Advocates say Oracle's bid is an attempt to acquire the customer base or destroy the company, but were excerpts taken out of context?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/02/2003
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.
Use Kent Beck's Test-Driven Development By Example as a cookbook for your next project.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 09/01/2003
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
See how three scripts allow for dealing with restore points remotely.
- By Chris Brooke
- 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.
There is another side of the coin for IT employment.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/01/2003
It's really easier than you think.
Active Directory in Application Mode provides a way to have directory service functionality without needing a domain.
- By Bill Boswell
- 09/01/2003
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
Security Roles, Uniting Technology and Controlling Windows Remotely
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 09/01/2003
Trusts have changed significantly on Windows Server 2003, including the concept of forest trusts. Here's a primer.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 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
These three high-end monitoring tools automate the management of networks with thousands of nodes.
- By Mitch Tulloch
- 09/01/2003
And just what do we go through on a daily basis, anyway?
SQL Server 2000 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 64-bit had a great run, but it looks like Microsoft's challenge to Unix and Oracle on scalability is over for now.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2003
Microsoft group vice president of platforms Jim Allchin says Microsoft will "do right by our customers" in the event that the Longhorn release slips into late 2005 or beyond.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2003
Two days after issuing an initial estimate of the Sobig worm damages, a U.K-based digital security firm has revised the damage estimate upward by nearly $1.5 billion and broken out the amount of damage resulting from the Sobig.F variant.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/28/2003
Two more exams for the Core Exams: Networking Systems portion of Windows 2003 credential, as well as an upgrade exam, go live Thursday.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/27/2003
Intel Corp. this week dropped prices by between 6 percent and 14 percent on most of its desktop Celeron processors, the economy chips for desktop systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/27/2003