SQL Server Magazine June 1999

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High Availability
Maintaining highly available services and applications is crucial to any network. This month, Windows NT Magazine provides tips on how to ensure high availability. You'll discover how the Windows NT Load Balancing Service can provide reliability and scalability for server applications. We'll show you how to set up a high-availability Web site using Microsoft Cluster Server and Internet Information Server 4.0. You'll also learn that although clustering inproves a Microsoft Exchange Server system's availability, clustering isn't a fail-safe solution.
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[Focus]

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.

Clustering Exchange Server

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

Rely on the Windows NT Load Balancing Service

WLBS uses clustering and load balancing to make server application reliable and scalable.




[Feature]

Big Clusters Solve Big Problems

Using clustering technology, NCSA combines 192 processors to make an NT-based supercomputer.

Bulk User Create


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.

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!

Managing NT Environment Variables

NT environment variables hold useful information that you can use to make your scripts more powerful.

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.

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.

Small Business Server Overhaul

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

The Dexterous HTML-based ISM

HTML-based ISM provides remote IIS management over an HTTP connection.

Windows Installer Takes Control

Learn how to use the new Windows installer service to manage Windows software installations more efficiently.




[Reader Challenge]

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.




[Reader to Reader]

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).




[Editorial]

Chasing 9s

Ensure device driver reliability. Discussion of faulty third-party device drivers as the major cause of reliability problems.




[ForefroNT]

Windows Interface Changes

Change for the Sake of Change--Discussion of the Microsoft change from double-click behavior to single click option.




[En Garde]

The Wolves Are Circling Again

Discussion of Microsoft's flexibility on announced shipping dates for OSs and service packs.




[Internals]

Inside Encrypting File System, Part 1

Learn about Win2K's built-in encryption facility.




[Product Reviews]

Acctrol for RAS

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

Express Assist 2.2

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Visio Enterprise 5.0

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

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.




[Lab Notes]

NT Clustering

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




[Inside Out]

More LMHOSTS Tips

The author provides additional information to help you decide when and how to specify machines' domain controllers.




[Getting Started with NT]

Domain Name Resolution with DNS

DNS provides name resolution for IPaddresses outside your network and works with WINSto keeo up with IP address changes.




[Scripting Solutions]

Scripting 101

Learn how to create and structure WSH scripts.




[SQL Server Savvy]

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.




[Watch Your RAS]

DHCP Foibles

Exploit these tips to prevent and troubleshoot common RAS-breaking DHCP problems.




[This Old Resource Kit]

Rmtshare

Manage share permissions from the command line.




[Tricks & Traps]

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.




[TOP 10]

Essential Keyboard Shortcuts

The author shares his favorite shortcuts to help you save time while you work.




[Lab Feature]

DB2 Universal Database 5.2

DB2 5.2 offers Java support, parallel processing, and state-of-the-art graphical tools.

MAGNITUDE XL-2800

XIOtech's MAGNITUDE family of disk arrays is a fault-tolerant, scalable, and flexible way to add storage space.



 

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