THIS WEEK: Yukon -- further than you thought, plus some Geek speak

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February 17, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: Yukon -- further than you thought, plus some Geek speak >> Featured Topic: XP eXPosed >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: James Michael Stewart, server administration Site Exclusives: >> Out of the loop: It's all Geek to me >> E-gads! Glut of e-mail could mean storage space race >> Early bird vendors beating MS to software-tracking worm >> Microsoft aims for more reliability, respect in data center Tip of the Week: Strange behavior? Check the MTU >> Site Highlights: Vendor webcast on Web services Windows storage: a new newsletter! Chapter download: Windows XP Professional Security  From the Editor: by Margie Semilof, Senior News Writer What features would you like to see in Microsoft's next generation database, code-named Yukon? An invitation-only crowd of DBAs, Microsoft partners and others met in Redmond this week to test drive Yukon alpha code and to provide feedback to Microsoft in advance of the beta, due out in June. Yukon will serve as the underpinnings of other key Microsoft platforms, in particular, the next major release of Exchange, code-named Kodiak. So far, Microsoft has said little about the technology, other than to offer a few key details in dribs and drabs. Yukon will integrate with the .NET common language runtime, it will do online analytical processing and data mining on real-time streams of data. Of course, it also has support for XML. Security features will also be paramount. Only one week after Microsoft chairman Bill Gates distributed a memo which charted the progress of his year-old Trustworthy Computing Initiative, Microsoft was embarrassed by the so-called Slammer worm, which attacked SQL Server databases. Patches were available, but for a variety of reasons, many customers could not apply them or were unable to apply them. Yukon promises better patch installation techniques, and will also by default disable public access to openings that may be provided by tables, or rows and columns of data, according to Microsoft executives. And finally, Microsoft said it will be extending its business intelligence platform with reporting services. Yukon won't be available for a long time. Though the software is scheduled to be available in early 2004, there are rumblings from the field that the production version of this software won't be ready until sometimes in the middle of next year. That probably won't concern most Windows or database administrators, who usually like to watch from afar as new software releases -- especially ones of this magnitude -- take time to settle in the market. So weigh in on Yukon. How important is this new database to your Windows strategy? Margie Semilof [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Featured Topic: XP eXPosed by Marilyn Cohodas, Senior Site Editor Whether you are looking for reasons to upgrade or tips on how to optimize new features, we've taken the shrink-wrap off your most pressing desktop deployment questions in this collection of XP Webcasts, tips and expert advice. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert James Michael Stewart Author and Consultant, ITinfo Pros Categories:Server Administration A member asks James, "I am planning to install one forest and one domain for my head office and five branch offices. How much traffic will AD replication cause on my one forest/one domain network?" View James' answer to this question and more. Site exclusives >> It's all Geek to me Modern Geek has helped cement the word "exploit" into a noun and "malicious" into a "code word." But what if Mister Rogers wrote Microsoft's security bulletins? Some thoughts from News Editor Ed Parry. >> E-gads! Glut of e-mail could mean storage space race Your next big headache: finding storage space for the 80 e-mails you'll send and receive per day by 2006. Get three quick tips for setting up an archive and more in this article. >> Early bird vendors beating MS to software-tracking worm Microsoft isn't the only game in town when it comes to applications that can track software licenses and usage. Read on for some alternatives to SMS 2003. >> Microsoft aims for more reliability, respect in data center Will Microsoft's new Datacenter High Availability Program help drive down downtime and win more respect from IT managers? One analyst says it could. Tip of the Week: Sometimes, problems with Exchange server, whether 5.5 or 2000, are not the fault of the server software. Hard as it may be to believe, other factors, like settings in your TCP/IP stack, could cause problems that seem to be the fault of Exchange. >> Strange behavior? 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