Microsoft upgrades Server 2003

A spokesVole said that the release adds more security tools than you can poke a stick at to the package and enables network bods to manage their systems' security options a bit better.

One of the updates blocks all incoming traffic to the server until the latest patches have been applied.

The upgrade has a "security configuration wizard" that makes it easier for system administrators to set up more secure e-mail or Web use.

It also has many of the fixes from Windows XP SP2, along with the possibility that it will crash all your existing systems. It has taken Redmond more than two years to come up with the security upgrade, despite complaints from users that it needed one a long time ago. Vole admits that the upgrade was a bit tricky.

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