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[Focus]

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Build Redundant IP Routing
Redundant IP routing helps you gain and maintain a competitive advantage in e-business.
 — Tao Zhou


Mastering the Recovery Console
In Win2K, Microsoft introduces several system-recovery features that make repairing an unbootable system easier than before.
 — Sean Daily


Using Ntbackup with Win2K and NT
What you need to know to pick the best storage solution for your environment.
 — Todd O. Klindt

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[Feature]

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AD Sites, Part 2
Learn about intrasite and intersite replication paths and site topologies, and create an AD site that works for you.
 — Sean Deuby


Indexing Service at Your Fingertips
Employ Indexing Service to build catalogs that contain an index of file-system documents and their property information.
 — Ken Spencer


Navigating Name Resolution, Part 2
Overcome name-resolution problems and improve network client performance and stability.
 — Sean Daily


Protecting the NT Security Log
Explore how to use the system events and policy change auditing categories to trip up intruders.
 — Randy Franklin Smith

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[Reader Challenge]

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

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[Reader to Reader]

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Reader to Reader - July 2000
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows 2000 Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
 — Readers , et al.

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[Editorial]

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Mag.net-izing Windows 2000/NT Solutions
Mark Smith highlights the best of the Windows 2000 Magazine Network--your IT answer portal.
 — Mark Smith

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[Outlook VBA on Demand]

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Showing Contacts' Email Addresses
Learn how to build a small application that lets you display a contact's email address instead of the contact's name.
 — Sue Mosher

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[ForefroNT]

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Stop Disaster in Its Tracks
Take the necessary steps to ensure that your disaster recovery plan is the best one for your business.
 — David Chernicoff

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[En Garde]

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Do Betas Work?
Is beta testing really the best way to get the bugs out?
 — Mark Minasi

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[Internals]

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Inside Win32 Services, Part 2
Win2K improves on NT 4.0's service startup and shutdown procedures.
 — Mark Russinovich

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[Product Reviews]

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DiskXtender 4.2
Manage your media with robust HSM capabilities.
 — Ed Roth


LogCaster 2.51
Give your network a sixth sense.
 — Jonathan Chau


Mobile Essentials 2.5
Easily change your laptop's settings as you travel.
 — Tom Iwanski


NTFSDOS Professional Edition 3.03
Access NTFS from MS-DOS.
 — Michael Schlei


PerfectDisk 2000
Defragment your disk - even the Master File Table.
 — Michael Norian


ServiceKeeper 1.4.10
Improve your ability to install, remove, and schedule services.
 — Oswald Forster


UltraBac 5.5 Stand Alone Disaster Recovery for Windows NT
Streamline standalone backup and disaster recovery.
 — Ed Roth

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[Lab Notes]

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Time to Change Your Upgrade Paradigm
Put you upgrade where your eyes are- change your monitor.
 — Lab Guys

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[Inside Out]

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The Active Directory Migration Tool
ADMT lets you incrementally set up an Active Directory and redo steps that don't go right the first time.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Scripting Solutions]

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Windows Management Instrumentation: The Journey Begins
Jump into WMI scrpiting: Explore WMI's Common Information Model and learn how to use wbemtest.exe to determine WMI namespaces.
 — Bob Wells

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[Watch Your RAS]

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Win2K Pro on the Road, Part 2
Discover how to work around some of Win2K's RAS and DUN gotchas - and learn about a potentially costly bug.
 — Sean Daily

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[This Old Resource Kit]

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The Service.vbs Script
Take control of remote resources from the command line.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Ask the Doctor
Learn sbout NT's sneaky FAT16 conversion, BDC migration without reinstallation, duplicate SIDs, a DHCP problem on laptops, and CNAMEs on DNS servers.
 — Sean Daily

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[News Analysis]

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Application Center 2000
Application Center will offer and extend important Win2K functionality such as management, scalability, and availability.
 — Barrie Sosinsky

IBM Hardens Its Servers
IBM hardens its Netfinity servers for Win2K to provide fault tolerance and make the servers attractive to Win2K enterprise customers.
 — Barrie Sosinsky

Making Money from Migration Services
Win2K offers hardware and services vendors a market opportunity to provide migration services as part of large hardware deployments.
 — Barrie Sosinsky

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[TOP 10]

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Microsoft Management Console Snap-ins
Win2K's systems management MMC snap-ins let you create a customized management environment.
 — Michael Otey

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[Buyer's Guide]

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Job Scheduling Software
Find the Windows 2000- and Windows NT-based tools you need to automate tasks and make your job easier.
 — John Green

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[Lab Feature]

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Teradata 3.0.1 for Windows NT
NCR designed Teradata to provide enterprise-level scalability to NT data warehouses.
 — Michael Otey

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[Windows 2000 Pro]

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Key Recovery Console Commands
Get the most out of Win2K Pro's new Recovery Console tool.
 — John D. Ruley

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[Exchange & Outlook Troubleshooter]

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Exchange 2000 Storage Exposed, Part 1
Dig into Exchange 2000 to find out how its database engine stores and recovers information.
 — Jerry Cochran

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[Best Practices for Exchange]

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Mitigating Disaster
Your server has fallen, and it can't get up. Thank goodness you had a disaster-recovery plan.
 — Paul Robichaux