Just when NT has begun to gain credibility as an enterprise OS, Microsoft insists on subsuming NT under the Windows brand. But is NT Windows? Not really. Mark Russinovich, a well-respected internals expert, proves that NT is directly descended from VMS, an established enterprise OS. In addition, Russinovich demonstrates some important resemblances between NT and its enterprise rival, UNIX.
By Darren Mar-Elia
This free tool can automate your sound driver and ASP extension installations.
By Paula Sharick
Microsoft's two latest security hotfixes help keep hackers out of your system.
By Clayton Johnson
When you attempt to use permissions to restrict access to the Registry, you must understand what each setting does, when to use it, and the ramifications of using it
By Karen Watterson
What is Connection Pooling?
By Mark Smith
As IS managers consider NT for business-critical applications, are they betting their companies on Windows, or are they convinced that there is more to the NT story than Windows?
By Craig Barth
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 Clayton Johnson
Edit your system policy file to push Registry security settings to users across your network and provide users access to finicky software.
By Mark Minasi
The ZAW initiative sparked the development of CCM and its caching technologies.
By Bob Wells
Learn about the basic concepts behind OLE/COM automation and their effect on scripting.
By Mark Russinovich
Linux currently has several major limitations that prevent it from being a contender in any arena other than the small-server segment.
By T.J. Harty
Site Server 3.0's indexing features let you control how your Web server catalogs and searches your Web content.
By Brian Gallagher
Check out the fastest workstation around.
By David Chernicoff
Finding a solution you can live with.
By Brian Gallagher
This installment of the Lab's review of video hardware and software for NT focuses on a notebook computer with built-in video capabilities.
By Michael P. Deignan
The final installment of the Lab's CBT self-study series reviews two MCSE preparation packages.
By Tony Redmond
can Exchange Server and Outlook meet your collaboration needs? Third-party groupware applications can bridge the gap between Microsoft's vision for Exchange server and reality.
By Mark Russinovich
Throughout NT's history, NT has chalenged UNIX for enterprise market dominance, but does this war have a clear winner? Read our expert's comparison of these OSs and decide for yourself whether NT is enterprise-ready.
By Douglas Toombs
To minimize the number of unsolicited inbound connections that enter your network, follow these common-sense suggestions when you implement your network security solution.
By Mark Russinovich
As the industry debates NT's enterprise worthiness, many people might be surprised to learn about NT's close connection to an established enterprise OS.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
A powerful way to monitor NT event logs.
By Mark Joseph Edwards
Transform NT systems into UNIX-like powerhouses.
By Michael P. Deignan
Easy-to-learn enterprise-ready scripting.
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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 Tom R. Halfhill
Digital Equipment's Alpha is the last RISC platform for Windows NT. Thanks to the new 21264 chip. it's also the fasest platform for NT.
By John Enck
This unique thin-client solution combines hardware and software components.
By John Enck
Remote control with a character interface.
By Nicholas DiLisi
Learn how Reality Online migrated Reuter's Web site and Reuters Investor product from UNIX to NT. Now partner sites can access market data more easily.
By Michael P. Deignan
Monitor your systems from any location.
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 Mark Minasi
Will customers jump ship?
By Jim Mohr
Sharing and securing resources between NT and UNIX systems is a complicated undertaking. Here's the information you need to do the job right.
By Michael P. Deignan
Edit the Registry from a remote browser.
By Bob Chronister
Move user profiles between domains, install NT Workstation 4.0 on a dual-boot system with a Win95 FAT32 partition, and compress directories and files on an NTFS partition.
By Michael D. Reilly
Learn about NT's required bot process files, and find out how to troubleshoot problems.
By Mark Minasi
NT 5.0 beta 2's an exciting product, but heed this advice before you install it.
By Jonathan Cragle
Do you want to take control of a remote computer regardless of whether it's in the next room or 3000 miles away? The Windows NT Magazine Lab examines seven remote control products that fit the bill.
By Mark Minasi
Use this simple utility to log inactive workstations off your network.
By John Enck
The Lab Guys pit the ICA thin-client protocol against the RDP thin-client protocol and reveal some surprising and facinating results.
By Mark Minasi
Microsoft's August press briefing updated users about NT 5.0's development; but will the new version meet users' great expectations?
By Douglas Toombs
Use RRAS to filter packets that pass through your Internet router's NICs.
By John Green
Great engineering in a compact server.
By John Enck
Determine whom you can trust.
By Karen Watterson
Install SQL Server on a domain controller at your own risk, shrink your tempdb database, and create your own benchmark.
By Michael D. Reilly
Here is how to build an NT boot disk.