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Windows IT Pro Magazine December 1999
[Focus]  Inside Babylon Preview Babylon's most significant new features and where Babylon leverages existing SNA Server technology, and discover what pieces of the enterprise-interoperability puzzle Babylon is still missing. — Michael Otey Single Sign-On Learn about SSO, including solutions for Win2K and NT. — Vijay Sankar , et al. Windows CE Interoperability with Windows 2000 and NT Learn why Windows CE is a choise in Win2K and NT networks and how you can use two Windows CE devices -WBTs and H/PCs- on your network. — Christa Anderson [Feature] Configuring VPNs Use IPSec and GRE to send secure information over VPNs. — Ken Miller , et al. Deciphering Cryptography Decrypt the basics of cryptography, discover the different cryptographic algorithms, and decode how NT uses cryptography. — Gary C. Kessler Exchange 2000 Server and Active Directory Exchange 2000 Server's integration with Win2K and AD gives you much to think about. Here's the background you need to begin your deployment. — Tony Redmond Top 4 NT Freeware Utilities Discover a handful of free NT utilities that make your job a little easier and solve common problems. — Drew Robb Trusted and Trusting Domains in NT 4.0 Enhance security and optimize performance in your enterprise by gaining a better understanding of trust relationships. — L. J. Locher [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. — Kathy Ivens [Reader to Reader] Reader to Reader - December 1999 Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft). — Readers [Editorial] 1999 in Review Mark Smith takes a look back at the events that shaped the IT industry in 1999. — Mark Smith [ForefroNT] Synchronizing Windows CE Windows CE now synchronizes with other Windows OSs. Microsoft needs to provide Windows CE synchronization with non-Windows OSs and encourage developers to create applications downloadable directly to devices. — David Chernicoff [En Garde] More Bad Computing Law Learn about the Y2K Act and UCITA, and find out how to protect yourself from antiuser computer laws. — Mark Minasi [Internals] Inside Win2K Scalability Enhancements, Part 2 Win2K helps the kernel scale more effectively and helps applications use processing cycles more efficently than in NT 4.0. — Mark Russinovich [Product Reviews] AutoInstall 1.17 Ease application deployment. — Tom Iwanski ClusterX 2.0 NT high-availability application software. — Jonathan Cragle DLT 8000 Get high-end server backup performance. — John Green NetApp F740 A fast, high-capacity multiprotocol file server. — Mark Weitz VXA-1 Promising extraordinary restore reliability. — John Green [Lab Notes] Realtime NT The Lab Guys wonder whether a market exists for a realtime version of NT. — David Chernicoff [Inside Out] Offline Files Win2K Pro's new caching feature provides speed, availability, reliability, and laptop support. — Mark Minasi [Getting Started with NT] A Tour Through Beta 3 Take a tour of Win2K's MMC, where you'll find some new tools, as well as new locations for your favorite NT tools. — Michael D. Reilly [Scripting Solutions] Windows Scripting Host 2.0 WSH has undergone many improvements that make writing, editing, and debugging scripts easy - even using multiple languages. — Bob Wells [SQL Server Savvy] Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server Karen and Brian discuss User DSNs vs. System DSNs, scripts that let you view temporary table structures, enhancements in OLAP Services 7.5, how to disable update triggers, and SQL Agent jobs. — Brian Moran , et al. [Watch Your RAS] Directing IPX Broadcast Traffic Discover how to modify the values of the DisableDialinNetbios and NetBiosRouting Registry subkeys to solve common IPX-based RAS problems. — Sean Daily [This Old Resource Kit] Movetree Learn to use a handy tool that lets you move objects between Actice Directory domains in a forest. — Mark Minasi [Tricks & Traps] Ask Dr. Bob Your Windows 2000 Questions Learn about name conflicts, capacity planning, application-installation failure, Win2K installaton removal, the Kernel not found error message, NTFS maintenance, and more. — Bob Chronister [News Analysis] Windows NT Magazine Chooses Best of Show at MEC99 Web Windows NT Magazine identified five Best of Show products that solved a business need in a particularly elegant manner with feature-rich implementations and intuitive appeal. — John Green The Year of the Messenger Exchange Server's growth has validated the importance of messaging applications in enterprise computing. — Barrie Sosinsky What Happened to Alpha? The Alpha processor's considerable performance edge over competitive Intel microprocessors made the processor significant. — Barrie Sosinsky [TOP 10] More NT Command-Script Techniques The author shares more command-line tips that will add power to your scripts. — Michael Otey [Buyer's Guide] Fax Servers and Add-ons That Work with Microsoft Exchange Server The lab extends its coverage of Exchange Server add-ons and throws in fax servers to boot. — Sue Cooper , et al. [Lab Comparative] Exterminator Tools Networks of any size need an antivirus program. This review narrows the field so that you can make an informed purchase. — Jonathan Chau [Lab Feature] Beat Your NIC Bottleneck Blues NSI Software's Balance Suite for Windows NT 2.71 and IP Metrics Software's NIC Express 2.0 let systems administrators combine two or more LAN connections to provide a high-performance data pipe. — Jonathan Cragle [Windows 2000 Pro] Virtual Memory Tuning Discover how much RAM your system needs for Win2K Pro, and explore the performance effects of moving your Win2K Pro system's virtual memory paging file. — John D. Ruley |
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