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This issue provides advice for automating patch testing to help you quickly shake out the bugs, patch-management best practices and tips, and information about the latest patch-management offering from Microsoft: Windows Update Services.


Windows 2000 Professional Home Setup

By Readers, 03/30/2004

Learn which services you can set to Manual to improve your home PC’s performance.

Predefined MySQL Accounts

By Dustin Puryear, 03/30/2004

Two of MySQL's predefined user accounts allow anonymous connections and represent a security risk. Read this sidebar to learn how to delete those connections.

New Features in Longhorn

By Michael Otey, 03/30/2004

The most important changes to the next version of Windows include a new file system, graphical architecture, and communications subsystem.

New & Improved

By Carolyn Mader, 03/30/2004

Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace.

What You Need to Know About Windows Update Services

By Paul Thurrott, 03/30/2004

Find out about Microsoft's revamped patch-management technology in the new Windows Update Services application.

Comparing SATA RAID and SCSI RAID

By Bob Chronister, 03/30/2004

Look at the pros and cons of SATA RAID and SCSI RAID.

What's Hot

By Carolyn Mader, 03/30/2004

Readers highlight favorite products: JAM Software's TreeSize Professional, Flowerfire's Sawmill, and MailFoundry's MailFoundryEP.

AD Branch Office Design

By Sean Deuby, 03/30/2004

Use these design principles to determine whether a branch office needs a site, DC, or GC.

Web Content-Filtering Solutions

By Brett Hill, 03/30/2004

Products that restrict employee Internet access use techniques that range from blocking URLs to making dynamic policy changes on the fly. These 19 Web content-filtering solutions ...

The Magic of Mount Points

By Jerry Cochran, 03/30/2004

Mount points are useful tools that overcome drive-letter limitations and simplify directory navigation of your storage systems.

Advanced Patch Management

By Mark Burnett, 03/30/2004

Arm yourself with the advanced techniques and resources needed to keep your crucial servers up-to-date.

A Small Consideration

By Roger A. Grimes, 03/30/2004

Like any monitoring tool, honeypots potentially add liability that’s assumed by the administrator.

Performing an Authoritative AD Restoration

By Bob Chronister, 03/30/2004

Discover the difference between authoritative and nonauthoritative AD restorations and how to perform the former.

Letters to the Editor

By Editors, 03/30/2004

Readers share their thoughts about using event tracing, using reg.exe, and controlling the Recent Documents folder.

Taking Control of Group Policy

By Kathy Ivens, 03/30/2004

Discover how to reduce the number of policies you apply to maintain control over your domain environment.

Powering Databases with MySQL

By Dustin Puryear, 03/30/2004

Lower your licensing and operating costs with this powerful, comprehensive, and free database solution.

Patch Testing

By Jason Fossen, 03/30/2004

Some tips and scripts help you build a test lab and automate the process of testing OS and application patches.

Finding Exchange Clustering Alternatives

By Bob Chronister, 03/30/2004

Find some high-availability solutions to traditional Exchange clusters.

Living with a Tablet PC

By John D. Ruley, 03/30/2004

Discover the advantages and limitations of working with a slate-style Tablet PC as your primary computer.

What You Need to Know About Microsoft SmartScreen Technology and the Exchange Intelligent Message Filter

By Paul Thurrott, 03/30/2004

Microsoft's new antispam SmartScreen Technology is based on Bayesian-like machine learning technology that uses a probability-based algorithm to determine whether email is spam.

Honeypots for Windows

By Roger A. Grimes, 03/30/2004

By offering a target too sweet to resist, you can help protect your Windows network.

Logon Rejection

By Apostolos Fotakelis, 03/30/2004

Read about a password problem that prevented even the administrator from logging on.

Unreasonable Expectations

By Michael Otey, 03/30/2004

Keeping systems safe from security exploits takes too darned much time! Mike looks at how to make the patch process more manageable.

Automating Dcpromo

By Mark Minasi, 03/30/2004

Learn how to use answer-file scripts that automate the Active Directory Installation Wizard.


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