SQL Server Magazine February 2000
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Migrate or Wait
Microsoft will soon be releasing Windows 2000 (Win2K). But is it wise to make the move right away? In the February issue of Windows 2000 Magazine, we help you decide whether Win2K migration is right for your environment. We include a list of 10 reasons to migrate and 10 reasons to wait. We show you how to easily upgrade your domain controllers. We identify Win2K’s DNS requirements and provide you with three UNIX DNS and Win2K integration options. Finally, we give you insight into Win2K Terminal Services vs. Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition (WTS) licensing.
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[Focus]
Before you jump on the Win2K migration bandwagon, find out whether migration makes sense in your environment.
By Sean Deuby
Gain a better understanding of Win2K's DNS requirements and explore three UNIX DNS and Win2K integration options.
By Tao Zhou
Follow Microsoft's step-by-step guide to successfully migrate domain controllers to Win2K.
By Douglas Toombs
Explore how Terminal Services licencing works in Microsoft's first integrated terminal server product, learn how to set up licenses, and discover the logic behind the changes.
By Christa Anderson
[Feature]
The ADUC MMC snap-in updates NT's User Manager tool. Manage OUs, user accounts, computer accounts, groups, and volumes, and create more object classes to meet your business needs.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
Discover how SFU simplifies resource access, facilitates password synchronization, and eases administration in mixed NT and UNIX environments.
By Jim Mohr
Understand Windows NT's weaknesses so that you can protect and monitor your administrator accounts.
By Randy Franklin Smith
This server-based computing solution opens many doors, particularly on your network. Here's how to configure your firewall to guard against intrusion.
By David Carroll
Secure channels are important to trust relationships. Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot the secure channels in your domains.
By L. J. Locher
Win2K's software installation features provide portable, self-installing, self-upgrading applications.
By Darren Mar-Elia
Win2K's disk-management tool is easier to use than NT 4.0's, and it has some handy new features.
By Christa Anderson
Microsoft's implemetation of NAT provides the simplicity, flexibility, and low cost of the traditional Network Address Translator Internet standard. Microsoft has added more features to its flavor of NAT to make it easier to use.
By Zubair Alexander
[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 , et al.
[Editorial]
Even with a magazine name change, Mark Smith reaffirms Windows 2000 Magazine's commitment to covering Windows NT.
By Mark Smith
[Outlook VBA on Demand]
Learn how to duplicate Rules Wizard conditions and how to add a message flag to an incoming item.
By Sue Mosher
[En Garde]
Think you want a revolution? Mark explains why revolution isn't the most appropriate path for big PC changes.
By Mark Minasi
[Internals]
WMI implements Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technology to offer an extensible data-collection and management facility that lets you manage local and remote systems composed of arbitrary components.
By Mark Russinovich
[Product Reviews]
Protect your network.
By Marty Scher
Ease the pain of large-network administration.
By Tom Henderson
Enticing the move to server-based computing.
By Mark Weitz
Managing NT service accounts just got a lot easier.
By John Green
Network management for small and midsized businesses.
By Jonathan Cragle
[Lab Notes]
The Lab Guys see a rough time ahead for power users and systems administrators learning to use Win2K's user interface.
By Lab Guys
[Inside Out]
Using Microsoft FrontPage to handle forms is a hassle. Mark suggests ASP as an alternative.
By Mark Minasi
[SQL Server Savvy]
Karen and Brian explore topics including DTS gotchas, the DTS ScriptPkg utility, FoxPro and SQlL server UDF support, and OLAP Services FoodMart data.
By Brian Moran , et al.
[Watch Your RAS]
Employ several tricks to increase the amount of information that RAS provides and inprove its overall manageability.
By Sean Daily
[This Old Resource Kit]
This resource kit tool lets you run any program as a service. Mark explains how the tool works.
By Mark Minasi
[Tricks & Traps]
Learn about disk-usage analysis. remote Exchange Server access, DSL and Proxy Server, and file-cache size manipulation.
By Bob Chronister
[News Analysis]
Cisco is buying into optical networking partially as a hedge against the increased competition with its line-of-business, but also because Cisco recognizes that high-speed data transfer over fiber will become a major business.
By Barrie Sosinsky
TCO is only one part of a two-part business decision to migrate to Windows 2000. A business also needs to look at the benefits.
By Barrie Sosinsky
When you buy the Oracle8i Appliance, you get Sun Solaris on an Intel server, an Oracle8i database, a Web server, and the tools to conduct browser-based OS management.
By Barrie Sosinsky
[TOP 10]
A comparison of the best chips in today's CPU marketplace.
By Michael Otey
[Buyer's Guide]
If you think server-based storage is complicated, expensive, and time consuming, think again. Network Attached Storage (NAS) is here and available for most budgets.
By Jonathan Cragle
[Exchange & Outlook UPDATE: Exchange Server Perspectives]
Learn about WINS-to DNS conversion, the X.400 connector, a workaround to avoid Unicode gibberish, and factors in performance improvement.
By Tom Henderson
[Lab Comparative]
Looking for an enterprise-level fax server solution? We give you the goods on 11 software and 4 turnkey products to help you identify your options.
By Michael P. Deignan
[Windows 2000 Pro]
microsoft significantly changed the Win2K Telnet inplementation between RC1 and RC2. Discover whether RC2's Telnet application is really better than the earlier application.
By John D. Ruley
[Exchange & Outlook Troubleshooter]
OWA 2000 responds to the increasing popularity of Web browsers and becomes an essential Exchange Server connectivity option.
By Tony Redmond
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