MCPmag.com reader Rick Johnson gets a good dose of Active Directory technical and certification info during the Thursday sessions.
- By Rick Johnson
- 09/07/2001
Microsoft alerted administrators to a new vulnerability in Exchange 5.5’s Outlook Web Access. Meanwhile, CERT issued an advisory about a security problem with the Gauntlet firewall.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/07/2001
Systems and application management vendor Precise Software Solutions announced on Wednesday that it had acquired Windows NT/2000 storage management specialist W. Quinn Associates Inc. in a $35 million dollar deal.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2001
IT analyst firm Gartner gives the Hewlett-Packard Co. deal to acquire Compaq Computer Corp. a better than 50-50 chance of falling through.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2001
Our intrepid conference attendee/reporter finds a product amid the marketing hype and gets up to speed on IP and Group Policies at the first official conference day.
- By Rick Johnson
- 09/06/2001
The Justice Department on Thursday told Microsoft that it will not seek to break up the company in the remedy phase. The government also decided to drop the tying claim. At the same time, the government signalled its intent to look closely at Microsoft's most recent practices -- a move that could drag Windows XP into the antitrust case.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/06/2001
Altiris Inc. on Wednesday introduced three products suites that extend the infrastructure management capabilities of organizations using Microsoft Corp.'s Systems Management Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/05/2001
With the Windows XP launch on Oct. 25, Microsoft will complete the client half of its 64-bit computing equation.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/05/2001
Server vendors are beginning to ship servers loaded with 900 MHz Pentium III Xeons again after a problem with the high-end processors caused Intel Corp. to temporarily interrupt the flow of the chips.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/05/2001
MCPmag.com invited a reader to attend the MCP
TechMentor Conference in San Francisco. We offered him free attendance in exchange for a daily report on his conference experiences.
- By Rick Johnson
- 09/05/2001
Web server monitor Netcraft documents that sites running Microsoft's IIS are substantially more locked down for security in the wake of Code Red than they were before the outbreak of the worm.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/05/2001
HP's stock value dropped more than 18 percent and Compaq's value dipped more than 10 percent as investors reacted to the news that HP would buy Compaq for $25 billion.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/04/2001
Stratus on Tuesday launched a new, low-end Intel processor-based, fault-tolerant server and cut prices on its existing fault-tolerant Wintel server. The fault-tolerant computing company now has two servers under $25,000, the price point that IDC recently identified as one threshold for volume sales in the server market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/04/2001
Windows XP Embedded entered Beta 2 Tuesday, and Microsoft representatives say the embedded operating system remains on track for release within 90 days of the general Windows XP release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/04/2001