Getting the most from your IS architecture is often what sets your organization apart from your competition. Using Windows NT to its fullest potential can help you gain that competitive advantage. This month, Windows NT Magazine looks at 10 companies in industries ranging from health care to natural resources that are using NT in unique and innovative ways. From the far reaches of Australia to Sweden, these innovators are making the most of NT.
By John Green
The quad-Xeon ProLiant 6000 is a solid server with substantial expansion capacity and might work very well for a small business.
By Jonathan Cragle
NCR's WorldMark 4300 Terminal Server lets IS departments provide continuous computing through thin-client terminals that access a fault-tolerant central storage system.
By John Enck
Wyse's Winterm 3315SE is a flexible, easy-to-configure, and easy-to-use Windows-based terminal with compelling support for multiple-host connections and the ability to switch between connections.
By Michael P. Deignan
IntraSofts's KeyVision 2.0 is an enterprise-leve Registry maintenance utility that lets you use a Web browser to manage your Registries.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Soft Winter's seNTry 2020 protects your Windows NT disk subsystems.
By Jim Cole
BarnStormer Software's Directory Catalog 2.0 is a handy utility that lets you monitor and analyze your file system's changes.
By Mark Russinovich
Take a guided tour of the phases of NT's initialization process.
By Mark Minasi
If you use RAS to connect Windows NT Workstation or Windows 95 machines to an NT network, you might have noticed that the network's computers don't show up in Network Neighborhood. Here's why.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
AXENT Technologies's PCShield is a software add-on that adds new features and control mechanisms to your OS's existing security setup. PCShield scales well and fits into most networks.
By Jonathan Chau
Network Instruments' Observer 5.1 is a helpful network-analysis tool that works well on existing networks.
By T.J. Harty
Allaire's ColdFusion 4.0, a deployment platform for delivering Web applications, takes a giant step forward in providing Web developers and administrators more power and functionality.
By Mark Russinovich
Visible changes in Win2K's boot process.
By Kathy Ivens
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 Randall C. Kennedy
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 Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
Microsoft is attempting to make Windows 2000's network connection interfaces easier to set up. Find out whether Microsoft's attempts are working.
By Aaron Sakovich
Alpha processors now come in many shapes and sizes. Here's a look at differences between Alpha systems and what to expect when you buy an Alpha processor.
By Aaron Sakovich
A table showing the Alpha chip's processor designs and corresponding process technologies.
By Tao Zhou
Windows 2000 gives you the power to design and implement a comprehensive public key security infrastructure for youre interprise. Here's an introduction to the PKI components in Windows 2000.
By Sakari Kouti
Windows 2000's Active Directory (AD) improves on the NT domain model by expanding admonistrative rights and offering a more flexible structure. Here's a hassle-free way to migrate your existing domain models to AD.
By Curt Aubley
Answers to three questions concerning Performance Monitor that will help you use counters, solve memory starvation problems, and optimize CPU usage.
By David Chernicoff
MCSE certification without practical experience and the availability of wizards are creating a job pool of people who are superficially qualified at best.
By Michael D. Reilly
Editing the NT Registry can be scary. Understanding the parts of the Registry and how the Registry editors work makes this task easier.
By Karen Watterson
Discover a way to speed ADO applications, the functionality of local named pipes, a query to find out which service pack SQL Server is running, and options for a SQL Server system search.
By Mark Minasi
These tools perform similar functions but with different results.
By Bob Chronister
Finf out how Microsoft has changed the syntax for performing an unattended installation in Windows 2000, prevent NT 4.0 from creating the My Briefcase desktop application, and troubleshoot modem installations on a network.
By Mark Smith
Mark Smith reviews and rates his 1998 industry predictions.
By Aaron Sakovich
A chart of Alpha processors' performance improvement since Microsoft introduced the Alpha version of Windows NT.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
Web sites that offer more information about Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).
By Eric Pearce
Learn how to configure PPTP on common Windows platforms and how to verify PPTP operation.
By Brian Gallagher
Brian Gallagher's personal experiences at the Accelerated Certification Real Education Workshops (ACREW) MCSE Boot Camp.
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Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
By Bob Wells
Third-party components provide an easy way to add functionality to your scripts that WSH and other COM scripting languages don't provide.
By Ellen Beck Gardner
Add NT to your network as painlessly as possible.
By Christa Anderson
Companies are using Windows NT in unique and innovative ways to solve today's business problems. Find out who's developing innovative NT-based solutions and making the most of the enterprise.
By Toby J. Velte
Use simulation programs and network monitoring tools to proactively monitor your network's devices, WAN links, and LAN.
By Tony Redmond
Moving Exchange Server systems used to be almost impossible. The new Move Server Wizard makes reoganization of an exchange environment more feasible.
By Mark Minasi
When Microsoft wants to raise a product'sprice, it foes so unobtrusively, often through the product's licensing provisions.
By Michael P. Deignan
StreetTalk for Windows NT 8.5 fully integrates security, messaging, and file-and-print services into your network's directory-services structure.
By Brian Gallagher
The latest installment of the Lab's ongoing examination of videoconferencing products is a review of Microsoft's NetShow 3.0 and Eastman Kodak's DVC323 digital video camera.
By John Enck
Find out which products the Lab Guys seleted as their "Labsolutely" favorites of 1998.
By Goran Sedvall
Keep your help desk from flooding by autoconfiguring settings. The author uses Netscape as an example.
By Brian Gallagher
One of the Lab Guys goes to boot camp, tests his limits, and earns his MCSE.