By Paul Thurrott
If you're migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7, here are some application compatibility issues you need to consider.
By Paul Thurrott
Yes, Microsoft's virtualization solutions are still years behind what VMware is doing, but VMware shouldn't rest easy.
By Karen Bemowski
In the Reader to Reader "Tool Time" column, readers recommend free tools that they've used. Here's what they're recommending.
By Paul Robichaux
Database availability groups (DAGs) in Exchange 2010 offer the possibility of running your organization without routine backups, but the cost of implementing DAGs and the recommendation to use circular logging might put some admins off the idea.
By B. K. Winstead
Is a touch screen necessary in a business smartphone? How about a slide-out QWERTY keyboard? What are the features you think are absolutely necessary?
By Alex Pournelle
The Computer Telephony business is dead serious in its quest to offer products and services that feature the best of both worlds from which it was born: the phone and computer industries.
By Michael P. Deignan
With this PowerPlay add-on, you can publish PowerCubes on the Web.
By Michael P. Deignan
Move files between systems with this snapshot utility.
By Brian Gallagher
In our recent reviews of Alpha NT systems, we tested several NT workstations with the Digital 21164PC processor using AIM Technology's Workstation Benchmark for Windows NT.
By Jonathan Chau
ImageCast makes disk imaging easy.
By Michael P. Deignan
CD-Accelerator creates a mirror image of a CD-ROM on a hard disk and shares the mirrored image as if it were a regular network share on the system. The performance is up to 10 times faster than the performance from a CD-ROM drive.
By Michael P. Deignan
Infinite InterChange, from Infinite Technologies, is a complete remote-access electronic mail solution that can bring order to your company's email systems.
By Sydney Bush
Don't spend more protecting something than it will cost you if security is compromised.
By Michael P. Deignan
Internet Message Center (IMC), from Mustang Software, is an intelligent email management solution. The product processes Internet email and places the email into its tracking system. The software generates an immediate acknowledgment.
By Michael P. Deignan
GFI Fax & Voice's Emailrobot is two products in one: an email management system and an email automation system.
By Bob Wells
Nine steps guide you through the download and install process for the AdminMisc extension appropriate for ActiveState’s Perl for Win32, version 5.003_07, build 316.
By Michael P. Deignan
Duplicate disk drives with ICS's portable duplication system.
By Michael P. Deignan
Load balance your TCP/IP traffic with F5 Labs'
Server Array Controller
By Michael P. Deignan
End the need for CD-ROM swapping. Instant CD Server is a network-enabled, Plug and Play (PnP) CD-ROM tower that lets you share CD-ROMs over your network.
By Craig Barth
When deploying a thin or lean client/server Windows NT solution keep in mind the security implications of three technologies--remote console, API redirection, and client-side persistent caching.
By Jonathan Chau
Win98 is an exceptional operating system (OS), with features that appeal to the most hardcore NT administrator.
By Michael P. Deignan
Power Solutions for Business offers www.SitePromoter. This product is a data management tool that registers your Web site on more than 150 Web-based search engines and Internet directories.
By Michael P. Deignan
Connected Online Backup is a program that backs up your data over the Internet or a private communication circuit. The program backs up your laptop or desktop PC on a regular basis and stores your data offsite for later recall.
By Michael P. Deignan
SCSI Express, from Micro Design International, helps you manage storage resources.
By Brad Cooper
Planning, preparing, and installing your cluster server software.
By Geoff Moes
Developing a co-location strategy for your Web site by using an understanding of Internet technology, a proper perspective, careful planning, diligence, and a little luck.
By Geoff Moes
How to access the Web server remotely for administration and how to secure the server from attacks.
By Andrey Kruchkov
Steps to help protect Internet Information Servers (IIS) 3.0 and4.0 from bugs.
By Mark T. Edmead
A review of Paul Robichaux's book "Managing the Windows NT Registry". A helpful addition to any NT administrator's bookshelf.
By Michael P. Deignan
Artisoft's i.SHARE 3.0 is an Internet-sharing tool that lets multiple users simultaneously access the Web through one dial-up connection to the Internet.
By Michael P. Deignan
NotePager 32 is an alphanumeric pager messaging program. Written in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB), the software uses the industry-standard Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) to upload alphanumeric messages to your paging company.
By Michael P. Deignan
Magnifi Enterprise Server 2.0 is a powerful tool that lets you index the contents of Web sites and your local intranet.
By Michael P. Deignan
VFC is an intranet, Web-based document storage and management system. Use VFC through any Web browser to store, retrieve, and search for documents within a central storage facility.
By Michael P. Deignan
Information Builders' WebFOCUS Application Server lets you provide online reports to users in your intranet or your external Web sites.
By Christa Anderson
If you get applications from an ASP and the network connection fails, you won't have access to your applications or data. Christa Anderson provides some workarounds for this problem.
By David Chernicoff
A FireWire bus can transfer data at speeds up to 400Mbps and is a must if you work with digital video.
By Megan Keller
Athena is a mobile device monitoring and management product that's unique because it runs on your existing management infrastructure rather than on an Odyssey proprietary server.
By Caroline Marwitz
Bridging the gap between ideal and real world practices can be challenging, but sometimes the right product can help.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Here's an opportunity to put a beta security product through the wringer and possibly win one of several game boxes in the process.
By Karen Forster
Read about Microsoft's TechEd announcements on IIS 7.0 and view a video interview with Brian Goldfarb.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
PatchLink will acquire SecureWave, thereby taking another step towards unified protection and control.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
HP will acquire SPI Dynamics, maker and provider of Web application security assessment software and services.
By Karen Forster
This week, Karen talks to Penton Media's IT team about its deployment of Vista.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Apple recently released a beta version of Safari 3.0.1 for Windows, and a torrent of newfound vulnerabilities is now raining down upon it.
By Renee Munshi
German software maker matrix42 recently decided it wanted to push more aggressively into the U.S. market with its PC-lifecycle-management product Empirum PRO, so it opened an office in Atlanta last year and released Empirum Security Suite.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
While ZLOB has been tracked in more than 1,000 renditions since late 2005, several security firms reported that the latest ZLOB outbreak takes social engineering to a new extreme to lure people into its trap.
By Paul Thurrott
Paul Thurrott explains the specific details of the Windows XP Product Activation (WPA) feature, which ties each copy of Windows XP to a specific PC and is designed to prevent casual piracy.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Symantec released a beta of its upcoming Endpoint Protection product, billed as "the most significant update to Symantec's market-leading enterprise antivirus product in years."