March 1999 - Magazine Archive

[Focus]

Optimizing NTFS
Examine your storage needs and tailor your NTFS volumes accordingly to increase your NTFS volumes' performance.
— Sean Daily

Segmenting Your Network
To get the most out of performance tuning your software, make sure your network is running efficiently.
— Douglas Toombs

Tuning NT Server Disk Subsystems
Keeping your disk subsystem in shape can improve your overall NT performance. Learn how to group similar disk activities, apply the appropriate allocation unit size, and load balance your disk subsystem.
— Curt Aubley

WINS and DHCP Preventive Maintenance
NT 4.0 administrators can prevent network problems by properly maintaining the WINS and DHCP databases.
— Darren Mar-Elia

[Feature]

Migrating NT Workstations to a New Domain
Three logon scripts let you move NT workstations between domains without requiring user or administrator action at the client desktop.
— Robert Schwendinger , et al.

Moving Mailboxes Between Servers
Use Microsoft utilities to move user mailboxes between servers in the same site or in different sites.
— Tony Redmond

PPTP Provides Secure Connectivity to Your Corporate Network
PPTP offers an inexpensive alternative to a corporate WAN. Learn about PPTP's improvements in SP4.
— Paula Sharick

Service Pack 4
NT 4.0's SP4 offers several fixes that make NT networking easier for administrators.
— Mark Minasi

Tombstones Mark the Coming of the End for WINS
Microsoft has improved WINS in Windows 2000. Even though TCP/IP is the chosen protocol of the Internet, you might work with WINS on your desktop OSs for a while. Here's how the new WINS can make your life easier.
— Alistair G. Lowe-Norris

Using COMTI to Connect NT and IBM Mainframes
COMTI integrates Component Object Model technology with IBM mainframe transaction programs. Here's how you can use COMTI to deliver mainframe data to NT and your Web applications.
— Tao Zhou

[Reader Challenge]

Reader Challenge
Solve this month's Windows NT problem and get the change to win $100 or a copy of one of the author's books about NT. Prior month's winner is announced at bottom of page.
— Kathy Ivens

[Reader to Reader]

Reader to Reader - March 1999
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
— Readers

[Editorial]

Embrace and Extend
Oracle's Larry Ellison thinks Microsoft's monopoly will end soon.
— Mark Smith

[ForefroNT]

SMP--It's Not Just for the Server Anymore
NT and SMP can finally make the most of vendor applications.
— David Chernicoff

[En Garde]

Toward More Reliable Software
The final release of Windows 2000 will have 40 million lines of code. The average commercial software has 15 bugs per 1000 lines of code. This statistic means we can expect Win2K to have about 600,000 bugs.
— Mark Minasi

[Internals]

Inside NT Networking
By peeling away the layers of NT's network architecture, I'll show you how this architecture implements network programming APIs.
— Mark Russinovich

[Product Reviews]

Aelita Enterprise Suite
Manage your NT enterprise environment with Aelita Enterprise Suite's collection of programs.
— Michael P. Deignan

ClickNet Y2k 5.0
ClickNet Y2K is an inexpensive, automated program that collects information about your hardware and software infrastructure and identifies potential Y2K-compliance problems.
— Michael P. Deignan

I-Gear 2.8
Uncontrolled Internet access can lead to situations that damage your business so controlling and tracking Internet use is paramount to protecting your business.
— Mark Joseph Edwards

Nokia 500Xa
Flat panel display comes of age with the Nokia 500Xa
— Brian Gallagher

NT School MCSE Boot Camp
One of the Lab Guys attends boot camp in Florida, feels the pain, and obtains his MCSE.
— Jonathan Cragle

Open File Manager 5.1
Handle open files during backup with Open File Manager 5.1
— William Wong

Panda Antivirus 6.0
Panda's antivirus solution detects viruses in email clients.
— Michael P. Deignan

PC-DVD Encore Dxr2
A DVD-ROM multimedia solution for PCs
— Jonathan Chau

PowerEdge 6300
Get quad-Xeon performance in a space-saving design
— John Green

Professional Workstation SP700
Parallel architecture provides performance
— Brian Gallagher

Streaming Video from End to End
This month, one of the Lab Guys reviews RealNetwork's RealSystem G2 network-based video distribution software, and Sony's PCR-DC1 Digital Handycam camcorder.
— Brian Gallagher

WrapUp-98 2.1a
A tool that helps complete tasks during logoff.
— Marty Scher

[Lab Notes]

Dog Food to Go
This Lab Guy's persistence pays off as he learns that he can live with Terminal Server and MetaFrame to handle day-to-day computing.
— John Enck

[Inside Out]

DHCP Recovery
What would you do if DHCP server failed? Prepare now to make restoring the DHCP database fairly painless.
— Mark Minasi

[Getting Started with NT]

The Browser Service
The browser service is more complicated than you might think. Learn how it works and how to maximize its efforts.
— Michael D. Reilly

[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Learn about MCDBA certification, Unicode strings, ISQL/w query results, ODBC driver installation, DUMP TRAN commands, and the new Index Tuning Wizard.
— Brian Moran , et al.

[Watch Your RAS]

Microsoft Connection Manager
Microsoft Connection Manager can simplify establishing dial-up connections and automate remote client phone book updating.
— Sean Daily

[This Old Resource Kit]

NETDOM
Make and break trust relationships from the command line.
— Mark Minasi

[Tricks & Traps]

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Larn about source routing in a mixed network environment, upgrading Win9x workstations to NT 4.0, and creating an unattended installation of SP4.
— Bob Chronister

[TOP 10]

NET Commands
The author reveals his 10 favorite NET commands and offers tips for each of them.
— Michael Otey