Find out how Microsoft's company-wide strategy will optimize IT knowledge and reduce complexity in the Windows stack. VP Kirill Tatarinov discusses Microsoft's roadmap for management products and the Dynamic Systems Initiative.
By Blake Eno
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Insightix's DID Collector
By Paul Thurrott
Keep an eye on IE with Paul's review of IE 7.0 Beta 2. Plus, find out why Windows Live may prove promising for business users as well as consumers
By Roger A. Grimes
: A counterattack script was used by some administrators to try to stop the onslaught of the MSBlaster worm.
By William Sheldon
Learn how to mitigate the risks associated with .NET on SQL Server
By Michael Otey
Watch out Microsoft—Oracle has become lightweight-database contender.
By William Sheldon
Learn about two powerful uses of .NET on SQL Server.
By Anne Grubb
Chris Blasen, a University of Iowa IT manager, talks about how SMS has improved desktop security and saved administrators time as well as his department's unique SMS educational Web site.
By Blake Eno
Readers highlight favorite products: Stonesoft's StoneGate SG-200, PacketMotion's PacketSentry, and Sunbelt Software's CounterSpy Enterprise.
By Ben Smith
The 80/20 rule is a well-known management principle. Here's how you can put it to use to reduce and retarget IT resources allocation.
By Roger A. Grimes
If you want to catch that latest virus that's going around (to learn more about it), here are four methods you can use: port listeners, tarpits, honeypots, and virtual machines.
By Randy Franklin Smith
If you specify a WSUS server to use as the basis for an MBSA scan, the scan will report only on updates that you want to roll out.
By
In Windows 2003, the Windows Components Wizard can sometimes take a long time to appear. You can eliminate this delay in six simple steps.
By William Sheldon
Find out why to specify a WSUS server to use as the basis for an MBSA scan, discover why deleting a meeting request from Outlook Sent Items doesn't delete the appointment from the calendar, and learn about using .NET with SQL Server.
By Karen Forster
Notes about Storage Server, Exchange 12 and Monad, ISAServer, and how to vote in Windows IT Pro upcoming Readers' Choice awards.
By Devin L. Ganger
Use built-in Exchange 2003 features to battle spam in 3 stages.
By
If you want your batch file to launch several programs at the same time, you can use the Start command or the pipe symbol.
By Paul Thurrott
Microsoft's storage partners should pay attention to Microsoft's new storage-related products and services which are intended to impact the competitive landscape of the storage market.
By Mark Minasi
Here's a peek at a unique tool that lets you create a file share, set its permissions, find out who’s using it at the moment, and document it—all from the command line.
By
Despite their age, you can get pre-Mac OS X clients to share their data with Windows OSs.
By Anne Grubb
iSCSI SAN technology, along with ongoing improvements in the disk capacity, performance, and storage-management capabilities of iSCSI storage arrays, has largely eliminated cost as an obstacle to implementing a SAN.
By
If you use Active Directory in your environment, you can take advantage of Group Policy to stop users from running IM.
By John Green
Looking for a networking-monitoring solution? Check out Neon Software’s easy-to-use, comprehensive LANsurveyor 9.5.
By Karen Forster
Readers ask why they should purchase Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, how the product eliminates redundancy in file storage, and what improvements were made in DFS.
By Trisha Pendley
This server-backup utility is user-friendly but lacks a few important capabilities.
By
If you use DCOM to enable the remote execution of COM objects, you might have encountered DCOM error 10021. Here’s how to correct that error.
By
Our editors share insights from their conversations with XOsoft, EMC, Softricity, and Whale Communications.
By Mark Russinovich
Windows administrators need to be aware that if a user, even one running with a limited account, can execute just one program of their choice, they can circumvent many Group Policy settings
By Michael Otey
If you want a high availability solution for SQL Server, check out this Neverfail product.
By Michael Otey
Almost everyone uses Office, yet many of its components remain hidden. Here are 10 features you probably don't know about.
By John Green
This product simplifies the installation of printer drivers and the removal of obsolete drivers.
By Sue Mosher
Sue Mosher explains why deleting a meeting request from Sent Items doesn't delete the appointment from the calendar.
By Karen Forster
Microsoft is finally providing a consistent management UI and experience throughout the Windows stack. Karen Forster explores this strategy in an interview with Microsoft's Kirill Tatarinov.
By John Savill
The Operating System Deployment (OSD) Feature Pack extends Systems Management Server 2003's software-deployment capability to OSs. Learn the key steps for creating and deploying an OS image with this handy tool.