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Patch Management

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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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White Papers

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Essential Guides

Is your iSCSI "lossy"? The reality is that most off-the-shelf Ethernet hardware deployed for iSCSI can lose packets, resulting in slow performance or application downtime. Learn how to assess your current iSCSI infrastructure and engineer an advanced iSCSI SAN infrastructure.

Web Seminars

What's the best way to keep your network safe from malware? In this web seminar, security expert Greg Shields suggests an alternative method to the traditional blacklisting approach that is common with anti-virus and anti-malware solutions.

eLearning Series

We bring the experts direct to you to share their real-world perspective and expertise. During each event, three sessions stream in real time, so you can learn, ask questions, and get solutions.
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