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NT Building Blocks: Internet and Intranet

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Windows NT lays the foundation for building Internet and intranet (I-Net) applications. Because an overwhelming number of NT Web server products are competing for acceptance, we compare them feature by feature. Because new I-Net standards, capabilities, and needs are evolving all the time, this month's focus articles explain some NT 4.0 I-Net technologies and demonstrate how to take advantage of them.


Reader to Reader - September 1996

By Readers, 09/01/1996

Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).

Registering a Domain Name Is Easy

By Richard Reich, 09/01/1996

Fill out an electronic form to register a Web domain.

Test Preparation Series

By Joel Sloss, 09/01/1996

The three books in this series "MS Windows NT Server", "MS Windows NT V. 3.5 Workstation", and "MS Windows 95" offer supplemental and summary information to prepare you for the ...

Microsoft’s Internet Access Server

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 09/01/1996

NT 4.0's new proxy server, IAS, makes connecting your intranet to the Internet much safer than ever before.

Seven Tasks to Get Started with Microsoft Exchange

By Joel Sloss, 09/01/1996

Jump right into practical applications of Exchange 4.0 without disrupting your existing email systems. This how-to guide gives you solutions and an immediate advantage with users.

NTFSDOS Poses Little Security Risk

By Bryce Cogswell, 09/01/1996

What's wrong with a utility that breaks NTFS file security? It wasn't meant to do that. The creators of the NTFSDOS utility claim it poses no serious security risk for secure NT ...

Improving on DHCP

By Mark Minasi, 09/01/1996

DHCP has a few quirks, but you can work around them.

Integrating and Administering DNS

By Spyros Sakellariadis, 09/01/1996

New Windows NT 4.0 tools deliver the solutions for IP address name resolution: Learn how the WINS lookup record can work with DNS and how to use the new DNS Manager in NT 4.0.

Iomega’s Zip Drive

By Alex Pournelle, 09/01/1996

Iomega's Zip drive rivals the floppy disk for portable data storage.

Intergraph’s InterServe Web-300

By Joel Sloss, 09/01/1996

Intergraph's InterServe Web-300 barely even ticks over at a load of more than 700,000 hits per week.

Installation Tips

By Garrett J. Buban, 09/01/1996

Recommendations for setting up Exchange Server.

NT 4.0’s Distributed Component Object Model

By Spyros Sakellariadis, 09/01/1996

What ever became of Network OLE? It metamorphosed into DCOM, NT 4.0's powerful, transparent object-based protocol. When do you need it, and how can it help you? Here's the ...

Digital Envelopes and Signatures

By Lawrence E. Hughes, 09/01/1996

Enhance your email's security by sealing digital envelopes and affixing digital signatures.

Troubleshooting with Microsoft: Making NT and NetWare Get Along

By Garrett J. Buban, 09/01/1996

NT and NetWare can peacefully coexist if you know about some common problems and their solutions.

NT News Network

By Joel Sloss, 09/01/1996

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.

Multi-Homing on the Web

By Ed Tittel, 09/01/1996

House multiple Web sites on one NT Web server-without compromising each site's unique identity. Multi-homing is the way.

NetCarta’s WebMapper: O! What a Tangled Web We Unweave

By Tim Daniels, 09/01/1996

NetCarta WebMapper charts a course for synchronizing information among multiple Web sites.

New Logo for Windows NT

By Mark Smith, 09/01/1996

The new logo will bring new NT applications and support. But be wary of new guarantees.

Web Server Software Roundup

By Joel Sloss, 09/01/1996

A roll of the dice? A throw at the dart board? Recommendations from friends? How do you choose among all the NT-based Web server products? The Windows NT Magazine Lab reviews ...

Shockwave Rocks Multimedia Development

By Eric Shanfelt, 09/01/1996

Imagine! Interactive multimedia-audio, video, and animation-on the Web. Check out Shockwave's compression technology for integrating multimedia in a Web page for delivery over ...

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions

By Bob Chronister, 09/01/1996

Answers to questions about: how to set up a peer-to-peer network, is NT secure, what about the new DOS reader, what is the difference between EIDE and SCSI, problems with Service ...

Choosing an HTML Editor

By T.J. Harty, 09/01/1996

HTML Editors offer the same abilities, how they let you use those abilities is what makes some stand above the rest. A review of four programs.

Trends and Revelations

By Joel Sloss, 09/01/1996

Find out what the Lab Guys think about NT products and developments.

NT Europe

By David Moss, 09/01/1996

Keyboards that speak your language.

Exchange’s Core Components

By Lawrence E. Hughes, 09/01/1996

The five key pieces of Exchange.

Name Resolution

By Spyros Sakellariadis, 09/01/1996

An investigation of the name resolution types.

Running Them Up the Flagpole

By Joel Sloss, 09/01/1996

Performance testing of Web server packages.

How to Set Up Virtual Domains

By Tong Lai Yu, 09/01/1996

Learn the tricks of setting up multiple domains on one NT server.

That Depends on Your Definition of Secure

By Joel Sloss, 09/01/1996

No matter what its original purpose, NTFSDOS requires you to protect your system. Our assistant lab manager tells how to prevent NTFSDOS from invading your system.

Installation Checklist

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 09/01/1996

A checklist for installing IAS.


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