Spam has grown out of control and is choking many corporate e-mail systems. About 24 percent of e-mail coming into corporate systems is unsolicited junk mail, a percentage projected by Radicati Group to grow to about 50 percent over the next few years. A number of approaches are emerging to help organizations get a grip.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 06/09/2003
Many Exchange administrators cite Exchange 2003’s improved spam-filtering capabilities as another attractive feature of the new messaging platform.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/09/2003
Researchers say that as many as 60 percent of Exchange seats continue to run on Exchange 5.5, even with Exchange 2000 approaching its third anniversary. Microsoft has put a lot of features into Exchange Server 2003 to entice those 5.5 users to move on up. Will it be enough?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/09/2003
Underwhelmed by the feature set of Exchange Server 2003? There’s still a bogeyman that could push you, the entrenched Exchange 5.5 user, to make the move to the new version of Exchange: The probability that Microsoft will phase out support for the aging messaging system by the end of 2003.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/09/2003
Microsoft plans to test two more exams for the MCSE on Windows 2003 track later this month.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/05/2003
Two critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 could allow code execution. Microsoft released a cumulative patch on Wednesday for Internet Explorer that fixes the flaws.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/05/2003
Microsoft confirms that CompTIA's Security+ exam has been added to the MCSA and MCSE on Windows 2000 requirements list as an exam option.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/05/2003
IBM on Thursday released a new version of its DB2 database designed to compete with Microsoft SQL Server for the fast-growing cost-sensitive end of the database market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/05/2003
Microsoft Host Integration Server, Microsoft's product for connecting Windows servers to mainframes and other so-called "legacy" systems, has seen its marketing budget killed and its development team slashed, yet the product keeps selling. In fact, Microsoft plans to ship an updated version, Host Integration Server 2004, next year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/05/2003
The patch management problem is in Microsoft's crosshairs. During a TechEd keynote, Microsoft chief security strategist Scott Charney said he has created a patch management working group inside Microsoft. Current projects include a white paper that will lay out the company's patch management strategy and an engineering effort to reduce the company's number of patch installation technologies from the current eight to two by the end of the year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/04/2003
Microsoft and VeriSign are working together to deliver what they call a "next-generation public key infrastructure platform" for delivery by the end of the year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/04/2003
Will Exchange Server 2003 support Windows Server 2003? Seems like a simple question, but with Microsoft's myriad server OS editions, the answer gets complicated. In almost all real-world usage scenarios, the answer is yes.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/02/2003
DALLAS -- Beating the drum for Exchange Server 2003's eventual launch, Microsoft on Monday at TechEd announced the availability of Release Candidate 1 of the company's flagship messaging server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/02/2003
DALLAS -- Microsoft senior vice president Paul Flessner used his TechEd keynote Monday to update Microsoft's roadmap for its enterprise products for the next four years or so. As part of a comprehensive roadmap, Flessner unveiled several milestones and new items, including Exchange Server 2003 RC1, the imminent RTM of Windows Storage Server 2003, a BizTalk Server 2004 Beta and a huge price drop in the SQL Server Developer Edition.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/02/2003
Think your organization is up to date on its Microsoft security patches? Then make sure you've reviewed the events of the last week. Since Wednesday evening, Microsoft has re-released three security bulletins for reasons ranging from quality control problems to underestimates of the number of platforms affected by a threat to underestimates of the seriousness of a threat.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/02/2003
Check your transcript — you might already be a security specialist, according to Microsoft.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/02/2003
Microsoft will pay AOL-Time Warner $750 million to settle the private antitrust lawsuit involving AOL's Netscape browser, the companies said Thursday afternoon.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/29/2003
In a move to make its Office XP products more attractive to retail customers and small businesses, Microsoft cut prices for several suites and individual personal productivity applications on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/29/2003
Microsoft on Wednesday issued a cumulative patch for Internet Information Services that fixed four newly discovered flaws in the Web server. The most serious problem affects IIS 5.0 and 5.1 and is rated "important" by Microsoft. The Trustworthy Computing-scrubbed IIS 6.0, released as part of Windows Server 2003, is unaffected by any of the flaws.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/28/2003
The definition of the Microsoft Office System on Tuesday grew to include the forthcoming Microsoft Real-Time Communications Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/28/2003