[Focus]
Build a Better Network with QoS
Quality of Service lets you prioritize data flow, allocate bandwidth, and enforce security in your network. Here's a primer on QoS implementation.
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Tao Zhou
Managing Your Network with NT 5.0
NT 5.0 provides new and enhanced network services and gives you the tools to manage them in the Microsoft Management Console. Here's a look at NT 5.0's increased network services funtionality.
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Darren Mar-Elia
[Feature]
Exchange Directory Replication
Understand how directory replication works so that you can prevent replication messages and RPCs from swamping your network.
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Tony Redmond
How to Secure Your NT-UNIX Network
Here are 8 components to consider when you are securing your mixed network.
—
G. Robert Williams
, et al.
NT 5.0's Directory Service Migration Tool
Directory Service Migration Tool makes NDS-to-AD migrations easy.
—
Douglas Toombs
Publish Web Content with Site Server 3.0
Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 improves substantially on previous versions. See how the newest release can make publishing intranet content a snap.
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T.J. Harty
Secure Your SMS in 6 Steps
Use SQL Server's Enterprise Manager and SMS Security Manager to complete the 6-step process of securing your SMS.
—
Bart Groenewoud
Service Packs and Hotfixes
SP4 promises to be worth the wait, but you'll want to install SP3's hotfixes in the meantime.
—
Mark Joseph Edwards
, et al.
Thin Client/Server Computing Works
IS professionals who designed and run real-world thin-client/server implementantions tell you how their deployments work and why they're sucessful.
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Mark Smith
Y2K and Microsoft
Many small businesses don't understand the magnitude of the Y2K problem. Learn how to protect your NT enterprise.
—
Paula Sharick
[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.
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Kathy Ivens
[Reader to Reader]
Reader to Reader - October 1998
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
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Readers
[Editorial]
Everybody's Doin' It
"Everybody's doin' it."
—
Mark Smith
[En Garde]
Relearning Lessons
Modern applications use disk space lavishly, and few include provisions for resolving space shortages.
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Mark Minasi
[Internals]
Inside the Boot Process, Part 1
Take an in-depth look at the process by which NT wakes up and gets going.
—
Mark Russinovich
[Product Reviews]
DiskMapper
Micro Logic's DiskMapper creates a color-coded map to track disk space usage.
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Michael P. Deignan
HP OpenView Network Node Manager 5.02 for Windows NT
HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) 5.02 for Windows NT brings the full power of HP's flagship network-management tool for UNIX to NT, along with a new user interface.
—
John Green
IBM IntelliStation M Pro
The IBM IntelliStation M Pro is IBM's latest and greatest 3-D Windows NT workstation.
—
Brian Gallagher
IRAS-8A
The IRAS-8A is the ideal Basic Rate Interface (BRI) connection.
—
John Enck
NeoStation 220
The NeoStation 220 is an instant-on/downloadable Windows-based terminal hybrid and is a fine fit for the thin-client and thin-server environment.
—
John Enck
Norton Antivirus 4.0 for Windows NT Servers
Norton AntiVirus (NAV) 4.0 for NT Servers includes a flexible, centralized alert system that keeps administrators up-to-date through alerts from other workstations and servers running NAV products.
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Jonathan Cragle
ThinSTAR 200 Windows-based Terminal
Network Computing Devices's (NCD) ThinSTAR 200 is a promising addition to the Windows-based terminal family. The device is small, but it provides good video support.
—
Christa Anderson
[Lab Notes]
Moving Day
Setting up the
Windows NT Magazine Lab in a new location is a learning experience.
—
John Enck
[Inside Out]
Unattended SCSI Adapter Driver Installations
Perform unattended installations of SCSI drivers that NT doesn't recognize.
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Mark Minasi
[Getting Started with NT]
Windows NT Event Viewer
Use the NT Event Viewer to diagnose and prevent problems.
—
Michael D. Reilly
[Scripting Solutions]
Perl COM Objects
Learn how to create COM automation servers in Perl.
—
Bob Wells
[SQL Server Savvy]
Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Learn more slick features coming in SQL Server 7.0, and find out about transforming applications into NT services, a security hole in xp_cmdshell, installing BOL manually, SQL Server and Y2K, and table names and sizes.
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Brian Moran
, et al.
[This Old Resource Kit]
AUTOEXNT
Run programs that aren't services automatically when NT starts.
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Mark Minasi
[Tricks & Traps]
Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Find anaswers to cloning a PDC to create a BDC in an existing domain, correcting a corrupt print driver in NT, and performing an unattended installation on machines with AGP.
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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
[News]
NT Intelligence
Walking the walk and talking the talk. Operating systems must learn peaceful coexistence.
—
David Chernicoff
[Lab Feature]
IBM Enterprise Suite for Windows NT
If you're tired of BackOffice, IBM Enterprise Suite for Windows NT offers an attractive alternative.
—
Michael P. Deignan
Load Balancing Your NICs
Distribute your incoming and outgoing data through a super NIC.
—
Jonathan Cragle
MCSE Self-Study Options
In the third part of an examination of CBT self-study programs, the Lab reviews four products.
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Michael P. Deignan
Video for the Intranet
The Lab continues reviews of the videoconferencing software with Cisco Systems' IP/TV software and cameras from COnnectix and Toshiba.
—
Brian Gallagher
