By Mark Minasi, 04/01/1998
Command Scheduler, SLEEP, and SOON improve the NT Schedule service.
By Greg Todd, 04/01/1998
You can follow LoadSim's default user profiles for your test or take advantage of the programs flexibility to customize test properties.
By Mark Russinovich, 04/01/1998
Complete your tour of NT's architecture with an indepth look at NT's Executive subsystems, Kernel, and HAL.
By Readers, 04/01/1998
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
By Tao Zhou, 04/01/1998
A brief history of the evolution of LDAP.
By Jonathan Cragle, 04/01/1998
SureSync, from Software Pursuits, can mirror or copy files between two or more locations to provide a robust file-transfer solution at a low cost.
By Craig Barth, 04/01/1998
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 Douglas Toombs, 04/01/1998
DNS's round-robin function is an easy and effective way to increase your Web server's functionality by distributing its load.
By Carlos Bernal, 04/01/1998
Northbridge NX801, from Axil Compute, is an easy-to-use, enterprise-level server that uses up to eight 200MHz Pentium Pro processors and 8GB of SDRAM.
By William Wong, 04/01/1998
Printer Accounting Server 1.1, from Software Metrics, is a network printer usage tracking system for NT that lets you access reports on user or group usage and control printing on ...
By John Enck, 04/01/1998
One Lab Guy tests two high-speed alternatives to ISDN connections and quickly learns that X2 and K56 technologies don't always reach 56Kbps.
By Clayton Johnson, 04/01/1998
One of the greatest challenges associated with Internet video is bandwidth use.
By Craig Zacker, 04/01/1998
Examine products that integrate the functionality of multiple directory services into one NT directory.
By Craig Zacker, 04/01/1998
NetVision's Synchronicity for NT typifies the replication-based metadirectory. Here's how the product works and why.
By William Wong, 04/01/1998
Novell's NDS for NT integrates NT domain user and group information into the NDS database to give you better directory performance and to simplify managing your heterogeneous ...
By John Savill, 04/01/1998
Find out which performance monitoring tools will give you the system information you need.
By Karen Watterson, 04/01/1998
Learn some tricks for using the identity property; copying a subset of data; removing replication settings; optimizing DBCC operations; and fine tuning DBCC PERFLOG, logins, and ...
By Michael P. Deignan, 04/01/1998
DOCS Open, from PC DOCS, is a collection of programs and utilities that gives you an infrastructure to store, locate, retrieve, and manage documents across your network and the ...
By Michael P. Deignan, 04/01/1998
OpentNT, from Softway Systems, creates an enhanced POSIX/UNIX subsystem within your NT system.
By Brian Gallagher, 04/01/1998
Digital Semiconductor's interpretive program FX!32 recompiles and optimizes Intel-native NT code for the Alpha platform.
By Sean Daily, 04/01/1998
Whether you use 16-bit applications occasionally
or daily, you can optimize NT's Win 16 on Win32 subsystems to get the most from your legacy software.
By Michael P. Deignan, 04/01/1998
Sidewinder 50 from Seagate Technology is a highspeed, high-capacity SCSI Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) backup unit that achieves impressive rates of data transfer.
By Michael P. Deignan, 04/01/1998
Hyena, from Adkins Resource, is a systems administration utility that lets you manage virtually every aspect of your NT environment.
By Ken Spencer, 04/01/1998
IIS 4.0 gives you the tools to manage your Web sites, applications, and entire servers, with an array of settings that you can customize to meet your needs.
By Karen Watterson, 04/01/1998
Each of the five major relational database management systems (RDBMS) vendors uses a different architecture for its universal servers.
By Clayton Johnson, 04/01/1998
A list of terms for internet video.
By Tony Redmond, 04/01/1998
In this first of a two-part examination of the Exchange Information Store, you'll learn how the Information Store is structured and how it processes transactions.
By Michael D. Reilly, 04/01/1998
Learn about the network protocols NT supports and decide which protocol will work best on your network.
By Craig Zacker, 04/01/1998
Hankering for a unified view of all the directories on your heterogeneous network? This solution offer full-featured metadirectory support and a robust directory service to help ...
By Tao Zhou, 04/01/1998
This general-purpose directory stores, publishes, and centrally manages user, group, and other network information in one directory on your network.
By Mark Minasi, 04/01/1998
SMTP underlies all email messages. Here are the basics of how SMTP works.
By Mark Smith, 04/01/1998
Conpaq's buying spree means increased competition foryour business. With Compaq as the largest supplier of NT systems and support, IBM and HP will compete heavily for your ...
By Carlos Bernal, 04/01/1998
Hardware and software in the "Windows NT Magazine" Lab's test environment.
By Michael P. Deignan, 04/01/1998
PerfectDisk NT, from Raxco Software, is NTFS and FAT file system defragmentation software for NT Server and NT Workstation systems.
By Michael P. Deignan, 04/01/1998
Hamilton C Shell, from Hamilton Laboratories, is a collection of UNIX programs and utilities that helps re-create your original UNIX working environment.
By Bob Chronister, 04/01/1998
Here are tips for protecting NT's Registry from accidental corruption, troubleshooting NT boot problems, and performing an unattended SP3 installation.
By Clayton Johnson, 04/01/1998
Differences between on-demand video content and live video content for the internet.
By Brian Gallagher, 04/01/1998
The Lab completes its coverage of NT backup solutions with guidelines for choosing the right backup software and a review of IBM's ADSM.
By Karen Watterson, 04/01/1998
Compare DB2 with other database management systems to see whether DB2 is right for your NT network.
By Michael P. Deignan, 04/01/1998
Argent Software's Argent Global Alert is a complete system that monitors performance, event logs, and service.
By Clayton Johnson, 04/01/1998
Roll 'em! Understand and overcome the challenges of transmitting videos over the Internet.
By Brian Gallagher, 04/01/1998
Discover what Alpha-powered NT workstations can do for you.
By Darren Mar-Elia, 04/01/1998
NT 5.0's application management features provide portable, self-installing, self-upgrading applications.
By Bob Wells, 04/01/1998
From simple logon scripts and ad hoc tools to data-driven automation, WSH offers NT systems administrators a helping hand.