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This month in Windows 2000 Magazine, we give you tips about how to orchestrate your network’s performance. You’ll read about how to measure and manage your Windows NT Workstation 4.0 application performance and discover useful tools that can help you with your performance problems. You’ll learn how you can employ a Web server load balancer to improve your Web site’s performance and availability. You’ll also read about Exchange 2000 Server’s improvements and how they effect performance.


BackOffice ERP & Beyond

By Tao Zhou, 03/10/2000

This supplement highlights business management applications that run on the Microsoft BackOffice platform. This .pdf file requires Adobe Acrobat. Visit Adobe to download the ...

Directory Junctions vs. Dfs

By Sean Daily, 03/08/2000

Comparison of Dfs Junction Points and NTFS Directory Junctions.

Ask the Doctor

By Bob Chronister, 03/08/2000

Learn about IE and Outlook password problems, RAS dialing, unresponsive NT installations, evaluation-version determination, IntelliPoint installation in Win2K, WINS client ...

Ending Errant Processes

By Mark Minasi, 03/08/2000

When Task Manager can’t end a process, bring out the Tlist and Kill commands.

WINS Weirdness Strikes Again

By Sean Daily, 03/08/2000

Beware this WINS-related bug that can foil your RAS clients’ name-resolution functionality.

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server

By Karen Watterson, 03/08/2000

Investigate how to install multiple instances of SQL Server, use the TOP statement with a local variable, use UDFs in SQL Server 2000, store extended properties, and more.

Resource Kit Batch File Commands

By Michael Otey, 03/08/2000

Check out the best of a rich selection of utilities that you can incorporate into your batch files.

Extensible Markup Language

By Bob Wells, 03/08/2000

Discover how the new XML-based Windows Script file provides an improved and powerful scripting framework.

Linux: The Bad News

By Mark Minasi, 03/08/2000

The most difficult part of using Linux is installing it, especially if you want to put it on a laptop.

Dual-Boot Blues

By John D. Ruley, 03/08/2000

You might need to run two Windows OSs until more hardware and software supports Win2K. Here’s how to set them up.

The Six Deadly Backup Sins

By Paul Robichaux, 03/08/2000

Learn how to avoid a disaster-recovery nightmare.

Uninterruptible Power Supplies

By Mark Weitz, 03/08/2000

Find out what you need to look for when you choose your next UPS--it might just save your network.

InoculateIT 4.5

By Jonathan Chau, 03/08/2000

Vaccinating your network.

Performance Gallery

By John Green, 03/08/2000

Simplify networkwide performance monitoring and routine reporting.

Blazer

By Mark Weitz, 03/08/2000

An easy way to add needed storage.

Evaluating Windows Terminals

By Christa Anderson, 03/08/2000

Some applications call for Windows terminals, but how do you evaluate them? This article explains and compares nine devices.

Wired for Management Standard

By Tom Iwanski, 03/08/2000

WfM specifications can help you save time and reduce costs.

Inside Storage Management, Part 2

By Mark Russinovich, 03/08/2000

Storage architecture in Win2K has changed dramatically from NT 4.0, supporting the creation of advanced volumes and dynamic growth of existing volumes without reboots.

The Y2K Bug Bites

By David Chernicoff, 03/08/2000

Not too many Y2K problems occurred, but the Y2K bug conjured up a rollover date that I hadn’t considered: January 8, 1601.

The Sun Also Writhes

By Barrie Sosinsky, 03/08/2000

Java development has worked reasonably well in the past without a standards group governing it. What is Sun's commitment to Java standardization?

SCO Does the Thin-Client/Server Dance

By Barrie Sosinsky, 03/08/2000

SCO creates an inroad to the thin-client/server marketplace with Tarantella.

Reader Challenge

By Kathy Ivens, 03/08/2000

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.

Welcome to Windows 2000

By Mark Smith, 03/08/2000

Mark Smith shares some reader comments about their discoveries in using Windows 2000 on the desktop.

What's New in Windows 2000 Directory Replication?

By L. J. Locher, 03/08/2000

A new and improved multiple-master scheme lets any domain controller receive directory changes and replicate them to other domain controllers.

Helpful Directory Terms

By L. J. Locher, 03/08/2000

A brief listing of terms to help you understand directory replication concepts.

NTFS5 vs. FAT32

By Sean Daily, 03/08/2000

Meet Win2K’s new file systems, learn about their features, and find out how and when to use NTFS5 and FAT32.

Fantastic File-System Utilities

By Sean Daily, 03/08/2000

Winternals Software’s FAT32 for Windows NT 4.0 and NTFS for Win98 are handy tools that you can use to level the file-system playing field for a system running multiple OSs.

Automatic NTFS5 Conversions: What You Need to Know

By Sean Daily, 03/08/2000

Windows 2000 (Win2K) automatically converts an NTFS volume that an earlier Windows NT version created to the NTFS 5.0 format, and this format conversion is a one-way operation.

15 Tips for Troubleshooting VPN Connections

By Paula Sharick, 03/08/2000

Troubleshooting a VPN is complex because the data travels through many links. Check out these troubleshooting tips tailored to specific VPN connection problems.

Important Client TCP/IP Settings

By Paula Sharick, 03/08/2000

To troubleshoot a VPN implementation, you need to understand how the four TCP/IP settings affect your network connection and browsing.

Interpreting the NT Security Log

By Randy Franklin Smith, 03/08/2000

To use the Security Log, you need to understand three of the most important categories of security events: logon and logoff, object access, and process tracking.

Exchange 2000 Performance Planning

By Pierre Bijaoui, 03/08/2000

Exchange 2000's architectural improvements have a profound effect on performance. As you begin planning your Exchange 2000 implementation, take these hardware configuration tips ...

Why is RAID 5 Slow on Writes?

By Pierre Bijaoui, 02/29/2000

How a write operation occurs on a RAID 5 volume.

Web Server Load Balancers

By Tao Zhou, 02/29/2000

Investigate how you can employ a Web server load balancer to improve your Web site's performance and availability.

Microsoft's Load-Balancing Services

By Tao Zhou, 02/29/2000

Explore Microsoft's Web server load-balancing solutions.

Performance Management Utilities

By Darren Mar-Elia, 02/29/2000

The Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Resource Kit provides several useful tools for managing NT Workstation performance.

Measuring and Managing Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Application Performance

By Darren Mar-Elia, 02/29/2000

Learn how to measure and manage your NT Workstation 4.0 performance, and discover useful tools that can help you with performance problems.

Moving Incoming Items to Folders

By Sue Mosher, 02/22/2000

Find out how to check for important incoming messages and move those messages from the Inbox to another folder.

Reader to Reader - April 2000

By Readers, 02/16/2000

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

Y2K: The Media Just Didn't Get It

By Mark Minasi, 02/16/2000

Mark suggests a way to make up for the once-in-a-lifetime celebration you missed out on because you spent New Year's Eve at the office.


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White Papers

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Essential Guides

Is your iSCSI "lossy"? The reality is that most off-the-shelf Ethernet hardware deployed for iSCSI can lose packets, resulting in slow performance or application downtime. Learn how to assess your current iSCSI infrastructure and engineer an advanced iSCSI SAN infrastructure.

Web Seminars

What's the best way to keep your network safe from malware? In this web seminar, security expert Greg Shields suggests an alternative method to the traditional blacklisting approach that is common with anti-virus and anti-malware solutions.

eLearning Series

We bring the experts direct to you to share their real-world perspective and expertise. During each event, three sessions stream in real time, so you can learn, ask questions, and get solutions.
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