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Maintaining highly available services and applications is crucial to any network. This month, Windows NT Magazine provides tips on how to ensure high availability. You'll discover how the Windows NT Load Balancing Service can provide reliability and scalability for server applications. We'll show you how to set up a high-availability Web site using Microsoft Cluster Server and Internet Information Server 4.0. You'll also learn that although clustering inproves a Microsoft Exchange Server system's availability, clustering isn't a fail-safe solution.


The Dexterous HTML-based ISM

By Ken Spencer, 06/01/1999

HTML-based ISM provides remote IIS management over an HTTP connection.

Profile Maker 2.7

By Michael P. Deignan, 06/01/1999

Automated Profile Management's Profile Maker 2.7 is an administration tool you can use to automate profile creation and management in user-executed applications.

Netscape Proxy Server 3.5

By William Wong, 06/01/1999

Learn about proxy arrays, reverse proxy, and multiple proxy servers, and find out how Netscape Proxy Server can benefit your network.

Enhance Security Through Registry Permissions

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 06/01/1999

You can restrict users' permissions to Registry keys as much as you restict users' permissions to files and directories. Here's how!

RAID Performance Configuration

By John Green, 06/01/1999

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions

By Bob Chronister, 06/01/1999

Find out how to use previous backups to perform a restore; create Win98 user profiles in NT networks; prevent users from mapping network drives; triple-boot NT, DOS, and Win9x; ...

Chasing 9s

By Mark Smith, 06/01/1999

Ensure device driver reliability. Discussion of faulty third-party device drivers as the major cause of reliability problems.

Visio Enterprise 5.0

By Jonathan Cragle, 06/01/1999

Visio Enterprise 5.0 lets you quickly create document models of your networks, databases, and software projects.

Inside Encrypting File System, Part 1

By Mark Russinovich, 06/01/1999

Learn about Win2K's built-in encryption facility.

More LMHOSTS Tips

By Mark Minasi, 06/01/1999

The author provides additional information to help you decide when and how to specify machines' domain controllers.

Scripting 101

By Bob Wells, 06/01/1999

Learn how to create and structure WSH scripts.

Small Business Server Overhaul

By Joshua Feinberg, 06/01/1999

Microsoft adds functionality to BackOffice Small Business Server 4.5 to ease installation, deployment, remote administration, and management.

MAGNITUDE XL-2800

By Randall S. Nieland, 06/01/1999

XIOtech's MAGNITUDE family of disk arrays is a fault-tolerant, scalable, and flexible way to add storage space.

Reader to Reader - June 1999

By Readers, 06/01/1999

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

Big Clusters Solve Big Problems

By Christa Anderson, 06/01/1999

Using clustering technology, NCSA combines 192 processors to make an NT-based supercomputer.

Rely on the Windows NT Load Balancing Service

By Ken Spencer, 06/01/1999

WLBS uses clustering and load balancing to make server application reliable and scalable.

DHCP Foibles

By Sean Daily, 06/01/1999

Exploit these tips to prevent and troubleshoot common RAS-breaking DHCP problems.

Bulk User Create

By Brian Shea, 06/01/1999

Clustering Exchange Server

By Tony Redmond, 06/01/1999

Custering improves an Exchange Server system's availibility, but isn't a fail-safe solution.

DB2 Universal Database 5.2

By Timothy Dyck, 06/01/1999

DB2 5.2 offers Java support, parallel processing, and state-of-the-art graphical tools.

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server

By Karen Watterson, 06/01/1999

Learn about visible system objects, SQL Server 7.0's improved date aritmetic, distributed heterogeneous gueries, difficult DTS connection names, and the autoshrink function.

Win32 Scripting Resources

By Bob Wells, 06/01/1999

Acctrol for RAS

By Michael P. Deignan, 06/01/1999

SpartaCom's Acctrol for RAS is an accounting and control system built on client/server technology for NT's RAS.

Windows Installer Takes Control

By Darren Mar-Elia, 06/01/1999

Learn how to use the new Windows installer service to manage Windows software installations more efficiently.

InterAccess Terminal Server

By Michael P. Deignan, 06/01/1999

InterAccess Terminal Server is an NT-based service that monitors your COM ports and lets users log on to your NT server and obtain shell access, similar to a direct serial ...

Rmtshare

By Mark Minasi, 06/01/1999

Manage share permissions from the command line.

Reader Challenge

By Kathy Ivens, 06/01/1999

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.

The Wolves Are Circling Again

By Mark Minasi, 06/01/1999

Discussion of Microsoft's flexibility on announced shipping dates for OSs and service packs.

Express Assist 2.2

By Joshua Feinberg, 06/01/1999

Seem Software developed Express Assist 2.2 to fill some perceived gaps in Microsoft Outlook Express' functionality.

Remote Access Management with RADIUS

By Tao Zhou, 06/01/1999

RADIUS technology lets you use your existing user directory to authenticate your remote users for both ISP and corporate access. Here's how RADIUS works.

NT Clustering

By Jonathan Cragle, 06/01/1999

Concerning NT Clustering and MSCS, the Lab Guys are worried that Microsoft has dropped the ball.

Additional BUC Components

By Brian Shea, 06/01/1999

BUC uses several constant values and supporting function. This sidebar is a discussion of some of these peripheral tools.

An Interview with Robert Pennington

By Christa Anderson, 06/01/1999

Robert Pennington is the Windows NT Cluster Group's team leader at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)-the group that saw the growing importance of NT and ...

Build a High-Availability Web Site with MSCS and IIS 4.0

By Jim Plas, 06/01/1999

Explore MSCS's basic funtionality and walk through how to use MSCS with IIS to set up a high-availability Web site that gives you peace of mind.

Essential Keyboard Shortcuts

By Michael Otey, 06/01/1999

The author shares his favorite shortcuts to help you save time while you work.

Domain Name Resolution with DNS

By Michael D. Reilly, 06/01/1999

DNS provides name resolution for IPaddresses outside your network and works with WINSto keeo up with IP address changes.

Windows Interface Changes

By David Chernicoff, 06/01/1999

Change for the Sake of Change--Discussion of the Microsoft change from double-click behavior to single click option.

Managing NT Environment Variables

By Charles Kerekes, 06/01/1999

NT environment variables hold useful information that you can use to make your scripts more powerful.

Do You Need to Rebuild?

By Tony Redmond, 06/01/1999

Exchange Server 5.5 uses database space more efficiently than previous versions, but you still might need to rebuild your IS or Directory database.

Gateway ALR 9200 Server

By John Green, 06/01/1999

The Gateway ALR 9200 Server is the newest addition to the ALR Server series that offers the combined technologies of Gateway 2000 and Advanced Logic Research (ALR) \, which is now ...

Synchronicity for NT

By Michael P. Deignan, 06/01/1999

If your company's heterogeneous environment runs various OSs and application, you spend a lot of time creating and assigning passwords to new user accounts or modifying existing ...

WinShield

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 06/01/1999

Citadel Technology's WinShield is a desktop management and security package for NT Workstation and Win9x systems that lets an administgrator define and control the desktop at a ...


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