If you were scared off by Microsoft’s licensing program announcements last year, it may be time to take another look.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/01/2003
Many people, many stories.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/2003
Patch management is no longer a luxury to have a secure network—it’s a necessity. We test six solutions to the problem of knowing whether or not your servers and desktops are up to date.
- By David W. Tschanz
- 08/01/2003
For many reasons, enterprise application security is an inefficient and expensive model. Obviously there''s no such thing as a completely secure application, but enterprises must target an acceptable level of risk.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2003
Ponder the security challenges posed by Web services, how to address them with security architecture, and what security architecture can offer going forward when XML traverses firewalls.
- By Mark O'Neill
- 08/01/2003
DataDirect''s Connect for .NET allows you to programmatically access the database entirely within the .NET Framework, to simplify database access and boost performance.