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Be Prepared for IP Multicasting Applications
Video conferencing, audio conferencing, and online training are here. Is your system ready for these and other applications that deliver information from one source to many destinations?
 — Tao Zhou


How Safe Are Your SQL Server Passwords
Encryption of SQL Server passwords doesn't ensure their security. Find out where the holes are so you'll be less likely to step in them.
 — Brian Moran


IIS 3.0 Active Server Pages
See how IIS 3.0's most significant new feature, Active Server Pages, helps you build high-powered, dynamic Web server applications from a development environment that combines HTML, scripts, and ActiveX components on the server.
 — Keith Pleas


In Defense of C2
C2 is a good standard for security, but you need to know what you're getting.
 — Bart Stidham


Integrating Windows Messaging with SQL Server
With SQLMail, you can query SQL Server from Windows Messaging applications such as Exchange and receive messages from the SQL Server for tasks such as alerts and triggers.
 — David Lafferty


Novell's Workstation Manager-A First Step Toward Windows NT and NDS Coexistence
Workstation Manager, a new module in Novell's IntranetWare Client for Windows NT, gives you one logon to NetWare and NT networks and lets you access NT objects via an NDS tree.
 — Craig Zacker


NT Behind Closed Doors
The US Department of Defense looks to NT to provide the applications and support the file formats DoD needs.
 — Christa Anderson


Planning a Large-Scale Exchange Implementation
To deploy Exchange in a large enterprise, you need to consider the Windows NT infrastructure, network connections and bandwidth, the shape of the Exchange organization, and server connections.
 — Tony Redmond


The Case Against C2
C2 is outdated, military-based specification that does not address the security needs of today's corporate computing environment.
 — Ben Rothke


The Handy Security Toolkit
Network security means more than just a firewall. Add these basic tools to monitor and assess security on your network.
 — Mark Joseph Edwards


Unified Messaging
Retrieve your email messages from your voice mailbox. Find out the future--and the present--of one-inbox messaging.
 — Chris Bajorek


Visual Studio 97
Is Microsoft's first stab at integraing its developer-oriented products a bona fide tools suite or a collection of products that are on speaking terms?
 — Keith Pleas

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Reader to Reader - May 1997
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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Command the Enterprise
Maybe NT 5.0 will come with a discount coupon.
 — Mark Smith

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[Internals]

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Inside Windows NT Disk Defragmenting
Disk defragmentation products are hot sellers. Find about about NT's disk defragmentation support and how defragmentation tools work.
 — Mark Russinovich

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[Product Reviews]

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AlertPage Enterprise
Proactive systems management requires knowing what is happening throughout your enterprise, and AlertPage from Geneva Software helps keep you informed.
 — Jeffrey Sloman


BindView EMS/NOSadmin
BindView EMS/NOSadmin is a network and resource reporting tool that now works with Windows NT.
 — Tim Daniels


Enterprise Administrator 4.0
Enterprise Administrator 4.0 from Mission Critical Software lets you manage user accounts, create and assign permissions and manage security on a large scale.
 — Joel Sloss


FileRules 1.02
FileRules 1.02 from Ilexis is a tool for writing and executing rules for managing files automatically.
 — Jonathan Chau


InterAccess Telnetd Server
Pragma Systems' InterAccess Telnetd Server supports a variety of remote command-line applications.
 — John Enck


Quota Server 4.0B and Quota Manager 2.6.1
Argent's Quota Server 4.0B and Quota Manager 2.6.1 help administer disk space quotas.
 — Jeffrey Sloman


ViewPoint
Datametrics Systems' ViewPoint keeps watch over the activities of multiple servers and multiple systems.
 — Dean Porter

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[Inside Out]

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More on Troubleshooting NT Boot Failures
With an understanding of the boot process, you can learn to avoid the blue screen of death.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Learn how to eliminate Network Neighborhood icon from your desktop, configure the Tcpip Registry key, find a Microsoft hotfix for the Service Pack 2 RPC bug, and perform unattended installations that use the sysdiff command.
 — Bob Chronister

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[NT Europe]

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NT Europe
London hosted a four-day Windows show.
 — Jon Honeyball

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[News]

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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.

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[Interoperability]

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Second-Class Services for First-Class Interoperability
Deploying low-end services, such as Telnet, RSH, Finger, TFTP, and UUCP, with high-end services, such as NFS and SMTP mail, you can create a UNIX-friendly NT environment.
 — John Enck

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[VB Solutions]

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Build a Network Message Utility
Coding with Win32 network API functions is easy. Three of them let you build NetMessage, a utility for sending network messages without leaving the Windows NT GUI.
 — Michael Otey

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[WebDev]

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Ad Juggler and Web Administration for Microsoft Windows NT Server
Track stats for your Web page advertisers, and use the Web to administer your NT Server.
 — T.J. Harty

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[New to NT]

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Remote Access Service
Learn how RAS lets you access your network when you're away from the office.
 — Michael D. Reilly

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[Lab Feature]

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Express Meter 3.5 and CentaMeter 2.7
Products that simplify software license management.
 — Carlos Bernal


SMS 1.2
Remote help desk and software distribution at your fingertips with Microsoft's SMS 1.2.
 — Tim Daniels


Systems Management Tools
Systems management encompasses a huge variety of tasks. Third-party packages solve individual systems-management problems or cover a range, but NT comes with some useful tools to get you started.
 — James Michael Stewart , et al.


Unicenter TNG
Unicenter TNG from Computer Associates is a suite of interrelated modules that addresses a different aspect of end-to-end enterprise and systems management.
 — Joel Sloss