THIS WEEK: Gartner waxes Windows

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April 22, 2002 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: What's your IT beef? >> Featured Topic: Gartner waxes Windows >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Ed Tittel, certification Tip of the Week: Fight back at spam >> Site Highlights: Tuesday Vendor Connection: Leveraging Windows Installer Wednesday Vendor Connection: Advanced AD Security Management Thursday Live Expert Q&A: What .NET means for your MS certification  From the Editor: by Meredith Derby, Assistant News Editor At Microsoft's TechEd conference last week I had an interesting chat with two IT pros. They shared some of their major IT-related beefs and just how real they felt the .NET momentum is. One major complaint was that, even though IT systems were designed to simplify tasks -- take the simple example of the Apple II for word processing -- they don't always make life easier. "Things never quite work right," said Susan Nash, Information Systems Specialist. Nash also wishes deploying new applications on Web-based client servers would take her a few weeks NOT a few months. Further, why does training, Nash wondered, always take much longer than anticipated? Meanwhile, the University of Colorado is waiting to see how quickly .NET explodes onto the scene before changing its class roster. It depends on how quickly the businesses where most students are placed to work after graduation change to .NET, said Steven Walczak, an associate professor of IT. Once they do, the college will begin teaching .NET. This year the college is keeping its C++ classes, but he expects by the fall of 2003, it will adapt existing courses to a .NET-centric theme. "We need to be ready, though," said Walczak, "in case it happens sooner." What's on your mind lately? Are you contemplating how much .NET and Web services could work for your company, or are you stuck in the daily meanderings of trying to get your IT system working well? Let me know! E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Meredith Derby Assistant News Editor  Featured Topic: Gartner waxes Windows by Ed Parry, News Editor How is Microsoft promising to deliver value? How important is .NET Server? How do you know your licenses are in order? Gartner and MS addressed all these issues during the consulting firm's "Windows: Nothing but .NET?" conference. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Ed Tittel, LANWrights, Inc. Category: Certification Let Ed unscramble the alphabet soup of Microsoft certification for you. Submit your certification question here. This week: In the forums >> SearchWin2000 member "NTAdmin" writes: "I have an environment in which users log on from many different locations. I would like to have their "apps" drive mapped dynamically to a server on the same subnet as the machine they are logged on to. Can I do this with a login script or something else? They are using Win2000 Pro desktops in an NT 4.0 domain that will be converted to Win2000 AD later." Can you help your peer? Click here to offer a helping hand! Tip of the Week: Spam and unsolicited e-mail is a chronic problem for companies of all sizes. SearchWin2000 Hall of Famer Robert Shahon explains three different approaches you can use to manage this issue. >> Fight back at spam  Site Highlights Tuesday Online Vendor Connection Leveraging Windows Installer. Pre-register now for this InstallShield event! Learn the benefits of using native Windows Installer to repackage your applications when migrating to Windows 2000 or XP. Sponsored By: InstallShield Wednesday Online Vendor Connection Join us and learn about Advanced Active Directory Security Management from Quest. Secure your Active Directory data! Quest's Keith Millar will discuss improving network security and maximizing ROI on AD. Sponsored By: Quest Software Thursday Live Expert Q&A What .NET means for your Microsoft certification Join SearchWin2000 certification expert Ed Tittel to learn about the certification changes you can expect in the .NET era. Ed will address new mid-level credentials such as MCSA and MCAD, and additional MCSE requirements expected for the .NET server. Sponsored By: Global Knowledge 16 days left! Last chance to apply for FREE attendance at our Windows Decisions conference. Only a few seats remain open, so you must act now. Apply today! Win2000Talk radio Learn what every business needs to know to stay on the "right side" of the Software Police. Listen now. .NET Info Center Visit the new .NET Info Center and get the latest industry news, resources and expert advice on all things .NET. Bookmark it. A B O U T   T H I S   E M A I L This e-mail is brought to you by TechTarget where you can get relevant search results from over 19 industry-specific Web sites. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter simply reply to this message with "REMOVE" in the subject line. Please allow 24 hours for your "REMOVE" request to be processed. Copyright 2002 TechTarget, Inc. All rights reserved.