February 1998 - Magazine Archive

[Focus]

Get a Head Start on NT 5.0 with Dfs
Microsoft's Distributed File System lets you organize shares and directories into one hierarchy, provide fault tolerance, and balance loads.
— Douglas Toombs

Windows Scripting Host in Action
If you've ben searching for information about how to implement Microsoft's new Windows Scripting Host, look no further. This pratical guide shows you how to use WSH to automate common setup, configuration, and administrative tasks.
— Keith Pleas

[Feature]

10 Steps to Prepare for NT 5.0 Now
NT 5.0 is coming, and the migration process will not be as easy as you've learned to expect from previous versions of NT. Here's how to get a jump on the NT rollout.
— Sean Daily

7 Steps to Migrating from Banyan to Windows NT
Banyan VINES has an enterprise-class directory service (StreetTalk), supports a large number of users, peforms well, and simplifies management. Yet VINES users are migrating to NT in masses. Find out why, learn how to choose a migration strategy, and ex
— Mark Smith

Exchange 5.5/E and Microsoft Cluster Server
Exchange 5.5/E supports clustering and an unlimited information store.
— Tony Redmond

Integrating Windows NT into a UNIX Environment
UNIX administrators can get a crash course in NT basics and learn how Switzerland's Comit Gruppe migrated apps from UNIX to NT.
— Brian Honan

Introduction to IIS 4.0 with MTS and DCOM
Microsoft's Windows Distributed interNet Application Architecture gives you the tools you need to distribute ActiveX components and transactions from your Web server.
— Ken Spencer

Living with Alpha: Finding Help
Here's your personal road map to the best Alpha-and-NT information in print and online.
— Aaron Sakovich

SBS's Modem Pooling Service and Built-in Fax Server: Good Things Do Come in Small Packages
Companies with fewer than 26 employees have an edge over regular NT users: They can take advantage of SBS's modem pooling service and built-in fax server.
— Douglas Toombs

The Accidental Hacker
By chance, a good guy found serious holes in a company's network. He tells you how you can avoid that company's security mistakes.
— Andrey Kruchkov

Understanding and Using LoadSim 5.0: Part 2
Configure LoadSim to ensure that your server sufficiently handles the number of users you specify with response times of 1 second or less.
— Greg Todd

[Reader to Reader]

Reader to Reader - February 1998
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 Daze
Scalability issues of both Windows NT 5.0 and hardware.
— Mark Smith

[Internals]

Inside Microsoft Cluster Server
The clustering solution you used to know as Wolfpack features extensible architecture and has already garnered widespread industry support. Learn how this cluster server works and why it will probably become the industry standard.
— Mark Russinovich

[Product Reviews]

HP SureStore CD-Writer Plus 7100e
HP's SureStore CD-Writer is a CE-RW drive that comes in two versions: internal and external.
— Brian Gallagher

Intel Express10/100 Stackable Hub
Intel Express 10/100 Stackable Hub lets you switch between 10Mbps and 100Mbps network speeds by pressing a button.
— Brian Gallagher

KeepCool 3.1
KeepCool 3.1 from PalmSun Software can help you manage remote computer systems by taking hardware and software inventories, performing remote hard disk maintenance, distributing software and editing remote machines' system files.
— Michael P. Deignan

PenPartner
Wacom Technology's PenPartner pointing device supports Windows NT.
— John Enck

QuotaAdvisor NT, Enterprise Edition
QuotaAdvisor NT, Enterprise Edition, from W. Quinn Associates lets you generate reports about user's disk consuption, identify large-consuption users, and implement a series of controls that limit user storage.
— Michael P. Deignan

RAS Manager for Windows NT 4.0
Ras Manager from NTP Software lets you impose limits on users and monitor remote access to a greater degree that you can with NT's standare RAS support.
— William Wong

ViaVoice
IBM has progressed significantly in the voice recognition software with the release of its new product, ViaVoice.
— Mark Joseph Edwards

WorldMark 4300
NCR's WorkdMark 4300 Server is a medium-scale commercial server that maximizes performance and flexibility.
— Carlos Bernal

[Lab Notes]

I'm Still Dazed and Numb
Waging war with US West: One Lab Guy experiences the trials and tribulations of ISDN installation.
— John Enck

[Inside Out]

Active Directory: The Sin of Subdivision
NT's Security Accounts Manager has deadly sins that prevent it from serving large clients well. Windows NT 5.0's Active Directory expiates the sins. NT is now enterprise ready.
— Mark Minasi

[Getting Started with NT]

User Rights
You can customize rights in NT and still maintain control of your network.
— Michael D. Reilly

[Scripting Solutions]

Managing NT Event Logs with Perl for Win32: Part 1
Combine GenEvent.pl with a third-party event log monitoring tool to track the results of your Perl automation scripts.
— Bob Wells

[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Learn how to copy temporary data within a stored procedure, send long messages from xp_sendmail, drop persistent tables, keep tabs on open objects space, adjust login passwords with Perfmon, number sequence gaps in IDENTITY columns, and demoralize databas
— Brian Moran , et al.

[This Old Resource Kit]

NLTEST
This utility lets you quickly test the status of the NetLogon linkages between machines and monitor trust relationships.
— Mark Minasi

[Tricks & Traps]

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Explore defining device driver startup option in NT, weighing the benefits of using workstations vs. terminals to connect to NT Server, running NT on a notebook, and changing SIDs 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.
— Mark Joseph Edwards , et al.

[Lab Feature]

A Thin-Client Solution for X Terminals and More
Here's the second installment, highlighting thin-client product NTERPRISE 1.3, in the Lab's ongoing review of corporate desktop systems.
— John Enck

Network Backup Software
Examine two more solutions in the Lab's ongoing review of network backup software.
— Brian Gallagher

So Many Faxes, So Little Time
The Lab's investigation into fax server products continues with this month's installment of product reviews.
— Michael P. Deignan