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System Administrator Appreciation Day

You rescue the network from a server failure and what do you get? Maybe a pat on the back...

Windows XP, Hailstorm Face Privacy Challenge in FTC

Privacy watchdog groups filed a complaint Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission challenging Microsoft's attempts to integrate Windows XP, Passport and eventually Hailstorm.

Quest Turns Spotlight on Active Directory

Quest expanded the range of tools for managing Windows 2000 Active Directory environments this week with a diagnostic module for Microsoft's directory service.

Terminal Services at Risk for DoS Attack

Microsoft issued a fix to patch a Terminal Services bug that makes Windows servers vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.

IBM Earns W2K Datacenter Certification for DB2 7.2

IBM became the first application vendor aside from Microsoft to earn the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server logo with the recent certification of its DB2 Universal Database version 7.2.

Column/Microsoft Stays As One – Maybe That’s Too Bad

Columnist Joseph McKendrick asks "what if?" as the possibility of a Microsoft breakup in the antitrust case recedes.

HP to Buy Storage Virtualization Company

Hewlett-Packard Co. bought storage company StorageApps in a stock-for-stock deal valued at $350 million.

Maxtor Ships Windows-Powered NAS Filer

Maxtor Corp. launched a 400-GB, 1U file server this week based on Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server Appliance Kit.

Microsoft Acknowledges Problem with Services for Unix

Microsoft patched a memory leak in its Unix interoperability software that an attacker could exploit to take down a Windows server.

Senator Calls for Hearings on Windows XP

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is calling for senate hearings on Windows XP, and is urging antitrust officials to delay the client OS's release unless PC manufacturers and consumers can choose their media player, messenger service and other software in addition to the browser.

VMWare Unveils Virtual Machine for NT/W2K

VMWare Inc. unveiled a new version of its virtual machine application software – dubbed GSX Server – for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 platforms.

Kernel-Mode Caching Should Add Speed in IIS 6.0

Internet Information Services 6.0 boasts a new kernel-mode caching capability that could greatly enhance the Web server's performance.

Microsoft Intros Academic Version of Visual Studio

The .NET generation of Visual Studio gained a third flavor this week with the introduction of Visual Studio .NET Academic.

Active Directory Guides Available

"Best practices" papers now available on Microsoft's Windows 2000 resources site.

Microsoft Credits W2K, Enterprise Servers for Record Revenues

Microsoft attributed its ability to rake in money during a financial quarter when many companies struggled to the growing acceptance of its business software.

Oracle Highlights Content Management in 9i

Oracle this week formally signalled its intentions to wade into what it calls "content management."

MCSE Exams Discount Extended One More Month

Selected MCSE core and electives exams available for 25-percent until end of September.

Microsoft Petitions Appeals Court for Rehearing

Even as the government tries to hurry the antitrust case back into U.S. District Court, Microsoft Corp. moved to keep the action in the U.S. Court of Appeals for a little while longer.

Windows XP Gives Java the Boot

Microsoft is stripping Java support from its forthcoming Windows XP operating system.

MOM Goes Into General Availability

Microsoft Operations Manager hit general availability Wednesday. The NetIQ-licensed technology complements Systems Management Server and the Active Directory for managing Microsoft environments.

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