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[Focus]

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Attaining Availability—Avoiding Failure
Suddenly losing your mission-critical server can devastate your business, but few companies plan methods to avoid disaster. Windows NT Server offers many availability options to help keep your company up and running.
 — Sean Daily , et al.


Closing In on Clusters
The time is ripe for clustering to move into high-volume server markets such as the one Windows NT serves. This level-setting, comprehensive analysis clarifies the issues and reveals why companies with more than 50 employees will have NT clusters within
 — Mark Smith


Digital Clusters for Windows NT
Achieving 99.9% server up-time with NT is now a real possibility with Digital clusters.
 — Joel Sloss

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[Feature]

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A Quick View of Beta 2
Discover the neat, new capabilities of NT 4.0 beta 2.
 — John Enck


Configuring and Administering DNS
Explore how Domain Name System helps you locate remote computers by name so you can conveniently find the hosts you need. Part 1 of this two-part series explains the basic DNS components and setup under NT 4.0.
 — Spyros Sakellariadis


Domain Troubleshooting and Planning
Find out what's going on when you run into trouble setting up and maintaining NT domains.
 — Glenn Grant , et al.


Telephony? Just Call on NT
NT opens the airwaves to potential cellular customers with Telemac's Debit Technology.
 — Warren Pickett

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[Reader to Reader]

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Reader to Reader - August 1996
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
 — Readers

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[Editorial]

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Bridging the Gap
Microsoft won't rest until all its building blocks are standards.
 — Mark Smith

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[Product Reviews]

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NetXRay by Cinco Networks
NetXRay by Cinco Networks turns your NT system into a network monitor.
 — John Enck


Oberon Prospero
Oberon Software's Prospero is a graphical development tool for constructing Windows-based applications.
 — John Enck


Octopus by Octopus Technologies
Octopus by Octopus Technologies is realtime data mirroring overnetwork connections.
 — John Enck

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[Inside Out]

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DHCP and Assigning IP Addresses
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol eliminates the aches and pains of installing an IP address on every computer in your company.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Answers to questions about installing Windows 3.51, what is HSM, NT and Compuserve, the syntax of BOOT.INI, installing NT, and more.
 — Bob Chronister

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[Book Reviews]

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Windows Multi-DBMS Programming
Evaluating the tools for multiple databases
 — Michael D. Reilly

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[NT Europe]

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Internationalisation Issues
Uncover some important lessons for US companies--and the mistakes to avoid--when entering the European NT market.
 — Jon Honeyball

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[News]

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PowerPC Gets Serious About Windows NT
Excluding the PowerPC when you're thinking about NT could be a mistake. The PowerPC team has a strategy for getting its platform to the top.
 — Mark Smith

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[Interoperability]

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Your Own Personal Internet
Build your own intranet to bring a variety of server-based information to your desktop.
 — John Enck

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[Small Enterprises]

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NT Security Setup with Windows for Workgroups
Combining NT and WFW isn't easy as you think. You have to plan first.
 — Alex Pournelle

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[New to NT]

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PDCs, BDCs, and Availability
Keep your job-and your sanity. Create a backup system.
 — Mary Madden , et al.

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[Lab Feature]

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Compaq Goes to Businessville
Taking on the desktop business computing environment, Compaq has revamped its entire line of desktop PCs, consolidated various models under the family name Deskpro.
 — Joel Sloss


The Compaq Report
The Lab staff revisits the ProLiant 4500.
 — Joel Sloss