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Asian governments mull Windows alternative (E-Commerce Times)
Microsoft may be in for a homegrown challenge to Windows from governments in Asia. Officials from China, Japan and South Korea planned a gathering this week to discuss the possibility of developing an open-source operating system to break their reliance on Windows.
NEWS
MS revises communications protocol licenses (SD Times)
Users are being encouraged by legal experts to carefully review changes in fees and terms made by Microsoft for communications protocols, such as extensions to Web Services Description Language (WSDL), as well as a number of networking specifications. The changes, which are described as more explicit than in previous license verions, were announced at the beginning of last month.
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'Terminal services'
Terminal services is Microsoft's answer to thin client technology. In each major Windows NT server family release, terminal services has undergone significant changes. In Windows Server 2003, it continues to advance with remote desktop management and essential security services. This chapter, from Robert Williams' and Mark Walla's The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator's Guide, includes a conceptual review of new terminal services and also discusses how to install and configure them.
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IT SURVIVAL KIT
Many desktops, many patches -- no problem
Keeping Windows 2000 desktop machines up to date can be an exhausting and tedious job, especially given the breadth and variety of updates that have to be checked and applied. Worse, Microsoft keeps many of its updates in disparate locations -- Windows Update, the MDAC site, the security bulletin site, and on and on. This tip will teach you about software solutions that make managing patch installation across desktops far easier.
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I want to decommission an Exchange 2000 server, and I would like to know the correct way to do it. This server was installed last year and worked fine until it ran out of hard drive space. I built a new server with 400% more space and migrated all mailboxes and public store items to the new server. I have searched everywhere possible, and there is not one reference on how to decommission an Exchange 2000 server. Do you have any information on this subject?
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AD migration
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Brosnan bonds with piercebrosnan.com
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The title could have been Live and Let Cybersquat, but this was no movie, and the man behind Bond was not about to let the man who owned piercebrosnan.com get away with it. Jeff Burgar, who's kind of like the Blofeld of cybersquatters, was redirecting piercebrosnan.com traffic to a commercial Web site. The man of Remington Steele took Burgar to the World Intellectual Property Organization, which ordered the site go to Brosnan. So if Burgar loses his appeal, he could star in a movie called The Spy Who Hates Me.
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