SQL Server Magazine August 1998
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Hardware: What You'll Need for NT 5.0
Each version of Windows NT offers new functionality that can help systems administrators manage their networks. Accompanying NT’s fast-paced innovation are impressive advances in hardware technology. This month, Windows NT Magazine examines the rapidly changing hardware market with a look at NT Server 5.0’s hardware specifications, an overview of innovations in business server development for NT 5.0, and a peek at the future of NT hardware.
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[Focus]
Business server development will skyrocket in late 1998 with advances in the Intel server platform and the release of Windows NT 5.0. Learn about the changes in this guide to the new servers and NT 5.0.
By Nik Simpson
Use these guidelines to determine what hardware purchases or upgrades NT 5.0 will require of your system.
By Jordan Ayala
Take a peek at NT's horizon, and you'll see powerful new CPUs, high-bandwidth I/O, new technology standards, and a friendlier vendor community are in NT's future.
By Craig Barth
[Feature]
For the first time, Microsoft will ship Windows NT 5.0 with quota management system. Learn how this new system monitors and limits disk-space usage.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
Implementing data mirroring with failover might be a better high-availability solution for your enterprise than clustering. Here's how to tell whether data mirroring with failover is right for you.
By Brad Cooper
NT 5.0 includes IPSec, the IPv6 security protocol that lets you secure your NT network and keep your existing applications and network hardware. Here's how IPSec works and how to implement it in your organization.
By Tao Zhou
Junk email is scary--protect yourself from it with Exchange 5.5.
By Douglas Toombs
Domino's Pizza rolls out an NT extranet solution with Lotus Development's Lotus Domino.
By Tom Greer
IIS 4.0's numerous setup options can be overwhelming, but knowing which components to install and taking advantage of the software's many features is half the battle.
By Ken Spencer
Know how to troubleshoot bottlenecks in your disk subsystem, and you can properly size a RAID array to give you breathing room for future workloads.
By Curt Aubley
Learn how to manipulate the way NT handles file systems, and improve your file system performance.
By John Savill
You can customize the command prompt and use several function keys to make administering NT easier.
By Charles Kerekes
NT 4.0 has many vulnerabilities. Learn how to protect your NT network.
By Dominique Brezinksi
[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
[Editorial]
The recent growth in the thin-client market presents a bigger question: Are there enough landfills to hold all the throw-away PCs?
By Mark Smith
[En Garde]
A statement of Y2K compliance doesn't guarantee that a firm won't have problems.
By Mark Minasi
[Internals]
Learn how NT implements hardware-supported virtual memory to allocate addresses and uses memory sharing and copy-on-write to manage memory.
By Mark Russinovich
[Product Reviews]
Applied Voice Technology's CallXpress turns a telephone or multimedia computer into one interface from which you can send and receive digital, fax, and audio communications.
By Brian Gallagher
StereoGraphics' CrystalEyes stereo eyewear gives 3-D vision.
By Brian Gallagher
Teubner & Associates' FAXGATE lets several clients on different platforms send faxes on an NT-based server.
By Michael P. Deignan
Kane Security Analyst (KSA), from Intrusiton Detection, is a system security analyzer and assessment tool. KSA uses built-in security intelligence to examine system configurations and find areas that pose risks.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
HP's Kayak XW workstation just got faster.
By Brian Gallagher
CrossTec's NetOp 5.4 for Windows is a remote control utility that lets you control hosts using IPX, TCP/IP, NetGIOS, direct cable connections, and serial modem links.
By Michael P. Deignan
RAScom's RAServer 2500 is an open-architecture, fully scalable remote access solution.
By Michael P. Deignan
As workstations go, the Scream'n Demon 600MHz Powerhouse is enormous, and the fastest Alpha NT workstation tested.
By Brian Gallagher
Security Explorer, from Small Wonders of Orlando, is a utility that lets you view and change the security permissions on files in your Windows NT environment.
By Michael P. Deignan
ServerProtect, from Trend Micro, is a comprehensive virus detection and eradication tool for NT systems that uses a domain concept to manage servers.
By Michael P. Deignan
Tripp Lite's Smart 2200 RM and its PowerAlert Plus software protect your network against surges, brownouts, and spikes.
By Jonathan Cragle
Tivoli Systems' Tivoli Maestro is a network-based job managememt software that supports Windows NT and several UNIX systems.
By Michael P. Deignan
INTRAK's TrendTrak is a program that collects, archives, and graphs statistical data on your server to that you can bettermanage your environment and evaluate furture hardware and software needs based on historical data and project activity.
By Michael P. Deignan
Georgia SoftWorks' Telnet Server let you log on to a remote server and run a systems administration from the privacy of your cubicle.
By Michael P. Deignan
[Lab Notes]
The Lab Guys provide the scoop on thin client computing.
By John Enck
[Inside Out]
Unattended NT 4.0 installations on new machines can be problematic, but these simple tricks make them easy.
By Mark Minasi
[Getting Started with NT]
Assigning permissions on a network can be complicated unless you use a group strategy. Learn how to use global and local groups to make managing users easier.
By Michael D. Reilly
[Scripting Solutions]
You can write a simple script to automate the tedious task of managing passwords.
By Bob Wells
[SQL Server Savvy]
Find out about SQLMail, realtime data extraction, Web-content management, SQL Server running time, hash buckets, lock-esclation problems, and an anomaly with the REVOKE command.
By Brian Moran , et al.
[This Old Resource Kit]
This handy tool lets you remove specific records from your WINS database and output WINS records to an ASCII file.
By Mark Minasi
[Tricks & Traps]
Learn how to use the NewSID utility to change SIDs on your NT network, use command-line parameters with MSMQ, and install NT to a different drive during an unattended installation.
By Bob Chronister
[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.
By Craig Barth
[Book Reviews]
This reference book, which focuses on NT tools, lacks fundamental information about systems administration.
By Mark T. Edmead
[Lab Feature]
Add a second processor to a system you already have or build a system from scratch. Either way, you'll probably save substantially over buying a new server.
By Michael P. Deignan
Taking a course through a training center isn't the only way to study for the MSCE exams. This month the Lab begins a series of reviews of computer-based training self-study options that will help you decide if going it alone is right for you.
By Michael P. Deignan
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