This Week: Nominate a Product of the Year

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A weekly newsletter published by TechTarget  October 20, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: Nominate a Product of the Year >> Featured Topic: Win the war on spam >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured expert: Serdar Yegulalp Site exclusives: >> Critical Windows, Exchange alerts issued >> Desktop expert offers unvarnished view of Office 2003 >> Users react to latest Microsoft security push >> Site Highlights: Webcast: Research in Motion Spotlight on SAN/NAS convergence Live expert VPN webcast, October 23  From the Editor: by Scott Regan, Site Manager This coming January, SearchWin2000.com will announce its first Product of the Year awards and we need your help! The awards will highlight and celebrate new products that are deemed outstanding examples of innovative technological advancement. We will consider products in six categories: Enterprise desktop administration Active Directory Network and system management Messaging Server operating system administration Security To be eligible for consideration for the Product of the Year award, a product must have been introduced or significantly upgraded between September 30, 2002 and October 1, 2003. Upgrades must incorporate new features and be designed to meet new or evolving needs in the marketplace. To nominate a particular product, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for an entry form. You must return the form by November 5, 2003 for consideration. The top three products in each category will be announced in January, and the winners will be included in a feature article to be published on SearchWin2000.com.  Featured Topic: Winning the war on spam by Will Hurwitz, Assistant Site Editor Spam is an expensive nuisance and it's your job to stop it. These tips, articles and expert solutions will give you the ammo to win the war on spam. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Serdar Yegulalp, Publisher, The Windows 2000 Power Users Newsletter Categories: Management Tools and Solutions, Desktop Administration A SearchWin2000.com member asks, "I am currently running an NT 4.0 environment with Win2k and XP Pro clients. I am looking for a way to push out service packs, patches and software to my clients. Is there any program you would recommend to do this?" View Serdar's answer to this question. Site Exclusives >> Critical Windows, Exchange alerts issued Microsoft issued five critical alerts last week, four for Windows and one for Exchange 2000 Server. >> Desktop expert offers unvarnished view of Office 2003 Windows desktop deployment expert Jerry Honeycutt cuts through the marketing hype to outline the highlights of Microsoft's new Office 2003, which makes its debut Oct. 21. >> Users react to latest Microsoft security push Microsoft's new strategy to "secure the perimeter" is drawing mixed reviews from customers and analysts, whose reactions range from high praise to "show me." Tip of the Week: SQL Server 2000 has several key features right out of the box that enable support for XML. Combining these features with ADO.NET and the XML Framework classes provide a broad range of options for working with data, which simplifies data access over the Web. >> SQL Server support for XML  Site Highlights Webcast -- Research in Motion Best practices for deploying and maintaining BlackBerry. Learn to effectively deploy BlackBerry and meet your current security needs. Spotlight on SAN/NAS convergence Make the road to convergence easier using joint block- and file-based data on the same array. Check out the spotlight on SAN/NAS convergence today. Live expert webcast, October 23 Learn more on VPN fundamentals for Windows. Explore fundamentals of VPN connectivity and its implementation in Microsoft's Windows server platforms. Get e-mail notifications when new webcasts are available! Sign up today with just one click! Enter your e-mail and start receiving Webcast Alerts. E-mail    Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription. Free chapter "Installing Windows Server 2003" discusses preplanning and preparing a server installation, using alternative methods of installation and upgrading to Windows Server 2003. Download today Cost saving webcast Hear how to determine the cost of network downtime and outages on a per-minute, hourly, daily, monthly and yearly basis using the Return on Investment (ROI) analysis calculator. View now White paper update Thinking about initiating a user management and provisioning system? Take a look at this white paper for hard-to-find guidelines and useful implementation techniques. Click here A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R This newsletter is published by TechTarget, the most targeted IT media. Copyright 2003 TechTarget. All rights reserved. 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