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Daily Newsletter 07/03/2003

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Today's Articles Hard to keep up on the great information from myITforum's knowledgeable columnists? We deliver the new stuff to you every day. Or, you can sift through our newsletter archive to find issues you've missed.

Altiris

	What process does Notification Server and its various suites use to determine how many nodes are in use?
	by A Williams - 7/3/2003
	This article explains how we determine the number of nodes in use. The mechanism is SQL queries that you can easily see what is used to determine these values.
MOM

	MOM FAQ: Management Pack Updates
	by Rod Trent - 7/3/2003
	How can I know which management packs have been updated for SP1?
Patch Management

	Beginners Guide to Enterprise Patch Management
	by Richard Threlkeld - 7/3/2003
	A Beginners Guide to Enterprise Patch Management designed as a high level design overview for your companies IT Infrastructure strategy
PocketPC

	Recording Gotcha in PPC 2003
	by Rod Trent - 7/3/2003
	A PocketPC 2003 device can and will record until all memory is used up.
SMS 2.x

	SP5 Upgrade Fails on SQL Command UNSUPPORTED PLATFORM!
	by Ed Aldrich - 7/3/2003
	So you're nervously watching the old Progress Bar creep along on your SP5 upgrade, when it bombs out on some obscure error from SQL that says you're on an Unsupported Platform! What do you do? Here's one solution crafted by Rick Crawford!
SMS 2003

	SMS 2003 Web Reporting
	by Gary Collins - 7/3/2003
	Here is a step-by-step procedure for creating an SMS 2003 Reporting Point, making a dashboard, new reports and creating categories.
VB Scripting

	Setting the Account to not Expire
	by Rod Trent - 7/3/2003
	Use this VB Script to configure an account so that it will not expire.
Windows

	Enabling the Quick Launch Bar
	by Rod Trent - 7/3/2003
	Using a couple registry edits, you can enable the Quick Launch bar through a script. Thanks to Alex Verboon for sitting through a Microsoft support call for this information.

Random Archives No one person can keep up with the amount of information stored at myITforum.com. So here's your daily dose of some past articles you may have missed.

	SMS 2.0 Remote Control and Windows 2000 IP Security
	by Rod Trent - 8/26/2001
	If you are noticing Remote Control connection issues with Windows 2000 computers you will want to identify if Windows 2000's IP Security is implemented, either on the server of the workstation, or both.

	Enforcing Strong Passwords in Windows 2000
	by Rod Trent - 3/19/2002
	In Windows NT 4.0 you had to install a special file and modify the registry for strong password usage. Windows 2000 does this through Group Policy.

Today's NewsLinks News, news, news. What's hot? What's not? Too many online resources. Delivered to your inbox, we keep you up-to-date with the latest news.

New Sluter virus free with its favors
7/2/2003
Sophos has alerted users of a network-aware worm that attacks with a range of just 16 passwords. Weak passwords are often the favorite exploit of viruses targeting home users, and Sluter-A uses an array of 16 variations based on just eight passwords.

California Supreme Court says anti-Intel e-mail not trespassing
7/2/2003
A fired Intel Corp. employee did not trespass on his former company's e-mail servers when he inundated company employees with electronic complaints, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that tested the bounds of free speech in cyberspace.

Oracle gives PeopleSoft window to seal J.D. Edwards deal
7/2/2003
Oracle on Tuesday agreed to postpone a court hearing in its $6.3 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft, removing a major potential barrier to PeopleSoft's planned friendly acquisition of J.D. Edwards, a smaller Denver-based software rival. Oracle said by mutual agreement with PeopleSoft and other parties, a July 16 hearing in Delaware Chancery Court will be put off indefinitely.

Microsoft trumps Linux for Euro contracts
7/2/2003
Microsoft announced a trio of European government contract wins on Tuesday, the latest salvo in the growing turf battle between the software giant and sellers of the upstart Linux software. The Redmond, Wash., software giant would not disclose financial terms of the deals, which it said it won after competing head-to-head for the business with various Linux companies.

Commentary: Will This Feud Choke the Life Out of Linux?
7/2/2003
By raising national security concerns, software maker SCO's suit against IBM hamstrings the open-source movement. The $1 billion lawsuit that SCO Group (SCOX ) Inc. filed against IBM in March is turning into something akin to water torture. Every few weeks, there's a new allegation or announcement from the tiny Lindon (Utah) software company, provoking fears that it will enforce its intellectual property rights against sellers of the Linux computer operating system.

Microsoft fixes another flaw in Passport
7/2/2003
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has fixed another security flaw in its popular Internet Passport service, which could have allowed hackers to hijack some older accounts. Microsoft senior manager Jeff Jones said he believes no Passport accounts were stolen. Jones declined to say how many people were at risk but said the flaw affected only a small number of users who had created their accounts more than four years ago. As part of its repair efforts late Monday, Microsoft briefly prevented some Passport users from manually changing their passwords.

