July 1997 - Magazine Archive

[Focus]

Exchange and Groupware
Exchange's public folders provide easy access to information and let users share documents.
— Tony Redmond

Lotus Domino 4.5 Server and Notes 4.5 Client
This leader among enterprise-class groupware products is tightly integrated with Windows NT and now has increased functionality and a Web server.
— Carlos Bernal

Netscape's Collaborative Solution
Collaborate with other users over LANs, WANs, and the Internet with Netscape's collaborative offerings.
— Jeff Shapiro

Pathways to Collaboration
Combine email, groupware, whiteboarding, and videoconferencing to build a new, cooperative business model.
— Jeff Shapiro

Using Microsoft's Internet News Server
Now your users can have their news and read it too with the Network News Transfer Protocol.
— Spyros Sakellariadis

[Feature]

Foil Attacks on Your Registry
The NT Registry is the Achilles' heel of your system's security. Here are three common hacker's goals and some tips about safeguarding your server's Registry.
— John J. Meixner

MCSE for Windows NT 4.0
Understand course requirements, locate available resources, and determine what to look for in an MSCE training center.
— Steven W. Linthicum

Migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server
Maintain Internet mail flow, preserve users' Internet mail addresses, and archive external messages while you migrate to Exchange.
— Dave Johnson

Multiple Virtual Domains with One IP Address
Discover two ways to set up virtual domains with one IP address.
— Tong Lai Yu

NAdminNT Brings NT Domains and NDS Together
Access and manage NDS users and NT domain users and groups through one interface with Novell Administrator for Windows NT.
— Craig Zacker

Network Monitoring with SMS
SMS's underdocumented Network Monitor lets you observe dozens of network protocols so that you can diagnose network problems.
— Michael P. Deignan

NT Security Scares?
Do you need to worry about the current NT security scares, or is the current gang of so-called NT security experts just overreacting?
— Mark Minasi

[Reader to Reader]

Reader to Reader - July 1997
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
— Readers

[Editorial]

Scalability Politics
If you need enterprise scalability now, look to Microsoft's partners that have mature products and a history of scalability, and avoid the politics.
— Mark Smith

[Internals]

Inside the Windows NT Scheduler, Part 1
Find out about the priority levels NT assigns to threads, how Win32 programs specify thread priorities, what situations invoke the scheduler, and how NT's uniprocessor scheduling algorithms works.
— Mark Russinovich

[Product Reviews]

AppManager
AppManager from NetIQ is one of the first packages to monitor all aspects of NT-based applications, including application services.
— Jonathan Chau

ARPEGGIO for the Desktop
Wall Data's ARPEGGIO Information Publisher is a suite of data access products that lets users at all levels access and publish information from host, client/ server, and PC databases.
— Jonathan Chau

DTK APRI-32
DTK APRI-32 DualPentium Pro 200MHz has speed and reliability with two processors.
— Dean Porter

FormScape
FormScape from AFP Technology is an enterprise output management sytem that lets you centralize form design and control the flow of output within your organization from one server.
— Michael P. Deignan

Keyfile Keyflow
Keyfile Keyflow tracks your project's progress through email.
— Michael P. Deignan

Norton Administrator Suite
Norton Administrator Suite Premier Edition lets you manage every Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 computer on the network from one console.
— Jonathan Chau

Professional Workstation 5000
Compaq optimizes its Professional Workstations for specialized technical and business applications in mechanical CAD, finance, and software engineering and content development environments.
— Carlos Bernal

[Inside Out]

Attaching to a File Server
Here's part two of what goes on behind the scenes when you log on to an NT machine.
— Mark Minasi

[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
The SQL Server gurus tackle service packs, laptop installation, transaction log and the master device relocation, and log utilization.
— Brian Moran , et al.

[Tricks & Traps]

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Activate Plug and Play in NT, avoid the blue screen of death, easily remove the POSIX and OS/2 components, and find a graphics display card to work in NT.
— Bob Chronister

[News]

NT News Network
This department focuses on what's new in operating systems, hardware, software, support, scalability, the enterprise and Windows NT's take on the trends in the marketplace.
— Chris Bajorek , et al.

[Interoperability]

Java: The Buzz from Beyond
Java's role is growing in the development of cross-platform applications. It turns up where you least expect it.
— John Enck

[WebDev]

Allaire HomeSite.2.5
Combine a Web editor with a built-in notepad and file manager and you get Allaire HomeSite 2.5.
— T.J. Harty

[New to NT]

Printing with Windows NT
Explore NT's print server features and understand Microsoft printer terminology.
— Michael D. Reilly

[Lab Feature]

AccessNFS
Intergraph offers several products to accommodate NFS access from NT.
— John Enck

Desktop DBA 4.0
Platinum Technology's Desktop DBA 4.0 is 32-bit database administration software that runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms.
— Karen Watterson

KVM Switches Roundup
A review of six KVM switches with a variety of features.
— Joel Sloss