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Security This month, we provide guidelines for using Group Policy to manage your security configuration, for protecting IIS, for monitoring security events, and for using Windows 2003's quarantine feature.		• Subscribe • Renew • Master CD • Change Mailing Address • Customer Service • Back Issues • Article Reprints • Group Discounts
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Arrest Suspect Clients with Windows 2003’s New Quarantine Feature

Don’t let your network’s remote Access Points fall victim to new viruses and other intruders’ attacks. Use Windows 2003’s Network Access Quarantine Control feature.
By Allen Jones 

GPO Security

Learn how to use group policies to deploy and manage your security configuration, and get the most out of some useful Windows security policy settings.
By Darren Mar-Elia 

Monitoring Important Security Events

Learn to use your Security log to detect suspicious activity by monitoring logons, important system events, and file access.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Safeguarding IIS from Attack

Here is some IIS security folklore that you should steer clear of and concrete IIS security advice you should heed.
By Brett Hill 

Remote Command Service

The Remote Command Service utility provides a secure, robust way to remotely administer and run command-line programs.
By Elias Khnaser 

Event Viewer Helps Solve Problem

Event Viewer helps a reader discover a problem with a NIC’s UTP cables.
By Readers 

NetMeeting

NetMeeting is superior to other remote control tools.
By Readers 

Remote Restart

Use the MMC to remotely restart a Windows XP or Win2K machine.
By Readers 

Windows XP’s Documents Directories

Customize XP’s local user documents directories.
By Readers 

The TPC-C Numbers Tell the Tale

The TPC-C is a useful yardstick for comparing application platforms and shows that Windows can scale to match any available system.
By Michael Otey 

Windows Server 2003 DNS

Learn how Windows 2003 DNS's stub zones and conditional forwarding improve on the capabilities of Win2K's DNS.
By Mark Minasi 

Attempting to Recover Data After a Power Surge

A reader wonders whether any hope of recovery exists after a serious power surge fries several partitions.
By Bob Chronister 

Breaking a SAN Array out of a Continual Boot Cycle

Dr. Bob helps a reader work through a boot problem.
By Bob Chronister 

Disabling DHCP Through the Registry

Modify the registry to solve a DHCP-related problem.
By Bob Chronister 

Resolving a SCSI Timing Problem

Find out how to reduce an overly long boot cycle.
By Bob Chronister 

Solving an Exchange Backup Problem

Learn how to resolve conflicts between Exchange and Backup Exec.
By Bob Chronister 

Hottest Processors

Moore's Law is still in effect, making it tough to keep up with processing capability. Here's a cheat sheet to today's hottest processors.
By Michael Otey 

Enterprise Backup and Recovery

Purchase a solution to back up your company’s important data.
By Ed Roth 

Letters to the Editor

Readers share their thoughts about VoIP security, wireless support, the cost of NAS and SAN, Microsoft patches, .NET, and desktop management.
By Readers  , et al.

High-End Servers

Evaluate new Itanium 2 and Xeon server products from Dell, HP, IBM, NEC Solutions America, and Unisys.
By John Green 

Intel Centrino Mobile Technology

Intel introduces a chip designed specifically for mobile systems.
By Ed Roth 

What You Need to Know About Microsoft Office Project 2003

Microsoft Office Project 2003 is an interesting upgrade that addresses key customer requests and offers deep integration with other Microsoft products.
By Paul Thurrott 

What You Need to Know About Windows SharePoint Services 2003

The second generation of Microsoft SharePoint technology recently debuted as Windows SharePoint Services (WSS).
By Paul Thurrott 

What's Hot

Readers tell us about their favorite products.
By Carolyn Mader 

Capturing IP Addresses for Web Server Logon Events

Learn how to retrieve IP address for users logging on to a Win2K Web server.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Configuring a Shortcut to Prompt for Credentials

Make best-practice adherence as easy as possible for your systems administrators.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Determining the Size of the Public Folder Hierarchy

Here's an easy way to determine the size of your public folder hierarchy.
By Paul Robichaux 

Moving Files to an Encrypted Folder

If you want Win2K to encrypt a file that you move into an encrypted folder, don't use the GUI to move the file.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Sending Meeting Requests to POP Clients

Discover why meeting requests show up as .ics attachments for POP users on Exchange 2000.
By Paul Robichaux 

Solving a Conflict Between SharePoint Services and OWA

Find out how to keep the SharePoint Services renderer from automatically rendering URLs.
By Paul Robichaux 

Small Business in a Box

Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 provides robust functionality at a compelling price, making this version a better deal for small businesses than previous versions.
By Mark Smith 

Understanding User Accounts

When you know how to set up user accounts correctly, you can head off problems.
By Kathy Ivens 

New & Improved

Learn more about newly released software and hardware products.
By Carolyn Mader