The next release of SMS, officially dubbed “SMS 2003,” will not merely extend AD—it will become one of a handful of Microsoft products to be directory-enabled; SMS 2003 will also offer significant arc
- By Mark Wingard
- 06/12/2002
Microsoft hastily issued a pre-patch workaround for a critical vulnerability involving the handling of the Gopher protocol in several of its products after parties went public with the information.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/12/2002
The company that trained Ed Garrett to be an MCSE stated that if it didn’t land him a job, it would pay him $5,000. Garrett’s got his certification, but no IT job and no $5,000.
The critical security vulnerability in some of Microsoft's instant message products that prompted an analyst at Gartner to warn IT managers away from permitting instant messaging in their enterprises has reared its head again.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/12/2002
In an effort to show the scalability of the streaming media software to be included in Windows .NET Server, Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its joint venture with NBC, the MSNBC news Web site, has been running the beta code for more than two months.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/12/2002
ASP.NET came of age this week when Microsoft posted a security patch for a vulnerability arising in some Web server farm environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/11/2002
Microsoft took a big step toward delivering the first service pack for Windows XP this week by releasing a beta version of the patch for select test users.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/06/2002
The release date for the exams is "more an issue of semantics than hard deadlines"
says Microsoft; exam releases will be dictated by the software's ship date.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/06/2002
Last month, in celebration of Microsoft's MCP program's decade milestone, we ran a contest giveaway.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/06/2002
Market research firm IDC said last week that IBM Corp. remained the number one vendor in worldwide server revenue in the first quarter of 2002. It also noted the server market shrank in terms of revenue, compared to the same quarter a year ago.
MCAD.NET/MCSD.NET candidates can begin the process toward obtaining the new .NET developer certifications. Just released: exam 70-306 and exam 70-316.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/06/2002
Microsoft fleshed out its roadmap for federated Web services on Thursday by detailing a new Windows technology for cross-company user authentication that goes by the code-name "TrustBridge."
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/06/2002
It may be a good time to firm up your organization's policies on use of the Yahoo! instant messaging client.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/05/2002
Analysts at Gartner say that most IT managers aren't keeping their houses in order when it comes to asset management.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/05/2002
Oracle put out its second release for its flagship Oracle9i database on Wednesday, and this time there's no lag for a Windows version.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/05/2002
Microsoft on Tuesday released a second beta of a tool for converting code written in Microsoft Visual J++ to the newer Microsoft C# language. The tool, called the Java Language Conversion Assistant or JLCA, is based on technology licensed from ArtinSoft, a Costa Rican company specializing in enterprise software migration and upgrades.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/04/2002
At a technology conference in Taiwan, chipmaker AMD demonstrated its upcoming 64-bit processors running in a four-processor server. It was the first time AMD had demonstrated greater-than-two-processor scalability for its chips.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/04/2002
The slippery Klez worm topped anti-virus vendor Sophos' monthly list of the Top 10 most reported viruses for the third straight month in May.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/04/2002
Administrators should have more granular control over storage quotas in future versions of Windows under an agreement between Microsoft and Precise Software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/30/2002
Microsoft's collaborator on the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) released an enhanced version of the tool of its own. Shavlik Technologies this week released EnterpriseInspector 2.0 for vulnerability assessment of Microsoft environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/30/2002