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High Availability In the November issue of Windows 2000 Magazine, we focus on high availability. We cover high-availability clustering solutions-—Microsoft Cluster Services, Network Load Balancing, Component Load Balancing, and Application Center. We also tell you the hardware and software components that can provide a strong base for a reliable high-availability system.		• Subscribe • Renew • Master CD • Change Mailing Address • Customer Service • Back Issues • Article Reprints • Group Discounts
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Components of a High-Availability System

Find out what hardware and software decisions you can make to provide a strong base for reliable servers.
By David Chernicoff 

Microsoft Clustering Solutions

Microsoft Cluster Services, Network Load Balancing, Component Load Balancing, and Application Center add scalability, availability, and reliability to Windows.
By Greg Todd 

ADMT—The Road to Migration

ADMT lets you easily restructure your domain and securely migrate your NT 4.0 environment to Win2K. Learn the basic ADMT migration steps, and discover the ADMT features that let you monitor your migration progress.
By Martin McClean 

Controlling Group Policy, Part 1

Get a grip on Group Policy Objects and Group Policy application maneuvers in Win2K.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Taming DLL Hell

New features in Win2K can help you control DLL hell.
By Darren Mar-Elia 

Win2K Service Pack 1

Install SP1, and benefit from its bug fixes and slipstreaming capability.
By Paul Thurrott 

Win2K's Premier IP Multicast Functionality

Microsoft delivers a rich set of multicast features that help you easily integrate Win2K into your corporate multicast network infrastructure.
By Tao Zhou 

Reader Challenge

Want to test your know-how? Solve this month's Windows 2000 and Windows NT problem and gather the accolades of your peers.
By Kathy Ivens 

Reader to Reader - November 2000

Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows 2000 Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
By Readers 

Microsoft .NET and Windows 2000

Mark Smith asks Microsoft some burning questions about how Win2K fits into Microsoft's .NET strategy.
By Mark Smith 

Opening Folders When Outlook Starts

Outlook's interface doesn't always behave consistently, but you can use an Outlook 2000 VBA routine to work around this annoyance.
By Sue Mosher 

Microsoft Application Center 2000

A key component of Microsoft's .NET strategy, Application Center integrates application scaling, management, and availability.
By David Chernicoff 

Inside Win2K NTFS, Part 1

In this first article of a two-part series, Mark Russinovich explains the workings of NTFS 5.0's attribute indexing, consolidated security, reparse point, and quota tracking.
By Mark Russinovich 

Benchmark Factory 2.5

Put your system to the test.
By John Green 

DirectoryAnalyzer 1.04

Software to ensure a solid AD.
By Ed Roth 

Lightning Strikes

Don't let your hardware go up in smoke. Learn the marks of a top-notch surge suppressor.
By Mark Weitz 

The Eternal Quest: Connect Your Small Network to the Internet

Learn how Win2K's inherent capabilities can do the job.
By Mark Minasi 

Easy Active Directory Scripting for Systems Administrators, Part 2

Explore the properties and methods that two core ADSI interfaces provide to create, delete, and modify almost every AD object.
By Bob Wells 

Browstat

This command-line tool gives you a quick-and-dirty look at browsing on a network.
By Mark Minasi 

Ask Dr. Bob

Find out about the Net Computer utility, open-port prevention, TrackPoint madness, Oracle memory limitations, video-card resolution tips, source-control tools, hard disk upgrade kits, and a SQL Server workaround.
By Bob Chronister 

Daily Answers

Learn about an IE and Office incompatibiity, a Chkdsk limitation on a dual-boot system, a Win2K upgrade glitch, PPTP vs. IPSec, an intentional blue screen procedure, and a server reboot from a client.
By Sean Daily 

Dueling Web Servers

Will the real Web server survey winner please stand up?
By Paul Thurrott 

Intel Pentium 4 Raises the Bar

Intel's Pentium 4 offers new performance and scalability.
By Paul Thurrott 

Visual Studio 7.0, Office 10 Betas Point to .NET

Visual Studio.NET and Office 10 betas offer a peek at Microsoft .NET.
By Paul Thurrott 

Windows Dominance to Continue

IDC predicts client and server OS growth rates through 2004.
By Paul Thurrott 

The Win2K Command Prompt Window

Find out how to customize and use the Command Prompt window, and explore Win2K's folder and filename completion feature.
By Kathy Ivens 

Third-Party Utilities for Win2K

Win2K offers unprecedented functionality, but you'll still need to use third-party utilities to fill in some gaps.
By Michael Otey 

Deployment, Migration, and Management Tools

Find the solutions you need to deploy, migrate, and manage your network OS and applications.
By Tom Iwanski 

Ahead of the Service Pack

Two service pack management programs help you organize service packs and hotfixes on your systems.
By Joshua Orrison 

ERD Utilities

Win2K's and NT 4.0's emergency repair features go only so far. Check out Aelita's ERDisk and Raxco's RepairDisk Manager.
By Tom Iwanski 

Win2K Network Load Balancing

Win2K's Network Load Balancing feature lets you distribute an application's workload among your servers.
By John Green 

Sneak a Peek at Whistler

Whistler, the follow-up OS to Win2K, holds promise for users.
By John D. Ruley 

Exchange 2000 Server's Instant Messaging

Exchange 2000 Server's Instant Messaging offers instant gratification for users who want to communicate in realtime.
By Tony Redmond 

Serving up Internet Mail Connections

Learn the first steps in configuring your Exchange Server systems to communicate across the Internet.
By Paul Robichaux 

PathPing: Traceroute on Steroids

Pump up your IP diagnostic capabilities using Win2K's PathPing utility.
By Sean Daily