This Week: IT pros debate IE cons

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Published by SearchWin2000.com  August 09, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the Editor: Is Internet Explorer in your future? >> Featured Topic: Group Policy 101 >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Tony Northrup, IIS and Web Administration Site Exclusives: >>Advice from Security expert Roberta Bragg >>Protecting DNS Servers - Part 3 >>Oops! True IT Blooper #146: Monitoring seasickness Tip of the Week: Lack of response after USB-PS/2 keyboard switch >> Site Highlights: White Paper: IT consolidation with Linux Webcast: Back to the future with thin clients Webcast: Best practices for upgrading NT domains to Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory domains  From the Editor: Is Internet Explorer in your future? by Jennifer Luscomb, Assistant Editor In a recent SearchWin2000.com survey of nearly 600 IT professionals, respondents were extremely divided on whether to stick with Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the wake of the Scob (Download.Ject) Internet attacks. The survey found that 39% planned to dump IE, 35% said they would keep using it and 24% favored using IE in addition to some other browser. Readers who e-mailed us or posted messages in our Sound Off forum were equally split on the issue. Check out a sampling of reader opinions. Did you miss the chance to give your opinion? E-mail us with it now!. Do you have a question about Internet Explorer? Ask our expert Tony Northrup. Hope you are enjoying your summer! -Jennifer Luscomb, Assistant Editor  Featured Topic: Group Policy 101 by Vandana Sharma, Assistant Editor Is the vast world of Group Policy driving you crazy? You're not alone! Get the scoop from our articles, tipsters and site experts, and learn how to be a Group Policy pro. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Tony Northrup Categories: IIS and Web Administration Dear Tony, I'd appreciate your advice in the proper and most efficient steps for migrating my NT 4.0 SP6a Web server running IIS 4.0 to another, newly-built Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0. The NT4 Web server is a Pentium III, RAID-5 with 9 GB SCSI drives while the new Win2K Server is a XEON, RAID-5 with 36 GB drives. The goal is to minimize the pain while preserving the file and perms structure. Read Tony's response. Site Exclusives: >> How do I configure Windows 2000 or 2003 using NAT to share Internet access and restrict user logon duration? Security expert Roberta Bragg offers step-by-step instructions for configuring NAT and the NAT service. >> Protecting DNS Servers - Part 3 The previous two articles in this series discussed improving the security of DNS by preventing unwanted remote access to DNS across a network. However, there is still a possibility of a malicious person gaining access to your DNS server. If that happens, you must rely upon internal DNS security precautions. Here's how. >> Oops! True IT Blooper #146: Monitoring seasickness You've probably read about the hazards of excessive exposure to computer monitors and the magnetic fields they emit. But as developer Torin Blair found out, that is not the only ill you can contract from a misbehaving monitor. This is his story... Tip of the Week: Windows supports both USB and PS/2 keyboards, and can in fact support having more than one such input device plugged in at a time. However, swapping out USB and PS/2 keyboards can cause problems in Windows. Site expert Serdar Yegulalp explains how to avoid and fix this situation. >> Lack of response after USB-PS/2 keyboard switch  Site Highlights White paper alert IT consolidation with Linux This White Paper provides an in-depth discussion of the migration to the Linux platform in a single-reference engineering perspective. Webcast alert Back to the future with thin clients In this webcast, learn about the new wave of thin access devices and whether they fit in your network. Webcast alert Best practices for upgrading NT domains to Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory domains Planning is essential for the simple task of upgrading from an NT domain to an AD domain. 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