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This month, Windows NT Magazine provides information about how to make your organization more scalable. You’ll learn about how Profusion’s architecture helps NT scale to 8-way systems. We’ll fill you in on Microsoft’s scalability enhancements for memory, storage subsystems, SMP, and directory services in Windows 2000 (Win2K). And while we’re on that track, we’ll also update you on enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. We’ll end our scalability discussion with a look at how a Boston-based medical group improved the accessibility and organization of its mission-critical data.


Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions

By Bob Chronister, 10/05/1999

Learn about Norton Speed Disk, SCSI CD-ROM device availability, networking on NT 4.0 SP4, FC-AL, automatic NT backup, and more.

Netdom 2000

By Mark Minasi, 10/05/1999

Although Win2K dosen't include a domain-consolidation tool, this Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit tool lets you consolidate an NT 4.0 resource domain into a Win2K domain.

Directing IPX Broadcast Traffic

By Sean Daily, 10/05/1999

Discover the Registry values you can modify to affect broadcast forwarding behavior and resolve common IPX-based RAS problems.

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server

By Karen Watterson, 10/05/1999

Discover how to send large email messages via SQL Mail, read system sp code, and make Enterprise Edition use more memory, and learn about SQL Server 7.0's sysperfinfo table, SQL ...

Reader-Submitted Desktop Tips

By Michael Otey, 10/05/1999

Readers respond with more productive tips.

Thumbs-Up or Thumbs-Down?

By Michael D. Reilly, 10/05/1999

The author rates several NT-related companies, products, and resources.

A Root of Your Own

By Mark Minasi, 10/05/1999

To build an intranet that is completely disconnected from the Internet, you need to build a private DNS root.

Microsoft Exchange Server Product Add-ons

By John Green, 10/04/1999

View a list of products that work with Exchange Server.

DiskAdvisor 4.0

By Oswald Forster, 10/04/1999

A reporting tool that makes monitoring disk usage easy.

NetInstall 4.2

By Marty Scher, 10/04/1999

A software distribution application for Windows platforms.

Intellisync Anywhere

By David Sapery, 10/04/1999

Synchronize your PalmPilot data from any desktop in your enterprise.

Smart-UPS 1400

By Mark Weitz, 10/04/1999

Keep your server running when your power shuts down.

OnStream SC50 Internal SCSI

By David Chernicoff, 10/04/1999

An affordable backup solution for SOHO.

Windows Media Training Server

By David Chernicoff, 10/04/1999

Microsoft and Compaq team up to offer a training solution.

Electronic Mail Standards

By John Green, 10/04/1999

Learn about email standards and current email protocols.

SMTP Server Roundup

By John Green, 10/04/1999

The Lab reviews six SMTP mail servers that are suitable for small to mid-sized companies.

Kernel Slander

By Jonathan Cragle, 10/04/1999

The Lab Guys are looking forward to discovering whether Intel's Profusion chipset will let the NT kernel off the hook in the scalability debate.

NT Spawns Cluster Products

By Barrie Sosinsky, 10/04/1999

Learn about the cluster products that other vendors offer.

Standard I/O: Next-Generation Server Bus Standards Emerge

By Barrie Sosinsky, 10/04/1999

Advanced PC servers require a new host bus standard for high throughput. The I/O groups proposing new standards have agreed on the next-generation server bus standard: Standard ...

NT Clusters

By Barrie Sosinsky, 10/04/1999

Microsoft, IBM, and Novell are making major advances in NT clustering. Learn about the technology behind these advances.

Inside Win2K Scalability Enhancements, Part 1

By Mark Russinovich, 10/04/1999

Microsoft has added new features and enhancements to Win2K that make this OS more scalable than NT.

Keeping Disasters Away

By Mark Minasi, 10/04/1999

Mark discusses a recent Microsoft white paper that explains how to achieve high reliability and availability.

Friend or Foe?

By David Chernicoff, 10/04/1999

Good communication can enhance the work relationships of IT staff and end users.

The NT Community Is Alive and Well

By Mark Smith, 10/04/1999

Mark Smith reminds us that the NT community is about technology, not personalities.

Reader Challenge

By Kathy Ivens, 10/04/1999

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.

IIS 5.0's New Security Features

By Ken Spencer, 10/04/1999

Find out how to put IIS 5.0's new security features to work with Win2K.

Platinum Storage Groups

By Tony Redmond, 10/04/1999

To enhance Exchange Server's scalibility, Microsoft splits the Information Store in Platinum. Here's how to get the most out of your Exchange Server implementation.

How Large Will the Store Be?

By Tony Redmond, 10/04/1999

Here's how to estimate how large your private store will grow.

Control Directory Services with LDAP Proxy

By Archie Reed, 10/04/1999

Using LDAP proxy services, you can access company information and control directory services from the Internet, an extranet, and an intranet without the overhead of data ...

Recovering from NT Startup Failures, Part 2

By Sean Daily, 10/04/1999

Discover more tips, tricks, and tools you can use to minimize server downtime and increase your chances of quickly recovering from an NT boot failure.

The Regback Profile Quirk

By Sean Daily, 10/04/1999

Learn a method to handle this quirky resource kit utility.

Case Study: Mission-Critical Scalability

By Mark Smith, 10/04/1999

Boston-based Partners HeatlhCare System uses InterSystems' Cache post-relational database solution to improve the accessibility and organization of mission-critical data.

Scalability Enhancements in SQL Server 7.0

By Michael Otey, 10/04/1999

To push SQL Server up the enterprise ladder, Microsoft introduces introduces several scalability enhancements in version 7.0

Scalability Enhancements in Windows 2000

By Douglas Toombs, 10/04/1999

In Win2K, Microsoft has improved scalability in the areas of memory, storage subsystems, SMP, and directory services. Learn the benefits that these enhancements can provide for ...

Profusion Architecture

By Tao Zhou, 10/04/1999

The Profusion chipset is causing a stir in the SMP world. Learn how this technology helps NT scale to 8-way systems.

Reader to Reader - November 1999

By Readers, 10/01/1999

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

BOTOOL

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 09/27/1999

L0pht Heavy Industries' BOTOOL plugin for Back Orifice 2000 gives you a GUI-based interface for file and Registry management control.

Little BOPEEP

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 09/27/1999

See how Cult of the Dead Cow's BOPEEP plugin lets Back Orifice hijack the remote video display, and the console and keyboard.

Back Orifice 2000

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 09/27/1999

Learn whether Back Orifice 2000 is the remote-administration tool its creators say it is or just a Trojan horse waiting to attack your systems.


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