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Build a High-Availability Web Site with MSCS and IIS 4.0
Explore MSCS's basic funtionality and walk through how to use MSCS with IIS to set up a high-availability Web site that gives you peace of mind.
 — Jim Plas


Clustering Exchange Server
Custering improves an Exchange Server system's availibility, but isn't a fail-safe solution.
 — Tony Redmond


Rely on the Windows NT Load Balancing Service
WLBS uses clustering and load balancing to make server application reliable and scalable.
 — Ken Spencer

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Big Clusters Solve Big Problems
Using clustering technology, NCSA combines 192 processors to make an NT-based supercomputer.
 — Christa Anderson


Bulk User Create

 — Brian Shea


Do You Need to Rebuild?
Exchange Server 5.5 uses database space more efficiently than previous versions, but you still might need to rebuild your IS or Directory database.
 — Tony Redmond


Enhance Security Through Registry Permissions
You can restrict users' permissions to Registry keys as much as you restict users' permissions to files and directories. Here's how!
 — Mark Joseph Edwards


Managing NT Environment Variables
NT environment variables hold useful information that you can use to make your scripts more powerful.
 — Charles Kerekes


Netscape Proxy Server 3.5
Learn about proxy arrays, reverse proxy, and multiple proxy servers, and find out how Netscape Proxy Server can benefit your network.
 — William Wong


Remote Access Management with RADIUS
RADIUS technology lets you use your existing user directory to authenticate your remote users for both ISP and corporate access. Here's how RADIUS works.
 — Tao Zhou


Small Business Server Overhaul
Microsoft adds functionality to BackOffice Small Business Server 4.5 to ease installation, deployment, remote administration, and management.
 — Joshua Feinberg


The Dexterous HTML-based ISM
HTML-based ISM provides remote IIS management over an HTTP connection.
 — Ken Spencer


Windows Installer Takes Control
Learn how to use the new Windows installer service to manage Windows software installations more efficiently.
 — Darren Mar-Elia

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[Reader Challenge]

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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.
 — Kathy Ivens

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[Reader to Reader]

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Reader to Reader - June 1999
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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Chasing 9s
Ensure device driver reliability. Discussion of faulty third-party device drivers as the major cause of reliability problems.
 — Mark Smith

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[ForefroNT]

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Windows Interface Changes
Change for the Sake of Change--Discussion of the Microsoft change from double-click behavior to single click option.
 — David Chernicoff

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[En Garde]

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The Wolves Are Circling Again
Discussion of Microsoft's flexibility on announced shipping dates for OSs and service packs.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Internals]

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Inside Encrypting File System, Part 1
Learn about Win2K's built-in encryption facility.
 — Mark Russinovich

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[Product Reviews]

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Acctrol for RAS
SpartaCom's Acctrol for RAS is an accounting and control system built on client/server technology for NT's RAS.
 — Michael P. Deignan


Express Assist 2.2
Seem Software developed Express Assist 2.2 to fill some perceived gaps in Microsoft Outlook Express' functionality.
 — Joshua Feinberg


Gateway ALR 9200 Server
The Gateway ALR 9200 Server is the newest addition to the ALR Server series that offers the combined technologies of Gateway 2000 and Advanced Logic Research (ALR) \, which is now a Gateway business unit.
 — John Green


InterAccess Terminal Server
InterAccess Terminal Server is an NT-based service that monitors your COM ports and lets users log on to your NT server and obtain shell access, similar to a direct serial connection to a UNIX host.
 — Michael P. Deignan


Profile Maker 2.7
Automated Profile Management's Profile Maker 2.7 is an administration tool you can use to automate profile creation and management in user-executed applications.
 — Michael P. Deignan


Synchronicity for NT
If your company's heterogeneous environment runs various OSs and application, you spend a lot of time creating and assigning passwords to new user accounts or modifying existing accounts. NetVision's Synchronicity for NT simplifies this task.
 — Michael P. Deignan


Visio Enterprise 5.0
Visio Enterprise 5.0 lets you quickly create document models of your networks, databases, and software projects.
 — Jonathan Cragle


WinShield
Citadel Technology's WinShield is a desktop management and security package for NT Workstation and Win9x systems that lets an administgrator define and control the desktop at a fairly granular level.
 — Mark Joseph Edwards

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[Lab Notes]

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NT Clustering
Concerning NT Clustering and MSCS, the Lab Guys are worried that Microsoft has dropped the ball.
 — Jonathan Cragle

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[Inside Out]

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More LMHOSTS Tips
The author provides additional information to help you decide when and how to specify machines' domain controllers.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Getting Started with NT]

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Domain Name Resolution with DNS
DNS provides name resolution for IPaddresses outside your network and works with WINSto keeo up with IP address changes.
 — Michael D. Reilly

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[Scripting Solutions]

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Scripting 101
Learn how to create and structure WSH scripts.
 — Bob Wells

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[SQL Server Savvy]

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Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Learn about visible system objects, SQL Server 7.0's improved date aritmetic, distributed heterogeneous gueries, difficult DTS connection names, and the autoshrink function.
 — Brian Moran , et al.

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[Watch Your RAS]

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DHCP Foibles
Exploit these tips to prevent and troubleshoot common RAS-breaking DHCP problems.
 — Sean Daily

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[This Old Resource Kit]

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Rmtshare
Manage share permissions from the command line.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Find out how to use previous backups to perform a restore; create Win98 user profiles in NT networks; prevent users from mapping network drives; triple-boot NT, DOS, and Win9x; and dual-boot NT and Win98 to use the same swap space.
 — Bob Chronister

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[TOP 10]

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Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
The author shares his favorite shortcuts to help you save time while you work.
 — Michael Otey

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[Lab Feature]

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DB2 Universal Database 5.2
DB2 5.2 offers Java support, parallel processing, and state-of-the-art graphical tools.
 — Timothy Dyck


MAGNITUDE XL-2800
XIOtech's MAGNITUDE family of disk arrays is a fault-tolerant, scalable, and flexible way to add storage space.
 — Randall S. Nieland