Last year, Christmas arrived around Thanksgiving. The November 2000 TechNet shipment included a CD-ROM that contained the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit Supplement 1. The original Win2K Server resource kit was terrific, except for that poisonous buy-a-copy-for-each-person license agreement that I described in "The Win2K Server Resource Kit," December 2000. But Supplement 1 contains some even better tools, including a much-needed tool for scripting DNS administration. (Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn't made the software license any more palatable.)

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