April 1998 - Magazine Archive

[Focus]

Exploring Netscape's Directory Server 3.0
This general-purpose directory stores, publishes, and centrally manages user, group, and other network information in one directory on your network.
— Tao Zhou

Metadirectories: Directory Services for the Enterprise
Examine products that integrate the functionality of multiple directory services into one NT directory.
— Craig Zacker

NetVision's Synchronicity for NT
NetVision's Synchronicity for NT typifies the replication-based metadirectory. Here's how the product works and why.
— Craig Zacker

Novell's NDS for NT
Novell's NDS for NT integrates NT domain user and group information into the NDS database to give you better directory performance and to simplify managing your heterogeneous network environment.
— William Wong

Zoomit VIA and the Dedicated Metadirectory
Hankering for a unified view of all the directories on your heterogeneous network? This solution offer full-featured metadirectory support and a robust directory service to help you create a single point of user administration.
— Craig Zacker

[Feature]

Application Management in NT 5.0
NT 5.0's application management features provide portable, self-installing, self-upgrading applications.
— Darren Mar-Elia

Creating Internet Videos on NT Systems
Roll 'em! Understand and overcome the challenges of transmitting videos over the Internet.
— Clayton Johnson

Inside the Exchange Information Store
In this first of a two-part examination of the Exchange Information Store, you'll learn how the Information Store is structured and how it processes transactions.
— Tony Redmond

Load Sharing for Your NT Web Server
DNS's round-robin function is an easy and effective way to increase your Web server's functionality by distributing its load.
— Douglas Toombs

Managing Your Web Site with IIS 4.0
IIS 4.0 gives you the tools to manage your Web sites, applications, and entire servers, with an array of settings that you can customize to meet your needs.
— Ken Spencer

Optimizing NT's WOW Subsystem
Whether you use 16-bit applications occasionally or daily, you can optimize NT's Win 16 on Win32 subsystems to get the most from your legacy software.
— Sean Daily

Troubleshooting NT Performance Monitoring
Find out which performance monitoring tools will give you the system information you need.
— John Savill

Understanding and Using LoadSim 5.0: Part 3
You can follow LoadSim's default user profiles for your test or take advantage of the programs flexibility to customize test properties.
— Greg Todd

[Reader to Reader]

Reader to Reader - April 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]

The New Compaq
Conpaq's buying spree means increased competition foryour business. With Compaq as the largest supplier of NT systems and support, IBM and HP will compete heavily for your business.
— Mark Smith

[Internals]

Windows NT Architecture, Part 2
Complete your tour of NT's architecture with an indepth look at NT's Executive subsystems, Kernel, and HAL.
— Mark Russinovich

[Product Reviews]

Argent Global Alert
Argent Software's Argent Global Alert is a complete system that monitors performance, event logs, and service.
— Michael P. Deignan

DOCS Open
DOCS Open, from PC DOCS, is a collection of programs and utilities that gives you an infrastructure to store, locate, retrieve, and manage documents across your network and the Internet.
— Michael P. Deignan

Hamilton C Shell
Hamilton C Shell, from Hamilton Laboratories, is a collection of UNIX programs and utilities that helps re-create your original UNIX working environment.
— Michael P. Deignan

Hyena
Hyena, from Adkins Resource, is a systems administration utility that lets you manage virtually every aspect of your NT environment.
— Michael P. Deignan

Northbridge NX801
Northbridge NX801, from Axil Compute, is an easy-to-use, enterprise-level server that uses up to eight 200MHz Pentium Pro processors and 8GB of SDRAM.
— Carlos Bernal

OpenNT
OpentNT, from Softway Systems, creates an enhanced POSIX/UNIX subsystem within your NT system.
— Michael P. Deignan

PerfectDisk NT
PerfectDisk NT, from Raxco Software, is NTFS and FAT file system defragmentation software for NT Server and NT Workstation systems.
— Michael P. Deignan

Printer Accounting Server 1.1
Printer Accounting Server 1.1, from Software Metrics, is a network printer usage tracking system for NT that lets you access reports on user or group usage and control printing on a per-user cost basis.
— William Wong

Sidewinder 50
Sidewinder 50 from Seagate Technology is a highspeed, high-capacity SCSI Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) backup unit that achieves impressive rates of data transfer.
— Michael P. Deignan

SureSync
SureSync, from Software Pursuits, can mirror or copy files between two or more locations to provide a robust file-transfer solution at a low cost.
— Jonathan Cragle

[Lab Notes]

Plan B
One Lab Guy tests two high-speed alternatives to ISDN connections and quickly learns that X2 and K56 technologies don't always reach 56Kbps.
— John Enck

[Inside Out]

Untangling Email
SMTP underlies all email messages. Here are the basics of how SMTP works.
— Mark Minasi

[Getting Started with NT]

Windows NT Protocols
Learn about the network protocols NT supports and decide which protocol will work best on your network.
— Michael D. Reilly

[Scripting Solutions]

NT Gains Scripting Muscle
From simple logon scripts and ad hoc tools to data-driven automation, WSH offers NT systems administrators a helping hand.
— Bob Wells

[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Learn some tricks for using the identity property; copying a subset of data; removing replication settings; optimizing DBCC operations; and fine tuning DBCC PERFLOG, logins, and passwords.
— Brian Moran , et al.

[This Old Resource Kit]

A Better AT
Command Scheduler, SLEEP, and SOON improve the NT Schedule service.
— Mark Minasi

[Tricks & Traps]

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Here are tips for protecting NT's Registry from accidental corruption, troubleshooting NT boot problems, and performing an unattended SP3 installation.
— Bob Chronister

[News Analysis]

NT News Analysis
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.
— Craig Barth

[Lab Feature]

533MHz Monsters Come On Strong
Discover what Alpha-powered NT workstations can do for you.
— Brian Gallagher

DB2 Does Data
Compare DB2 with other database management systems to see whether DB2 is right for your NT network.
— Karen Watterson

Putting the Wraps on Backup Software
The Lab completes its coverage of NT backup solutions with guidelines for choosing the right backup software and a review of IBM's ADSM.
— Jonathan Cragle , et al.