Microsoft tweaks latest beta of Office
7/2/2003
Microsoft has released an unexpected update to its latest trial version of Office 2003, creating speculation that the product's commercial release may be late.

Toshiba offers notebook with 17-inch display
7/2/2003
The P25-S507 comes in a fixed configuration with a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor with hyperthreading, 512Mbytes of double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM, a 60Gbyte hard drive, a GeForce FX Go5200 graphics card from Nvidia with 32Mbytes of DDR video memory, a CD/DVD-R/RW drive, integrated 802.11a and 802.11b Wi-Fi, and Microsoft Windows XP Home for around $2,099. It is immediately available in the US through Toshiba America's website.

J.D. Edwards: Fighting to the finish
7/2/2003
What should you do when the world's second largest software company barges in on your friendly merger and tries to leave you out in the cold? If you're Robert Dutkowsky, head of J.D. Edwards, you dig your heels in, slap Larry Ellison and Oracle with an industrial espionage lawsuit and vow to fight until victory.

File-sharers plead for legitimacy
7/2/2003
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched an advertising campaign demanding changes in copyright law to legalize file sharing. The "Let the Music Play" campaign is intended to encourage the six million users of file-sharing software in the US to make their voices heard in government, as a counterweight to increasingly vehement condemnation of peer-to-peer file sharing networks by the entertainment industry.

Users face dilemma as Microsoft ends support for Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
7/2/2003
Corporate users needing assistance with the seven-year-old software will now have to rely on the company's self-help online option or contract with an outside company. Microsoft ended "mainstream support" for Windows NT 4.0 Workstation a year ago. Mainstream support included no-charge incident support, support for warranty claims, "hot fix" support, paid incident support and support charged on an hourly basis.

Feds warn of mass hacker attacks
7/2/2003
The government and private technology experts warned Wednesday that hackers plan to attack thousands of Web sites Sunday in a loosely coordinated “contest” that could disrupt Internet traffic.

Microsoft launches digital ID software
7/2/2003
Microsoft on Wednesday announced new software designed to automate the process of managing user authentication on corporate networks. The company said that Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003, which will be available to customers next month, will help businesses establish, manage and eventually delete user account information more easily.

Microsoft offers free e-book downloads
7/2/2003
As part of the five-month promotion, users can download three e-books a week from Microsoft's Web site via a Pocket PC, a Tablet PC, a laptop or a desktop. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, and Fear Itself by Walter Mosley are among the titles offered.

Today's Links Links to useful information and utilities to help you sift through the enormity of the Internet. We search so you can work.

Deploying .NET Framework Based Applications
7/2/2003
The guide provides information on deploying all types of Framework application using a variety of mechanisms, including no-touch deployment, and Windows Installer package deployment.

Troubleshooting Group Policy in Windows Server 2003
7/2/2003
This Group Policy white paper helps you troubleshoot the most common problems affecting the deployment of Group Policy.

KiXforms Designer
7/2/2003
This freeware tool provides a graphical interface to the creation of forms using the KiXforms DLL.

Today's Downloads This admin-to-admin feature of myITforum allows you and your peers to share files online. Have a solution? A utility? Think others can benefit from your knowledge? Upload it!!!! NOTE: You must be a member of myITforum to upload files.

VBS MSI CA Per User Repair	ehoush	MSI, VB Scripting	7/2/2003	185.2 kb

VBS Custom Action that automatically writes\removes ActiveSetup Reg keys to run per user repair for packages on NT or that don't have an entry point

Hot Forum Topics Our technical forums are always hopping. Read the hottest topics of the day, find an answer you have been looking for, or post an answer you've been keeping to yourself.

Job Board

Application Packager Needed--Florida--6 mos.

mbradley

7/1/2003 1:50:10 PM
mbradley

SQL Server

SQL SLAMMER LESSON: PATCH MANAGEMENT IS NOT ENOUGH

skuvshinkova

7/2/2003 2:41:30 AM
skuvshinkova

SMS Installer

Finding a substring

fracine

7/1/2003 2:11:19 PM
fracine

VB Script

WMI Impersonation Question

rmorris

7/1/2003 2:36:15 PM
ggreen681

SMS 2003

SMS 2003 Release Candidate 1 Has Shipped!

admin

7/2/2003 2:43:30 AM
iglatz

SMS 2.0

SMS vs. Active Directory for deployment

dmusante

7/2/2003 7:17:48 AM
jburke

Fun Link of the Day Because even IT professionals need to have some fun.

Cable Clock

http://www.andre-michelle.com/studies/cable_clock.htm

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