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[Focus]

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Just What Is TCO, Anyway?
You've been hearing a lot about TCO lately, but do you really know what it is? Here's an examination of TCO: where it comes from, how to calculate it, and how important it can be to your enterprise.
 — Mark Minasi


The Future of Systems Management
Microsoft is finally improving NT's systems management capabilities. Glimpse the future of management in SMS 2.0 and NT 5.0.
 — Greg Todd


Windows NT Systems Management Roadmap
Learn about the enterprise systems management packages you can use for Windows NT.
 — Darren Mar-Elia

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Building Fault-Tolerant SNA Functionality
Employ Microsoft's SNA Server as a gateway service that links your IP-based NT network to your mainframes and AS/400.
 — Tao Zhou


Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 1
SP1 is finally out. S/MIME, message journaling, and other new features make it worth the wait.
 — Tony Redmond


IPC Mechanisms
You might not be familiar with the interprocess communications (IPC) mechanisms, but they are vital to a distributed computing network. Learn what these IPC mechanisms are and why they are so important.
 — Zubair Alexander


Managing Permissions for NT 5.0's Active Directory
Active Directory's powerful search capabilities might lead to management nightmares if you don't know how to hide objects from users' searches. Modifying objects' permissions is easy once you understand the basics.
 — Alistair G. Lowe-Norris


NT Server Security Checklist
Find out what you need to do to stay ahead of the onslaught of physical, network, and password security attacks on NT.
 — Sean Daily


Troubleshooting Windows NT User Configuration
Get answers to common questions about managing NT user accounts.
 — John Savill


Using Microsoft Email Clients with Exchange Server
Learn how to configure the Exchange, Outlook, and Outlook Express clients to use SMTP and POP3 to connect with Exchange Server 5.5.
 — Spyros Sakellariadis


Using the SMTP Service with IIS 4.0
IIS 4.0's SMTP Service lets you easily set up and receive email from users surfing your Web site.
 — Ken Spencer


Windows NT System Policies
System policies in NT 5.0 will be more powerful than those in NT 4.0. Here's how to efficiently implement this tool in your NT infrastructure.
 — 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 - July 1998
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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Will You Trust Your Phones to NT?
Are you spending too much to upgrade your corporate phone mail system? Windows NT might be the solution for you.
 — Mark Smith

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[En Garde]

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Get the Government Off Microsoft's Back­Completely
How to end Bill Gates' conflict with federal regulators.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Internals]

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Inside Microsoft Terminal Server
Microsoft Terminal Server, formerly code-named Hydra, is due for release this month. Here's a sneak preview of Terminal Server features and functionality.
 — Mark Russinovich

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[Product Reviews]

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AIR ID
Eliminate the need for passwords.
 — Mark Joseph Edwards


AppManager Suite
Get a handle on BackOffice performance.
 — Michael P. Deignan


AutoPilot P/SA
Improve performance with this utility.
 — Michael P. Deignan


ER Disk 2.2
Create ERDs over the network.
 — Michael P. Deignan


NetRoad FireWALL 2.1
Test drive this security software on your Windows NT or NetWare server.
 — Mark Joseph Edwards


Phoenix Domain Reconfiguration Tool for Windows NT
Reconfigure your domains without effort or worry.
 — Michael P. Deignan


Print Manager Plus 2.5
Establish control over your print jobs.
 — Michael P. Deignan


SpaceGuard 4.1.0.11
Monitor disk space with this solution.
 — Michael P. Deignan


Trusted Enterprise Manager
Extend responsibility for your system to trusted users.
 — Michael P. Deignan

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[Lab Notes]

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Thin Client or Fat Head?
The Lab Guys ponder the complexity of thin client downloading.
 — John Enck

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[Inside Out]

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Get Wired
Before you connect your business to the Internet, consider using a proxy server.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Getting Started with NT]

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Windows NT Users and Groups
Learn how to add new users, assign SIDs and usernames, and configure password and other options.
 — Michael D. Reilly

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[Scripting Solutions]

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Work Smarter, Not Harder
If your job never gets any easier, you need to be more efficient. Using scripts to automate tedious tasks can help do just that.
 — Bob Wells

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[SQL Server Savvy]

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Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Read tips about SQL Server's memory requirements, a bug in dumping databases, the ESCAPE option, clustered vs. non-clustered indexes, a fix for DBCC dbreindex space problems, stored procedure encryption, DBCC vs. Unicode, and ODBC server-side cursors.
 — Brian Moran , et al.

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[This Old Resource Kit]

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DELPROF
Delete roaming user profiles with ease.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Find out about using ERD Commander, creating a batch file to back up open files, defragmenting NT's pagefile.sys file, and controlling viruses with ease and efficiency.
 — Bob Chronister

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[News Analysis]

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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

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[Lab Feature]

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Clustering Software for Your Network
Need a clustering solution that doesn't require as much investment as MSCS? The Windows NT Magazine Lab reviews six MSCS competitors that might run on the systems you already have.
 — Jonathan Cragle


Dual 333MHz Pentium Processors
One Lab guy discovers the world of 3-D on NT in this review of dual 333MHz Pentium II workstations. They're fast, and they process 3-D rendering and design calculations like nobody's business.
 — Brian Gallagher


Tech Stories from the Trenches
Find out why defragmenting disks make sense and how one defragmentation tool improves performance.
 — Paula Sharick