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One of the single most important aspects of a computer, from an administrative standpoint, is the ability to handle administration remotely. Nearly every operating system offers tools for such a task, but what do you do when you want to go cross-platform? The best bet is VNC (Virtual Network Computing). If you are connecting to […]

During an interesting conversation with a publisher of technical books, they expressed their dismay at the lack of success for titles focused on the Microsoft .NET platform. I was surprised by their thoughts behind the poor sales; they cited the abundance of freely available information (especially from Microsoft) as the main issue. The publisher’s observation […]

May’s Patch Tuesday didn’t just mean seven critical security bulletins for admins to worry about — it also welcomed some of Redmond’s newer products, including Office 2007 and Exchange 2007, to the process. While six of the updates address remote code execution threats — the remaining is a cumulative update for IE — most are […]

During the first half of the ’90s, Microsoft almost single-handedly ushered in the graphical user interface on the PC, as Windows became the de facto OS and its GUI became the default interface for new corporate applications. But two opposing forces, occurring simultaneously, created a “perfect storm” that threatened to wash Microsoft out of its […]

Chances are, you’re probably using your network for more than just file and print services. Almost all organizations use some form of e-mail or workgroup collaboration software. In Windows server environments, one of the most popular e-mail packages is Microsoft Exchange. As you probably know, Microsoft recently released the newest version of Exchange—Exchange 2000. If […]

A Microsoft Security Intelligence report shows that malware persisted to dominate above all other threats in Q3 and Q4 of 2009, as trojans were the most common variety of threat – according to data from over 500 million computers worldwide via Microsoft security products. Best online Microsoft MCTS Training, Microsoft MCITP Certification at certkingdom.com Microsoft […]

Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold. High-performance computing once required massive, expensive, exotic machines from companies such as Cray, but the field is being remade by the arrival of clusters of low-end machines. While the trend […]

With a long-awaited security update to Windows XP now complete, Microsoft is preparing a holiday season push for the 3-year-old operating system–and is set to revisit ambitious plans for the next major revision, News.com has learned. That revision, code-named Longhorn, one of the most difficult and complicated in the company’s history, has fallen further behind […]

For its regular monthly security announcement in August 2004, Microsoft released only a single Security Bulletin, MS04-026, “Vulnerability in Exchange Server 5.5 Outlook Web Access Could Allow Cross-Site Scripting and Spoofing Attacks.” This vulnerability, which could allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on a compromised system, has also been assigned the MITRE candidate […]

Cooperation between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft probably won’t drastically alter the information technology landscape, analysts and IT professionals say, but it should eliminate some integration headaches. Last month’s historic agreement between the two computing giants is most likely to create near-term progress in two areas: identification and directory services, and Web services. Further down the […]