This week on Network World Fusion, 11/03/03

1) Microsoft begins to flesh out ambitious management platform 2) HP, other vendors bolster utility computing product plans via acquisitions 3) Feature: CSI – Lost e-mails 4) Sector Spotlight: Real-time survival 5) Review: NetWare 6.5 6) Product Peek: SyslogAnalyzer 2.0 7) Review: Exchange Server 2003, Outlook 2003 8) Security notes: Passwords – seven virtues, seven sins 9) Technology Update: XKMS does the heavy work of PKI 10) Management Strategies: Language lessons 11) Server management tools grow up 12) Case study: Bear Stearns is bullish on VoIP 13) Long-haul ‘fiber glut’ persists 14) Wireless Notes: Tales from the WLAN tour 15) Proposed provisioning technology set to go 16) IBM racing ahead with component strategy 17) Enterasys, Netgear target SMB networks 18) Management Notes: Baby steps

1) Microsoft eyes ID management

2) Users betting big on RFID

3) College WLANs put to the test

4) Face-off: Protecting American IT jobs

5) Top ISP Report

6) Wireless Wizards: Testing Wi-Fi gear for standards compliance

7) Nutter’s Help Desk: Cisco remote-office security options

8) Management Notes: Services on the menu

9) Security Notes: When it comes to security, some just say ‘zip it’

10) Sneaker company steps up to a unified SAN backbone

11) VoIP by the numbers – measuring IP-telephony savings

12) Product Peek: CCM Version 2 eases Nortel VPN management

13) Product Peek: Free MS tool pushes Windows image across the net

14) Technology Update: 802.16a wireless links the last mile

15) Management Strategies: Web-services wisdom

16) Hospital: Prognosis good for WLANs

17) Lucent/Juniper alliance bears fruit

18) Help desks look to reinvent their mission

19) Challenges abound archiving company e-mail

1) Microsoft eyes ID management

Microsoft is working on identity technology for its future Longhorn operating system that it hopes will evolve into a cross-platform, standard format that companies can use to secure digital relationships and share resources.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103msindentity.html

2) Users betting big on RFID

See how businesses are using the technology to tighten supply chains.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103forrester.html

3) College WLANs put to the test

Each freshman class at Dartmouth College is unique, but this year’s crop has at least one thing in common with other classes across the country: a passion for wireless networks.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103campuswlan.html

4) Face-off: Protecting American IT jobs

Face-off: Should the government do more to protect American IT workers from globalization? See what Matthew Biggs, legislative/political director of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers and Scott Turner, senior systems engineer with NaviSite, have to say. Then jump in with your comments.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=915

5) Top ISP Report

See how your provider rates in our monthly report on the best dial-up ISPs.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/topisp.html

6) Wireless Wizards: Testing Wi-Fi gear for standards compliance

This week, the Wizards explain how Wi-Fi devices are certified

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1103wizards.html

7) Nutter’s Help Desk: Cisco remote-office security options

Ron Nutter helps a user seeking best practices for securing remote offices with Cisco gear.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1103nutter.html

8) Management Notes: Services on the menu

Senior Writer Denise Dubie takes a look at the management service providers that are still in business – and how they’ve shifted their focus.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/management/003657.html

9) Security Notes: When it comes to security, some just say ‘zip it’

PKZip used to be just a tool to save disk space and bandwidth by compressing files. Senior Editor Ellen Messmer looks at how some companies are now using it – and its new encryption support – to protect sensitive data shared with partners.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/security/003685.html

10) Sneaker company steps up to a unified SAN backbone

How New Balance built a storage-area network to accommodate a new business-process tool.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/1103newbalance.html

11) VoIP by the numbers – measuring IP-telephony savings

IP telephony can save hard dollars – if you know how to measure them.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2003/1103voip.html

12) Product Peek: CCM Version 2 eases Nortel VPN management

With the release of Contivity Configuration Manager Version 2 this summer, Nortel has to a degree simplified configuration and control of multiple Contivity devices.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/1103productpeek.html

13) Product Peek: Free MS tool pushes Windows image across the net

Microsoft’s Automated Deployment Services is a free download that manages the distribution of network operating systems and application disk images to servers across companies.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/1103msadsdoc.html

14) Technology Update: 802.16a wireless links the last mile

With throughput up to 75M bit/sec, the wireless standard gives companies another way to get business-quality broadband service.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2003/1103techupdate.html

15) Management Strategies: Web-services wisdom

Forward-thinking companies are creating a management position to oversee deployment of service-oriented architecture.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2003/1103man.html

16) Hospital: Prognosis good for WLANs

Connecticut hospital IS honcho talks moving ahead with everything from Wi-Fi to voice over IP to Web services.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1027yourtake.html

17) Lucent/Juniper alliance bears fruit

Lucent and Juniper last week unveiled the first fruits of their six-month union: product combinations designed to let service providers better integrate legacy services and infrastructures with newer IP offerings.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103luniper.html

18) Help desks look to reinvent their mission

New automated systems are increasingly making help desks or at least some of their members expendable. But managers overseeing these support groups argue that phasing out people can only go so far.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103helpdesk.html

19) Challenges abound archiving company e-mail

Pressured by fines and threats of imprisonment for noncompliance with federal and state regulations, IT executives slowly are deploying systems that archive their e-mail and instant-messaging communications.

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https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103specialfocus.html