SQL Server Magazine November 1998

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Network Management in NT 5.0
Windows NT 5.0 offers many new and enhanced network services that support and improve the functionality of your computing infrastructure. In this issue of Windows NT Magazine, you get an in-depth view of what network management in NT 5.0 will look like. You'll learn about NT 5.0's new and improved networking features and how to implement Quality of Service in your NT 5.0 network to effectively prioritize data traffic flow, allocate bandwidth and resources, and enforce security.
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[Focus]
Quality of Service lets you prioritize data flow, allocate bandwidth, and enforce security in your network. Here's a primer on QoS implementation.
By Tao Zhou
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.
By Darren Mar-Elia
[Feature]
Understand how directory replication works so that you can prevent replication messages and RPCs from swamping your network.
By Tony Redmond
Here are 8 components to consider when you are securing your mixed network.
By G. Robert Williams , et al.
Directory Service Migration Tool makes NDS-to-AD migrations easy.
By Douglas Toombs
Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 improves substantially on previous versions. See how the newest release can make publishing intranet content a snap.
By T.J. Harty
Use SQL Server's Enterprise Manager and SMS Security Manager to complete the 6-step process of securing your SMS.
By Bart Groenewoud
SP4 promises to be worth the wait, but you'll want to install SP3's hotfixes in the meantime.
By Mark Joseph Edwards , et al.
IS professionals who designed and run real-world thin-client/server implementantions tell you how their deployments work and why they're sucessful.
By Mark Smith
Many small businesses don't understand the magnitude of the Y2K problem. Learn how to protect your NT enterprise.
By Paula Sharick
[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.
By Kathy Ivens
[Reader to Reader]
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
By Readers
[Editorial]
"Everybody's doin' it."
By Mark Smith
[En Garde]
Modern applications use disk space lavishly, and few include provisions for resolving space shortages.
By Mark Minasi
[Internals]
Take an in-depth look at the process by which NT wakes up and gets going.
By Mark Russinovich
[Product Reviews]
Micro Logic's DiskMapper creates a color-coded map to track disk space usage.
By Michael P. Deignan
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.
By John Green
The IBM IntelliStation M Pro is IBM's latest and greatest 3-D Windows NT workstation.
By Brian Gallagher
The IRAS-8A is the ideal Basic Rate Interface (BRI) connection.
By John Enck
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.
By John Enck
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.
By Jonathan Cragle
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.
By Christa Anderson
[Lab Notes]
Setting up the Windows NT Magazine Lab in a new location is a learning experience.
By John Enck
[Inside Out]
Perform unattended installations of SCSI drivers that NT doesn't recognize.
By Mark Minasi
[Getting Started with NT]
Use the NT Event Viewer to diagnose and prevent problems.
By Michael D. Reilly
[Scripting Solutions]
Learn how to create COM automation servers in Perl.
By Bob Wells
[SQL Server Savvy]
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.
By Brian Moran , et al.
[This Old Resource Kit]
Run programs that aren't services automatically when NT starts.
By Mark Minasi
[Tricks & Traps]
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.
By Bob Chronister
[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.
By Craig Barth
[News]
Walking the walk and talking the talk. Operating systems must learn peaceful coexistence.
By David Chernicoff
[Lab Feature]
If you're tired of BackOffice, IBM Enterprise Suite for Windows NT offers an attractive alternative.
By Michael P. Deignan
Distribute your incoming and outgoing data through a super NIC.
By Jonathan Cragle
In the third part of an examination of CBT self-study programs, the Lab reviews four products.
By Michael P. Deignan
The Lab continues reviews of the videoconferencing software with Cisco Systems' IP/TV software and cameras from COnnectix and Toshiba.
By Brian Gallagher
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