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Disaster Prevention and Recovery

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This month in Windows 2000 Magazine, we help you recover from system disasters and give you tips about disaster prevention. We cover Windows 2000's built-in disaster-recovery tools and features that make system repair easier than before. We explain recovery procedures for common Win2K problems and list Win2K recovery resources and utilities. We show you how to carry your e-business onto the Internet safely and competitively with Redundant IP Routing. Finally, we explain what you need to know to pick the best storage solution for your environment using Ntbackup in Win2K or Windows NT. We provide a list of undocumented Ntbackup Registry keys, suggestions for using Win2K Backup Wizards, and information about a bug fix for using Ntbackup with Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5.


Using Ntbackup with Win2K and NT

By Todd O. Klindt, 06/19/2000

What you need to know to pick the best storage solution for your environment.

Ask the Doctor

By Sean Daily, 06/13/2000

Learn sbout NT's sneaky FAT16 conversion, BDC migration without reinstallation, duplicate SIDs, a DHCP problem on laptops, and CNAMEs on DNS servers.

The Service.vbs Script

By Mark Minasi, 06/13/2000

Take control of remote resources from the command line.

Win2K Pro on the Road, Part 2

By Sean Daily, 06/13/2000

Discover how to work around some of Win2K's RAS and DUN gotchas - and learn about a potentially costly bug.

Microsoft Management Console Snap-ins

By Michael Otey, 06/13/2000

Win2K's systems management MMC snap-ins let you create a customized management environment.

Windows Management Instrumentation: The Journey Begins

By Bob Wells, 06/13/2000

Jump into WMI scrpiting: Explore WMI's Common Information Model and learn how to use wbemtest.exe to determine WMI namespaces.

The Active Directory Migration Tool

By Mark Minasi, 06/13/2000

ADMT lets you incrementally set up an Active Directory and redo steps that don't go right the first time.

Key Recovery Console Commands

By John D. Ruley, 06/13/2000

Get the most out of Win2K Pro's new Recovery Console tool.

Mitigating Disaster

By Paul Robichaux, 06/13/2000

Your server has fallen, and it can't get up. Thank goodness you had a disaster-recovery plan.

Exchange 2000 Storage Exposed, Part 1

By Jerry Cochran, 06/13/2000

Dig into Exchange 2000 to find out how its database engine stores and recovers information.

Job Scheduling Software

By John Green, 06/13/2000

Find the Windows 2000- and Windows NT-based tools you need to automate tasks and make your job easier.

Mobile Essentials 2.5

By Tom Iwanski, 06/13/2000

Easily change your laptop's settings as you travel.

ServiceKeeper 1.4.10

By Oswald Forster, 06/13/2000

Improve your ability to install, remove, and schedule services.

UltraBac 5.5 Stand Alone Disaster Recovery for Windows NT

By Ed Roth, 06/13/2000

Streamline standalone backup and disaster recovery.

DiskXtender 4.2

By Ed Roth, 06/13/2000

Manage your media with robust HSM capabilities.

PerfectDisk 2000

By Michael Norian, 06/13/2000

Defragment your disk - even the Master File Table.

LogCaster 2.51

By Jonathan Chau, 06/13/2000

Give your network a sixth sense.

NTFSDOS Professional Edition 3.03

By Michael Otey, 06/13/2000

Access NTFS from MS-DOS.

Teradata 3.0.1 for Windows NT

By Michael Otey, 06/13/2000

NCR designed Teradata to provide enterprise-level scalability to NT data warehouses.

Time to Change Your Upgrade Paradigm

By Lab Guys, 06/13/2000

Put you upgrade where your eyes are- change your monitor.

Inside Win32 Services, Part 2

By Mark Russinovich, 06/13/2000

Win2K improves on NT 4.0's service startup and shutdown procedures.

Do Betas Work?

By Mark Minasi, 06/13/2000

Is beta testing really the best way to get the bugs out?

Stop Disaster in Its Tracks

By David Chernicoff, 06/13/2000

Take the necessary steps to ensure that your disaster recovery plan is the best one for your business.

IBM Hardens Its Servers

By Barrie Sosinsky, 06/13/2000

IBM hardens its Netfinity servers for Win2K to provide fault tolerance and make the servers attractive to Win2K enterprise customers.

Making Money from Migration Services

By Barrie Sosinsky, 06/13/2000

Win2K offers hardware and services vendors a market opportunity to provide migration services as part of large hardware deployments.

Application Center 2000

By Barrie Sosinsky, 06/13/2000

Application Center will offer and extend important Win2K functionality such as management, scalability, and availability.

Mag.net-izing Windows 2000/NT Solutions

By Mark Smith, 06/13/2000

Mark Smith highlights the best of the Windows 2000 Magazine Network--your IT answer portal.

Reader Challenge

By Kathy Ivens, 06/13/2000

Want to test your know-how? Solve this month's Windows NT problem and gather the accolades of your peers.

Indexing Service at Your Fingertips

By Ken Spencer, 06/13/2000

Employ Indexing Service to build catalogs that contain an index of file-system documents and their property information.

AD Sites, Part 2

By Sean Deuby, 06/12/2000

Learn about intrasite and intersite replication paths and site topologies, and create an AD site that works for you.

Navigating Name Resolution, Part 2

By Sean Daily, 06/12/2000

Overcome name-resolution problems and improve network client performance and stability.

Ntbackup Exchange Server 5.5 Bug Fix

By Paula Sharick, 06/08/2000

You need this fix if you want to use Win2K's Ntbackup to restore Exchange Server 5.5 Installation.

Putting the Win2K Backup Wizards to Work

By Paula Sharick, 06/08/2000

Two wizards make backing up and restoring files and drives easy.

Undocumented Ntbackup Registry Keys

By Todd O. Klindt, 06/08/2000

Learn about some useful undocumented Ntbackup Registry keys.

Build Redundant IP Routing

By Tao Zhou, 06/08/2000

Redundant IP routing helps you gain and maintain a competitive advantage in e-business.

Mastering the Recovery Console

By Sean Daily, 06/08/2000

In Win2K, Microsoft introduces several system-recovery features that make repairing an unbootable system easier than before.

Showing Contacts' Email Addresses

By Sue Mosher, 05/25/2000

Learn how to build a small application that lets you display a contact's email address instead of the contact's name.

Reader to Reader - July 2000

By Apostolos Fotakelis, 05/25/2000

Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows 2000 Magazine readers (including Microsoft).

Protecting the NT Security Log

By Randy Franklin Smith, 05/17/2000

Explore how to use the system events and policy change auditing categories to trip up intruders.


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