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Security and Migration Before you upgrade from Windows NT to Windows 2000, you need to consider the security ramifications. This issue covers the steps you'll need to take to ensure a secure Win2K system, including patching the system, disabling services, and enabling basic security policies.		• Subscribe • Renew • Master CD • Change Mailing Address • Customer Service • Back Issues • Article Reprints • Group Discounts
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Access Denied

Randy answers your Windows 2000 security questions about restricting concurrent logons, monitoring who is logged on to a domain’s servers, changing the number of days in a password-expiration notification, and more.
By Randy Franklin Smith 

Secure Your SOHO, Part 1

Learn how and where Win2K is vulnerable to accidental or purposeful intrusion—through NetBIOS, native services, and ports—and how to eliminate these open doors.
By Paula Sharick 

Security Considerations for Migrating from NT to Win2K, Part 1

In the first installment of this multipart series, you’ll learn about the steps you take to initially configure Win2K: patch the system, disable services, and enable basic security policies.
By Shawn Porter 

NT Gatekeeper

Jan answers your Windows NT security questions about leveraging SCE’s functionality without installing it, hardening the TCP/IP and NetBIOS protocols against DoS attacks, using the TCP/IP security packet filter, and more.
By Jan De Clercq 

Using the SAM Database’s Hidden Usercomment Field

The SAM database contains a field that’s inaccessible from NT’s User Manager GUI, making it an ideal place to store data you don’t want users to see. Reader Michael Hammond offers a batch file to populate the field and a script to parse the contents.
By Readers