SQL Server Magazine April 2000

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Orchestrate Performance
This month in Windows 2000 Magazine, we give you tips about how to orchestrate your network’s performance. You’ll read about how to measure and manage your Windows NT Workstation 4.0 application performance and discover useful tools that can help you with your performance problems. You’ll learn how you can employ a Web server load balancer to improve your Web site’s performance and availability. You’ll also read about Exchange 2000 Server’s improvements and how they effect performance.
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[Focus]

Exchange 2000 Performance Planning

Exchange 2000's architectural improvements have a profound effect on performance. As you begin planning your Exchange 2000 implementation, take these hardware configuration tips to heart.

Measuring and Managing Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Application Performance

Learn how to measure and manage your NT Workstation 4.0 performance, and discover useful tools that can help you with performance problems.

Web Server Load Balancers

Investigate how you can employ a Web server load balancer to improve your Web site's performance and availability.




[Feature]

15 Tips for Troubleshooting VPN Connections

Troubleshooting a VPN is complex because the data travels through many links. Check out these troubleshooting tips tailored to specific VPN connection problems.

Interpreting the NT Security Log

To use the Security Log, you need to understand three of the most important categories of security events: logon and logoff, object access, and process tracking.

NTFS5 vs. FAT32

Meet Win2K’s new file systems, learn about their features, and find out how and when to use NTFS5 and FAT32.

What's New in Windows 2000 Directory Replication?

A new and improved multiple-master scheme lets any domain controller receive directory changes and replicate them to other domain controllers.




[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 - April 2000

Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).




[Editorial]

Welcome to Windows 2000

Mark Smith shares some reader comments about their discoveries in using Windows 2000 on the desktop.




[Outlook VBA on Demand]

Moving Incoming Items to Folders

Find out how to check for important incoming messages and move those messages from the Inbox to another folder.




[ForefroNT]

The Y2K Bug Bites

Not too many Y2K problems occurred, but the Y2K bug conjured up a rollover date that I hadn’t considered: January 8, 1601.




[En Garde]

Y2K: The Media Just Didn't Get It

Mark suggests a way to make up for the once-in-a-lifetime celebration you missed out on because you spent New Year's Eve at the office.




[Internals]

Inside Storage Management, Part 2

Storage architecture in Win2K has changed dramatically from NT 4.0, supporting the creation of advanced volumes and dynamic growth of existing volumes without reboots.




[Product Reviews]

Blazer

An easy way to add needed storage.

InoculateIT 4.5

Vaccinating your network.

Performance Gallery

Simplify networkwide performance monitoring and routine reporting.




[Lab Notes]

Wired for Management Standard

WfM specifications can help you save time and reduce costs.




[Inside Out]

Linux: The Bad News

The most difficult part of using Linux is installing it, especially if you want to put it on a laptop.




[Scripting Solutions]

Extensible Markup Language

Discover how the new XML-based Windows Script file provides an improved and powerful scripting framework.




[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server

Investigate how to install multiple instances of SQL Server, use the TOP statement with a local variable, use UDFs in SQL Server 2000, store extended properties, and more.




[Watch Your RAS]

WINS Weirdness Strikes Again

Beware this WINS-related bug that can foil your RAS clients’ name-resolution functionality.




[This Old Resource Kit]

Ending Errant Processes

When Task Manager can’t end a process, bring out the Tlist and Kill commands.




[Tricks & Traps]

Ask the Doctor

Learn about IE and Outlook password problems, RAS dialing, unresponsive NT installations, evaluation-version determination, IntelliPoint installation in Win2K, WINS client miscommunication, and the boot.ini timeout value.




[News Analysis]

SCO Does the Thin-Client/Server Dance

SCO creates an inroad to the thin-client/server marketplace with Tarantella.

The Sun Also Writhes

Java development has worked reasonably well in the past without a standards group governing it. What is Sun's commitment to Java standardization?




[TOP 10]

Resource Kit Batch File Commands

Check out the best of a rich selection of utilities that you can incorporate into your batch files.




[Buyer's Guide]

Uninterruptible Power Supplies

Find out what you need to look for when you choose your next UPS--it might just save your network.




[Lab Comparative]

Evaluating Windows Terminals

Some applications call for Windows terminals, but how do you evaluate them? This article explains and compares nine devices.




[Windows 2000 Pro]

Dual-Boot Blues

You might need to run two Windows OSs until more hardware and software supports Win2K. Here’s how to set them up.




[Exchange & Outlook Troubleshooter]

The Six Deadly Backup Sins

Learn how to avoid a disaster-recovery nightmare.




[Special Reports]

BackOffice ERP & Beyond

This supplement highlights business management applications that run on the Microsoft BackOffice platform. This .pdf file requires Adobe Acrobat. Visit Adobe to download the reader.



 

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