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Clean Up Your Room

Two-steps to sanity ... er ... a cleaner server.

Novell's OpenOffice to Deliver Office 2007 Compatibility

Novell Inc. announced this week that its edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will offer support for Microsoft's Office Open XML format by the time the consumer release of Office 2007 ships at the end of January.

Microsoft Ships CTP of PerformancePoint

Microsoft announced Tuesday it is shipping the first community technology preview (CTP) of a new business intelligence tool dubbed PerformancePoint server.

Auditing Locally Shared Folders

Here’s a script that enumerates all shared folders on all computers in your domain.

Major Mod Mechanics

GUIs are for whimps; try DSMOD on the command line.

Third Parties Support Vista Launch

While Microsoft is busy celebrating the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, a posse of partners also lined up to announce support for the new products. Unfortunately, many of those third-party announcements are long on promises and short on details, including specifics as to when those new and updated products will actually reach market.

Squish It

A nifty batch file trick to compress those ever-expanding log files.

Vista Sales To Take Off...Slowly

While Microsoft will officially deliver the shipping versions of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to business customers on Thursday, many if not most of those same customers will wait for up to a year and a half before deploying the new operating system.

Jumping on the Appliance Bandwagon

Here are some appliances that are ready to run on Virtual Server.

BBC's Honeypot Reveals Nothing New

Also: Checking your DNS settings; bots and FUD; more.

Manage Computers in a Snap

Take the shortcut to managing local and remote computers.

Microsoft Ships Release Candidate for Windows Server 2003 SP2

Microsoft is shipping the first release candidate or RC of Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003, with final availability scheduled for the first quarter of 2007

Microsoft's Stealth Price Hike

Microsoft helps its quarter but hurts its customers by holding back details on price hikes -- more than quadruple on some products -- during the all-important October budget season.

'Longhorn' Trail Drive Continues

Microsoft execs aren't exactly shouting, "Head 'em up, move 'em out," as Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Yates character did in the '60s TV series, "Rawhide," but their long drive to bring Windows Server "Longhorn" to market continues.

Microsoft Debuts New Forefront Client

Microsoft launched the beta test of its new Forefront Client Security product that aims to help protect business desktops, laptops and server operating systems from viruses, spyware and other threats at its IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday.

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