Today's News: Microsoft feels the wrath of Big Red

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Published by SearchWin2000.com   December 10, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  SearchWin2000.com Career Center: Click here to visit the Career Center today!  Top News of the Week  >>  BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft: Expect five security bulletins Tuesday >>  More NT support (for a fee), early signs of an SP SPONSORED BY: SearchWin2000.com Career Center Looking for a new job? Visit the SearchWin2000.com Career Center powered by Dice and find over 37,000 tech positions to choose from. And get the career resources you need to set yourself apart from other job seekers. Find training and certification resources, get help with your resume and more. Visit today! Click here to visit the Career Center today!  Headline  Microsoft feels the wrath of Big Red By John Hogan, Senior News Editor IBM may have finally found a way to get back at Microsoft for pulling out of OS/2 -- and to make Big Blue feel better about its monumental mistake of ceding the operating system market to Redmond in the 1980s. Call it the revenge of Big Red. Big Red is the clever moniker that BDA China consultant Duncan Clark attached to the tandem created by sale of IBM's PC business to China's Lenovo Group. While IBM has been on an "I Love Linux" campaign to the detriment of Microsoft in recent years, the hardware giant has a greater potential to harm Redmond's core business by arming the Chinese with a powerful brand. Click here to read more about the IBM-Lenovo deal, as well as for a wrap-up of the week's Windows news. More on this topic: >  Paid support for NT4 Server, Exchange 5.5 extended >  Release is a signal that Windows 2003 SP1 is near >  IM threat service pledges cooperation >  Don't get swept away by patch drift >  Taking a piecemeal approach to managing identities  Survival Tips for the Windows Manager   Chapter of the Week: 'Group Policy Objects (GPOs)' Need help managing or troubleshooting your GPOs? Then this chapter is for you. Get ready for an extensive run-down of various GPO-related problems and hands-on solutions to everything from GPO backup issues to applying stubborn GPO security filters. Tip of the Day: Perform bulk changes with ADModify Many administrators find themselves with the need to make modifications to multiple users at once using the same values. While Windows 2003 does have limited ability to modify multiple objects, it still lacks granularity and flexibility. For example, you can select and modify multiple users, groups or computers within Active Directory Users & Computers. Enter Microsoft's ADModify version 2.0. This tool, whose current version is referred to as ADModify.NET, gives administrators the ability to mass-manipulate just about every property within user, group, contact and public folder objects. Learning Center: Get up to speed -- Five topics fast Looking for a quick cram-session? Check out our five helpful learning guides and get up-to-speed fast. TRUE IT BLOOPERS Oops! True IT Blooper #163: The seventh sense -- common sense If you've ever been concerned that technology is taking some of the guesswork out of everyday life, then you must read about this technology mishap submitted by an IT worker at a large corporation in Delaware!  Vent!  Do you think Microsoft should release a SP5 for Windows 2000 instead of an Update Rollup? Take our latest poll and sound off. Member Surveys Enter your e-mail and start receiving Member Surveys. E-mail    Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription.   Contact Us   SENIOR NEWS EDITOR John Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your news, press releases and product announcements. SENIOR SITE EDITOR Marilyn Cohodas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your original articles and best practices. SITE SALES MANAGER Mike Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact me to sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter.   A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R Contact us: SearchWin2000 Member Services 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494 This e-newsletter is published by SearchWin2000.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. TechTarget offers magazines, Web sites, e-newsletters, Webcasts and conferences for enterprise IT professionals. Copyright 2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved. To unsubscribe from "Today's News": Go to unsubscribe: http://searchWin2000.techtarget.com/unsubscribe?cid=498630&lid=430722&track=NL-118&ad=498630 Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed.