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A newsletter published by TechTarget   November 05, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  SalesLogix: CRM AND BACK OFFICE INTEGRATION: A FREE ABERDEEN WHITE PAPER >>  SearchWin2000.com: Salary Survey: Are you getting paid what you're worth?  Today's Highlights   >>  LEAD STORY:  Microsoft ponies up reward money to catch hackers >>  NEWS:  Microsoft vs. Novell, round two? >>  CHAPTER OF THE WEEK:  Clustered solutions with WinServer 2003 >>  THE MISSING LINK:  Tech downturn brings a slump in humor, too  News and Top Stories   LEAD STORY Microsoft ponies up reward money to catch hackers  (SearchWin2000.com) Microsoft gathered this morning with U.S. and international law enforcement officials to detail the software maker's offer of reward money to catch those who write computer viruses and worms. More on this topic: >  Ballmer lays out Windows security plan >  Lovsan-type threats require layered-security approach SPONSORED BY: SalesLogix CRM AND BACK OFFICE INTEGRATION: A FREE ABERDEEN WHITE PAPER Learn the potential of CRM to help solve strategic business problems. Save costs by designing systems that deliver increased structure and visibility of sales and service channels. Create consistency and accuracy in billing and forecasting, and reduce overall operational time and costs by eliminating redundancy. Aberdeen Group explores the SalesLogix suite of CRM products and how they enable you to drive greater ROI on IT investments. Download this free white paper from the Aberdeen Group. NEWS Microsoft vs. Novell, round two? (SearchWin2000.com) Some are suggesting the planned acquisition of SuSE Linux AG by Novell Inc. could reignite an old battle between Novell and Microsoft. Novell owned a competing network operating system for file and print services, which lost market share to Windows in the mid-1990s. It's a blow Novell has struggled to recover from. NEWS Microsoft's WLAN play changes game (SearchMobileComputing.com) Microsoft's arrival in the wireless LAN management space with a product that simplifies Wi-Fi deployment and setup is evidence that not only is the software giant looking to expand its presence in the enterprise, but it's also looking to push smaller vendors out of the market. DAILY HEADLINES All headlines, including those below, are available from our news page.   >  Microsoft gets judicial surprise   >  CIOs go hog mild over new MS Office   >  Computer forensics not just for TV   VIEW ALL NEWS AND TOP STORIES  Announcements & Links   CHAPTER OF THE WEEK Clustered solutions with WinServer 2003 This chapter from Windows Server 2003 Clustering and Load Balancing by Robert Shimonski walks you through the start-to-finish process of designing, installing and configuring all aspects of a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise clustered solution in a failover design. The cluster will contain two nodes, both running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition, set up in an active/passive configuration. 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. MEMBER POLL Security updates What do you think of Microsoft's new monthly security updates? >>  Click here to rock the vote. IT SURVIVAL KIT End the EFS wars All versions of Windows 2000 support the Encrypted File System (EFS), an extension to NTFS that allows users to encrypt files on-disk. EFS uses system-level certificates to encrypt the data. However, the algorithms used in these encryption certificates vary with each version of Windows 2000 (as well as XP and Windows Server 2003). LEARNING GUIDE Managing your Active Directory So you've designed, tested and rolled out Active Directory. Now what? SearchWin2000.com has gathered the best AD administration and management resources to help you take the next step. BEST WEB LINKS Server management This reader's digest of server management articles offers advice on server configuration, deployment, administration, consolidation and more. THE MISSING LINK Tech downturn brings a slump in humor, too Top techies have long been known as pranksters, but it seems that, when revenues are down, Silicon Valley's full of frowns. A former Apple Computer employee turned comic explains it this way: When you're successful you're irreverent and when you're not you're obnoxious. Currently Intel, IBM and Sun are sponsoring satirical Web sites that poke fun at competitors and themselves -- but unless profits skyrocket the only thing that might put the "silly" back in Silicon Valley would be installing Moe, Larry and Curly on IBM's board of directors. Nyuk nyuk nyuk. Sign up for our white paper alerts today! Enter your e-mail and start receiving White Paper Alerts. E-mail    Not a member? 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