This Week: Microsoft's enterprise management gambit

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March 24, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: Glossary grab >> Featured Topic: Microsoft's enterprise management gambit >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Roberta Bragg, Security Site Exclusives >> Special Report: Microsoft Management Summit 2003 >> 'We're not moving SMS to storage,' MS exec says >> How important is Microsoft's enterprise management software? Tip of the Week: Active Directory and IntelliMirror >> Site Highlights: Webcast on desktop deployment Sponsored white paper: "Group policy eBooks" Mark Minasi's "Mastering Windows Server 2003"  From the Editor: by Dana McCurley, Assistant Editor GLOSSARY GRAB Are you sitting in front of your computer and wondering if you are a carbon copy of your colleague in the next office? Or maybe you're looking for answers for a user who just called making much ADO about a blue screen of death, trying not to think of the tiny critter you saw in the scuzzy cafeteria last week -- you know the one, he was running mouse miles looking for dropped scraps of food. Who wants to work on a Monday morning? Wouldn't you rather be hanging wallpaper in your living room or making up for that fatal exception from the conversation with your spouse last night -- the one thing that would have let you sleep anywhere else but on the couch (OOPS!). Or are you knee-deep in IT problems? Do you already feel like most desktops could use a good boot to the curb? Doesn't it seem some days that life would be simpler if everyone just used pens and tablets? They require zero administration and are about as technological as a pizza pie server. Ah, the days when Anna Kournikova was only a tennis star and a floating point unit was an alien spacecraft. Times were simpler then. Desktop themes could be perpetual motion balls or miniature globe bookends, and a directory was a listing of people that worked in the building and was usually found in the lobby. A memory leak meant that someone was really old and smart tags had your name on them and hung from your suitcase. If you've been reading this wondering if all this ruminating suggests that I am certifiable, click over to SearchWin2000.com's new glossary. It's been given an A plus by teachers everywhere and even been called "FAT" by a few teenagers. We're pretty sure that's a compliment. Let me know if there's a Windows-related term that you don't see and have been scratching your head about. We'll compile a few more definitions, configure the best one for our members and post it to our site. -- Dana  Featured Topic: Microsoft's enterprise management gambit by Marilyn Cohodas, Senior Site Editor What's in store for Windows enterprise management? Find out about Redmond's bold new gambit. The centerpiece of the plan (circa 2006) is autonomic computing, but you'll see hints of things to come with SMS 2003 and MOM 2004. Get the big picture in this week's Featured Topic. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Roberta Bragg, author Categories: Security Roberta Bragg has solutions to your stickiest security problems from A (access permissions) to V (viruses). View all of Roberta's answers or ask her a question. Site Exclusives: >> Special Report: Microsoft Management Summit 2003 Microsoft rolled back the curtains on a glitzy new vision at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas last week. Click here for SearchWin2000.com's in-depth show coverage, including exclusive interviews on the state of Windows manageability with Microsoft executives and partners at NetIQ, Ecora, Quest, Wise Solutions and InstallShield. >> 'We're not moving SMS to storage,' MS exec says Windows management software under the storage umbrella? Not to worry, says Microsoft enterprise management executive David Hamilton. SMS, MOM and other products will not become storage add-ons; their corporate minders will simply have a boss from storage. >> How important is Microsoft's enterprise management software? On a scale of "not important" to "mission critical" how would you rate Microsoft's existing management platforms in relation to your company's IT strategy? Help us grade Microsoft on this and other important issues by taking the SearchWin2000.com Microsoft report card survey for 2003. Tip of the Week: You have heard about IntelliMirror, but do you know how the thing works and how you would configure it? As you probably suspect by now, configuring it is all a part of the work you do with Active Directory, and it's easier than you might have thought. In fact, it's all a part of setting up the appropriate GPOs. >> Active Directory and IntelliMirror  Site Highlights Webcast on desktop deployment Jerry Honeycutt discusses the issues you must consider when deploying Windows XP and Office XP to the business desktop. Listen now! Sponsored By: Microsoft Sponsored white paper: "Group policy eBooks" This white paper details strategies for planning, deploying and managing group policies more efficiently. Click here for the white paper. Chapter download: Mark Minasi's "Mastering Windows Server 2003" We'd like to offer you the free download of chapter one before Mark's new book even hits the shelves! In his new book Mark updates his best-selling "Mastering Windows 2000 Server, fourth edition" to cover Microsoft's upcoming Server release in his trademark clear, step-by-step fashion. Sign up for our Exchange tip! Enter your email and start receiving Exchange Administration Tips. Email:     Not a member? 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