Today's News: Office din is nearly deafening

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A newsletter published by TechTarget   October 24, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  SearchWin2000.com: Salary Survey / Are you getting paid what you're worth? >>  SearchWin2000.com: Visit SearchWin2000.com's new Dice-powered Career Center  Top News of the Week  >>  Products, patches and shared source SPONSORED BY: SearchWin2000.com What's the average salary for a Windows admin? How does experience and the lackluster economy factor into your compensation package? The editors at SearchWin2000.com want to know -- and you can tell us. Take our exclusive SearchWin2000.com salary survey. We'll crunch the numbers and report the results in an upcoming feature. Click here to explore the new salary survey!  Week In Review  Office din is nearly deafening by John Hogan, News Editor There's no Madonna jingle to go with the new version of Office, like there was with the launch of Windows XP. Microsoft is singing a different tune: Applications that let people collaborate make people more productive. People who are more productive save time. And time, of course, is money. That's the essence of the message that Bill Gates put forth to the world from a stage in New York at Tuesday's formal debut of Office 2003. In a time when businesses are staggering to their feet after three long years of punishing economic blows, Microsoft is making a case that companies can get some measurable return on investment for the suite of applications. Click here to read more about John Hogan's take on Office 2003 and other top stories of the week. More on this topic: >  Gates zones in on ROI at Office 2003 launch >  Linux not accountable for security, Ballmer says >  SMS 2003 released to manufacturing >  Microsoft expands 'shared source' effort >  Microsoft clears its own XP SP2 confusion SPONSORED BY: SearchWin2000.com Searching for career resources? 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IT Toolkit: Consider using Microsoft Software Update Services Microsoft has an increasingly popular software tool for distributing Microsoft-authored patches, upgrades and service packs for organizations using Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. The tool is called Software Update Services (SUS). Learn about the recent changes and enhanced features in SUS. Best of all, it's free. Chapter of the Week: organizational unit and group structure This chapter from Windows 2003 Unleashed by Rand Morimoto defines organizational units (OU) and groups within Windows Server 2003's Active Directory and describes how to integrate them into various Active Directory designs. It also offers specific step-by-step instructions and 'best practice' design advice. TRUE IT BLOOPERS True IT Blooper #117: It's clean enough In this blooper, one IT pro learns that cleaning his server room is a good way to make Friday a wash. Have a wild story to share? Tell us about your wackiest IT bloopers! 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