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BackOffice Performance: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks

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Optimizing BackOffice for your environment can become a full-time occupation--fortunately, it doesn't have to. This month, we bring you more than 100 techniques, tips, and tricks to speed your disk, accelerate your network, and enhance your SQL Server, Internet Information Server, and Systems Management Server.


More Windows NT Performance Monitor

By Michael D. Reilly, 04/01/1997

Learn how counters can help you assess your system's health.

Eli Lilly Automates Its NT Performance Monitoring

By Tom Greer, 04/01/1997

Facing explosive growth in its Windows NT computing environment, Eli Lilly and Company turns to RoboMon NT to automate its performance monitoring.

Automated Performance Monitoring with RoboMon NT

By Tom Greer, 04/01/1997

RoboMon NT archives its data and can apply its artificial intellignece to that data to learn how to solve new problems.

Cairo--Are We There Yet?

By Jon Honeyball, 04/01/1997

Whether you consider Microsoft's elusive Cairo a product or a collection of ideas, Microsoft's vision has yet to gel. Find out which key components are available today and which ...

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions

By Bob Chronister, 04/01/1997

Learn how you can activate the Num Lock key whenever you reboot from NT 4.0, set up DUN in NT 4.0, resolve a Port is busy message, and much, much more.

Windows CE Meets Window NT

By Tim Daniels, 04/01/1997

When the documentation get you nowhere fast, you need the expertise that comes with in-the-trenches experience. Here's how to make a Windows CE Handheld PC work with Windows NT ...

Installing Applications Across Your Network

By Clayton Johnson, 04/01/1997

A Registry change can save money and time when you use your server to install software across the network.

10 More Performance-Enhancing Ideas for SQL Server

By Robert D. Schneider, 04/01/1997

Make your powerful, reliable database applications fast, too.

SuperDisk-NT and SuperCache-NT: Super Speed for Your Disk

By John Enck, 04/01/1997

Give your machine a performance boost using a RAM disk and disk caching software that runs under NT.

Medtronic's Parallel Universes

By Karen Watterson, 04/01/1997

Medtronic, a leading medical technology company has been using BsinessObjectives since 1994.

SMS Software Distribution

By Brady Richardson, 04/01/1997

Distribution to a workstation is a three-phase operation.

Peak Net.Jet

By Alex Pournelle, 04/01/1997

Peak Net.Jet speeds Web access in a different way.

Common Window NT Problems

By Glenn Grant, 04/01/1997

Microsoft engineers answer questions about user profiles, security, setup, upgrade, installation, and printing.

Enterprise Testing Environment

By Joel Sloss, 04/01/1997

The "Windows NT Magazine" Lab can model a variety of network arrangements to test performance.

BusinessObjects 4.0-Answers the Query

By Karen Watterson, 04/01/1997

Business Object's client/server query, reporting and analytical tools can give your users database functionality and help you manage your database query environment.

InterScan E-Mail VirusWall

By Jonathan Chau, 04/01/1997

Trand Micro's InterScan E-Mail VirusWall 1.72 is a service that acts as a gateway between your computer and a SMTP mail server.

NT Europe

By Jon Honeyball, 04/01/1997

Europeans would like to have local competitions too.

Diskeeper 2.0

By Jonathan Chau, 04/01/1997

Executive Software's Diskeeper 2.0 defragements your disk while you sleep.

The Three-Year Plan

By Mark Smith, 04/01/1997

As you start your application deployment plans for the next few years, you need to put Windows NT in perspective.

Build a Network Systems ActiveX control Using VB 5.0 Control Creation Edition

By Michael Otey, 04/01/1997

The new VB 5.0 Control Creation Edition makes building ActiveX controls almost as easy as building a typical VB program.

A Brief Preview of the Visual Basic 5.0 Development Environment

By Michael Otey, 04/01/1997

An overview of the beta version of Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition.

FrontPage 97 with Bonus Pack

By Jonathan Chau, 04/01/1997

FrontPage 97 is a complete Web management suite that includes an HTML editor.

Techniques to Speed Up Your NT Network

By Joel Sloss, 04/01/1997

Learn how to add network throughput to your resource and application servers, based on testing examples from the Windows NT Magazine Lab.

Inside the Windows NT Registry

By Mark Russinovich, 04/01/1997

Tour the Registry and find out how it organizes data, and check out a few handy Registry settings.

SMS Tuning Tips

By Brady Richardson, 04/01/1997

Pick up some tips for properly tuning Systems Management Server's performance.

NT News Network

By Tim Daniels, 04/01/1997

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.

An Interview with Eric Frash

By Tom Greer, 04/01/1997

Eric Frash, Eli Lilly and Company's NT systems analyst, gives his thoughts on implementing RoboMon NT.

PerfMan 1.1

By James Michael Stewart, 04/01/1997

PerfMan 1.1 from The Information Systems Manager is an extensive toolkit for monitoring every aspect of an enterprise network.

Further Explorations of the NT System Policy Editor

By Sean Daily, 04/01/1997

Take advantage of this multipurpose application that can serve as an alternative to NT Registry editors, as a Registry editor for remote workstations, and as a centralized control ...

A New Ticket for Mac Transfers

By John Enck, 04/01/1997

Provide Mac media interoperabilityand translate graphic files into different graphic formats with Digital Instrumentation Technology's TransferPro.

Internet FastFind

By Alex Pournelle, 04/01/1997

Symantec's Internet FastFind is a filter for the information ocean.

Troubleshooting NT Boot Failures

By Mark Minasi, 04/01/1997

Understand the text part of an NT boot to avoid boot problems with both NT Workstation and NT Server.

13 Tips for Optimizing Internet Information Server

By Bill McLaren, 04/01/1997

Discover how you can optimize the performance of Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) Web server.

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Smoothes the Rough Edges

By Tony Redmond, 04/01/1997

Exchange 5.0 seamlessly integrates many Internet protocols, and upgrading to this release won't be a headache.

Wildcat! Interactive Net Server

By Alex Pournelle, 04/01/1997

Mustang Software's Wildcat! Interactive Net Server is a bulletin board system that has bridged to the Internet.

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0

By T.J. Harty, 04/01/1997

Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe gives Web masters who use other Microsoft development software several Web tools, such as Deploy, Check Hyperlinks, and Site Map, for managing their ...


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