Lessons Learned: Tales of a PDC upgrade
A real world account of a large Windows 2000 Migration that hit a few snags. Discusses DNS issues, license logging service problems, client logon failures, and includes a summary of lessons learned. A must read for those migrating to Windows 2000 and planning to upgrade their NT 4.0 PDC's.  Source: Swynk

Whose hard drive is it anyway?
An obscure proposal now pending before a technology standards committee could lay the groundwork for manufacturers to include content-protection capabilities on your next hard drive. Opponents contend that the plan will lead to content protection on hard drives, limiting how you can use your PC by curtailing the exchange of digital audio, video, and information. Some claim it is the first step toward the end of free content on the Web. Source: PCWorld (Jan 30, 2001)

Avoid the ostrich approach to security
Amazingly, many companies still take an apathetic approach to security because they don't believe a security disaster will ever happen to them. The sad fact is that intrusions are on the rise and the scope and complexity of what we have to protect has increased dramatically. In addition, the attacks and intrusions have become much more sophisticated. How will you detect rogue business processes that are intertwined with your electronic trade?. Source: Windows 2000 Advantage

Migration migraines
Moving from Windows NT domains to Active Directory is never simple, even with the four products we tested that are supposed to ease the pain. These third-party products are Aelita Software's Controlled Migration Suite, BindView's bv-Admin for Windows 2000 Migration, FastLane Technologies' DM/Manager and NetIQ's Domain Migration Administrator (DMA). Source: Network World Fusion (Jan 29, 2001)

Windows 2000 disk quotas limitations
Quotas are a feature of the version 5 of NTFS, introduced with Windows 2000. Although I doubt that anyone is planning on using FAT or FAT32 for user data volumes, there are implications of the fact that the quota information resides in the file system, rather than registry. Source: Swynk.com (Jan 25, 2001)

One gigantic security hole--patches not being used
What good is a Band-Aid if you don't use it? Although software makers routinely release 'fixes' designed to plug security holes, the antidotes are often ignored. Failing to responsibly patch computers led to 99 percent of the 5,823 Web site defacements last year, up 56 percent from the 3,746 Web sites defaced in 1999, according to security group Attrition.org.

Tech Update: Pushing security to network endpoints
Ubiquitous network access from inside and outside companies has necessitated an additional type of firewall - the host-resident firewall. Host-resident firewalls include personal firewalls for remote users, firewall agents for workstations and application-server resident firewalls. Source: Network World Fusion

Analysis of Alleged Vulnerability in Windows 2000 Syskey and the Encrypting File System
The Microsoft Security Response Center has received and investigated a number of reports regarding the security of Syskey and EFS in Windows 2000. Both are secure when used properly. Source: TechNet

Copy protection on Whistler easily cracked
Whistler's copy protection is by no means uncrackable, according to various of The Register's shady sources. The hardware-locked key system currently shipping with the Whistler beta seems to be fairly easy to get around, and the inconvenience of the system - if it ships with the production Whistler - will be likely to encourage the widespread use of cracks, and even of doctored installation disks that are entirely unlocked. Source: The Register

Disaster Diary
A bank IT manager recounts dealing with disaster: During a remodeling to fix some cosmetic problems, workers discovered large cracks that exposed corroded tension cables - the tendons that hold the building and its prestressed concrete together. This meant the structural integrity of the building couldn't be guaranteed. Upper management quickly declared a crisis and ordered everyone to evacuate the building.

A plea for Civility
An IT manager challenges his peers to change their attitudes to improve relations with end users. We have to ask ourselves whether we are in control of our attitudes on the job. Source: Network World Fusion (Jan 15, 2001)

Wielding Influence
As corporate customers continue to account for the bulk of PC vendors' earnings, the influence of their corporate buying habits -- which are making the transition from traditional PCs to mobile, wireless, and appliancelike devices -- will likely have a direct effect on the shape of future PC vendor offerings for both the consumer and commercial markets. Source: InfoWorld

Windows NT: a hacker's best friend
What do NASA, the Communications Workers of America and Palminfocenter.com have in common? Their Web sites were all defaced at different times last year by a hacker using a security weakness in Windows NT, the precursor to Microsoft's Windows 2000 server software.