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Craig Zacker

Craig Zacker is a freelance author, editor, and teacher. He's written books and articles on a variety of Windows and networking topics. His most recent book is Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (Microsoft Press).


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Windows Hardware Assessment

By LJ Zacker, 08/06/2009

Use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit to create a hardware inventory and to document your computers' configurations.

Multiple UNC Provider: NT's Traffic Cop

By Craig Zacker, 05/01/1998

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

UNC Identifies Network Resources

By Craig Zacker, 05/01/1998

MS Windows NT Server Resource Kit Version 4.0, Supplement Two

By Craig Zacker, 04/01/1998

The resource kit is an invaluable tool for power users and network administrators.

NetVision's Synchronicity for NT

By Craig Zacker, 04/01/1998

NetVision's Synchronicity for NT typifies the replication-based metadirectory. Here's how the product works and why.

Zoomit VIA and the Dedicated Metadirectory

By Craig Zacker, 04/01/1998

Hankering for a unified view of all the directories on your heterogeneous network? This solution offer full-featured metadirectory support and a robust directory service to help ...

Metadirectories: Directory Services for the Enterprise

By Craig Zacker, 04/01/1998

Examine products that integrate the functionality of multiple directory services into one NT directory.

LDAP and the Future of Directory Services, Part 2

By Craig Zacker, 11/01/1997

This conclusion of a two-part article examines how Netscape, Novell, and Microsoft implement LDAP in their directory service solutions.

LDAP Clients and Directory Services

By Craig Zacker, 11/01/1997

Adding, browsing, or modifying directory entries.

How to Name and Place Objects in the Directory Information Tree

By Craig Zacker, 10/01/1997

In a Directory Information Tree (DIT), you classify directory service entries into object classes.

LDAP and the Future of Directory Services, Part 1

By Craig Zacker, 10/01/1997

A new version of LDAP is on the horizon. This first installment of a two-part article examines how the revised protocol might change and how those changes might affect the future ...

NAdminNT Brings NT Domains and NDS Together

By Craig Zacker, 07/01/1997

Access and manage NDS users and NT domain users and groups through one interface with Novell Administrator for Windows NT.

Novell's Workstation Manager-A First Step Toward Windows NT and NDS Coexistence

By Craig Zacker, 05/01/1997

Workstation Manager, a new module in Novell's IntranetWare Client for Windows NT, gives you one logon to NetWare and NT networks and lets you access NT objects via an NDS tree.

Windows NT and NDS Together at Last

By Craig Zacker, 03/01/1997

Novell's new NetWare Client for NT offers improved Novell Directory Services administration tools.



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