THIS WEEK: You can look back and laugh at it now, right?

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February 03, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: True IT bloopers -- you can look back and laugh at them now, right? >> Featured Topic: Know-IT-All admin challenge, the sequel >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Laura Hunter, network management Site Exclusives: >> Admins let out collective "whew" over NT reprieve >> Active Directory migration horror stories >> Mark Minasi Q&A: Tuning Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 Tip of the Week: The difference between hackers and crackers >> Site Highlights: Webcast on IT jobs in 2003 Last chance to win a Treo 90 PDA! Windows XP Pro Security -- chapter five now available for download!  From the Editor: by Catherine Ketcher, Site Editor Dear SearchWin2000.com readers: Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Catherine Ketcher and I just joined the SearchWin2000.com team from SearchHP.com, as a site editor. My goal is to make SearchWin2000.com as useful as possible for Windows professionals and decision makers. To achieve that, I'd like to hear from you! Tell me what we are doing well or what we could be doing better. Let me know what kind of information you're looking for and whether or not you found it on SearchWin2000.com. Have an IT problem keeping you awake at night? Allow me to find the information to help you solve it. The SearchWin2000 team is open to any suggestion, criticism or compliment that you have to offer. Just e-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. We promise to answer your e-mail promptly. On a lighter note, I'll now be managing our True IT Blooper contest, so I want to remind you to keep those bloopers coming. Not only are they an entertaining read, you may also be keeping your peers from making the same mistakes. Send in your biggest, most embarrassing (surely you can look back and laugh at it by now) bloopers to be eligible to win this month's prize. We're up to 92 bloopers already and the 100th will receive a special prize -- stay tuned to SearchWin2000.com and SearchWindowsManageability.com for more details. I'm glad to be a part of SearchWin2000.com and I look forward to hearing from you all. Enjoy the week ahead! Catherine Ketcher  Featured Topic: Know-IT-All admin challenge, the sequel by David Pye, Assistant Editor It's that time again, folks -- we're happy to introduce the follow up to last year's popular admin Know-IT-All Quiz challenge. Are you well rested and ready to get back in the saddle? Got what it takes to join the ranks of the SearchWin2000.com IT Intelligencia? You're about to find out -- Mr. Know-IT-All himself invites you to put your IT tenacity to the test or submit your own question for fellow users to ponder! Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Laura Hunter, network administrator & technical trainer Category: Network Management Keep your LANs and WANs running smoothly. Our expert Laura Hunter will help you troubleshoot any networking issues you need help with. View all Laura's answers or ask her a question. Site Exclusives >> Admins let out collective "whew" over NT reprieve Microsoft had planned to end NT support at the end of this year, but the company will now continue to issue hotfixes and security support until December 2004. Bob O'Brien, a program manager at Microsoft for Windows Server 2003, said that company was responding to customers who were in the process of migrating from NT to Windows 2000, and who said they felt uncomfortable having only part of their systems receiving support. >> Active Directory migration horror stories Microsoft's Active Directory, regarded as a breakthrough technology, has also been known to mangle networks. AD is touchy and can make life miserable for IT pros who don't treat it with care and approach it with humility. In this article, our experts share AD horror stories that might scare IT pros into a more caring and humble attitude. They also suggest a few AD migration tips that could reduce headaches for IT pros. >> Mark Minasi Q&A: Tuning Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 What should you tweak and what should you replace when tuning Windows 2000, XP or the soon-to-be released Windows Server 2003? In a (virtual) standing-room-only January 9, 2003 webcast, Tuning 2000/XP/.NET, preeminent Windows technologist Mark Minasi answered this question -- and more than a hundred more. Read Minasi's answers to your most burning tuning questions in this three-part series. Tip of the Week: The difference between hackers and crackers When you think of security, it's a good bet that some of your thinking drifts to hackers and crackers. These are both security threats that you have to take into account. But do you know the difference? Well, some people do, and although many of them don't want their names bandied about, as is the case with the author of this tip, they can tell us much about the shadowy hacker community, and other security threats as well. This tip defines the difference between hackers and crackers, and discusses some simple things they can do to get inside your systems. >> Click here for the full tip.  Site Highlights Webcast on IT jobs in 2003 Listen as our IT career expert discusses which jobs are in most (and least) demand in 2003 and why. Listen now! Sponsored By: Global Knowledge Last chance to win a Treo 90 PDA! Don't miss your chance to register for the 2003 CRM Decisions conference and win! Listen as top experts share tips for CRM success at this vendor-neutral conference. Only 41 seats remain -- register now. Windows XP Professional Security Download chapter five now! Windows XP Professional Security is the most comprehensive guide to Microsoft's latest security technologies. 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