Windows 2000 bug reports and hotfixes have slowed to a trickle during the past few months. This slowdown always presages the release of a new service pack. As of June 8, the Microsoft Knowledge Base contained 23 Win2K...
Many of us implement Network Address Translation (NAT) on firewalls and routers as the first line of defense in protecting internal systems. When NAT is active and a user connects to a system on the Internet, the...
In keeping with the bimonthly schedule of updates, Microsoft released a security rollup for Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 through IE 6.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on April 23. As is standard with rollups, this release...
This morning, I found ten messages in my Inbox from [email protected], with subject lines of "Cool screensaver," "Re:My details," and others from the list below. According to Central Command's Emergency Virus...
Several months ago, I stopped by the office of one of my clients to perform a server health check. The client’s server farm includes a Web server that's used primarily by internal network users. Through RRAS and a...
Windows 2000's Device Manager and Add Printer Wizard can update drivers automatically, which is handy when you want to take advantage of the newer features on network or video cards or when you install a new, high...
A System File Checker Bug The System File Checker (SFC) utility is part of the Windows File Protection (WFP) feature in Windows XP and Windows 2000. WFP ensures that Microsoft and third-party software installations...
The Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) code in all Windows platforms (and in many versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer—IE) is vulnerable to security breaches. During the past year, Microsoft published several updates...
New Qchain Release Corrects Versioning Bug If you use a script to install multiple hotfixes with only one system restart, you probably invoke the Qchain utility at the end of the script. Qchain examines the files...
Now that references to Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows 2000 SP4 are appearing in Microsoft documents, it’s time to review the procedure you follow to combine hotfixes with a slipstream installation...