SQL Server Magazine May 1998

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Windows NT doesn't come optimized out of the box; you have to make some modifications and adjustments to fine-tune the OS and BackOffice components for your network environment. This month, Windows NT Magazine gives you tips to optimize your NT systems and applications for peak performance.
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[Focus]

7 Tips to Optimize SMS

Optimize SMS components, including SP3, SQL Server, software distribution function, history files, inventory function, RAS clients, and SMS Administrator machines.

Optimizing IIS for Peak Performance

Proper use of variables and ActiveX components in your Web applications and IIS 4.0's built-in performance tuning tools can help you get the most from your Web presence.

Optimizing Microsoft Transaction Server

Tips for preventing MTS from overburdening your network.

Optimizing NT RAS

Configure the RAS/DUN service and tweak TCP/IP settings to increase the speed and reliability of RAS sessions.

Tuning Your Database with SQL Trace

Do you want your SQL Server to run faster? Use these tips for profiling the peformance of your data-access applications.




[Feature]

Get Connected

Microsoft's ILS helps users with dynamic IP addresses track down one another.

Maintaining Exchange's Information Store

The database structure in Exchange is unique, and the databases can't function optimally unless they receive regular attention. Here's how to give the Information Store's databases the care that will keep them in top form.

Multiple UNC Provider: NT's Traffic Cop

In mixed NT and NetWare networks, this traffic cop brings network traffic to a screeching halt. Here are three methods to keep traffic flowing.

Package Command Manager Service

SMS SP2 greatly improves the PCM service. Now you can distribute applications to user desktops without user interaction or intervention.

Reader to Reader - May 1998

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

Troubleshooting Windows NT System Configuration

Learn how to alter your Windows NT system configuration to make tasks easier.

Understanding and Using LoadSim 5.0: Part 4

In this final installment, you'll use LoadSim to run tests and interpret the results.




[Reader Challenge]

User and Password Problems





[Editorial]

Windows Everywhere





[Internals]

Windows NT Security, Part 1

Gain basic knowledge of NT security policies and procedures and make the right choices to protect your system.




[Product Reviews]

FINAL 6.0


Octel Unified Messenger: Access Voicemail and Email From One User Interface


Open View ManageX


surfCONTROL Scout 1.7


SynCrypt 1.1





[Lab Notes]

The Last Word on ISDN--Maybe

One Lab guy explores reader observations and suggested alternatives in his continued plight with an ISDN line.




[Inside Out]

Getting the Mail

Successful transmission of a message across the Internet requires cooperation among different protocols on several machines. Here's how POP3 makes email work.




[Getting Started with NT]

Performance Monitor and Networks

User Performance Monitor to analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize your network.




[Scripting Solutions]

Commanding NT's Command Line

Perl's powerful text processing capabilities can put you back in control of NT's command line.




[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server

Find out about email routing agents, triggers, FOREIGN KEY references, @@microsoftversion, hidden objects in EM, ODBC 3.5 connection pooling, suspect databases, transaction batching, tempdb, and SMP optimization.




[This Old Resource Kit]

AddUsers

Here's a tool for quick and easy management of many users.




[Tricks & Traps]

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions

Here's information about using clone versus standard servers, assigning users without user Manager, and using the error checking tools in Disk Administrator.




[News Analysis]

NT News Analysis

This department focuses on what's new in operating systems, hardware, software, support, scalability, the enterprise and Windows NT's take on the trends in the marketplace.




[NT Europe]

Tecmar ETS420C Travan NS8





[Lab Feature]

Alpha Workstation Explosion

The 533MHx NT Alpha workstation reviews continue with an examination of three systems.

Jasmine: Objects @ Work

This ODBMS product provides an application development environment for building dynamic client/server and Internet applications.

SQL Server 8-Way Scalability

The Lab tests SQL Server on four-and eight-processor systems.

Thin Clients for Thick Applications

The Lab's ongoing testing of corporate desktop systems concludes with a look at three products and some thoughts on what the future holds for thin-client technology.