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The number of business-critical applications and databases that run on Windows NT continues to grow, heightening the importance of systems management in NT environments. This month, Windows NT Magazine explores the expanding world of NT systems management with an overview of the history and nature of the total cost of ownership (TCO) trend, a guide to enterprise systems management tools, and a look at how Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0 and NT 5.0 will work together to support increasingly large and heterogeneous NT environments.


Windows NT Systems Management Roadmap

By Darren Mar-Elia, 07/01/1998

Learn about the enterprise systems management packages you can use for Windows NT.

Trusted Enterprise Manager

By Michael P. Deignan, 07/01/1998

Extend responsibility for your system to trusted users.

Managing Permissions for NT 5.0's Active Directory

By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 07/01/1998

Active Directory's powerful search capabilities might lead to management nightmares if you don't know how to hide objects from users' searches. Modifying objects' permissions is ...

NetRoad FireWALL 2.1

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 07/01/1998

Test drive this security software on your Windows NT or NetWare server.

SpaceGuard 4.1.0.11

By Michael P. Deignan, 07/01/1998

Monitor disk space with this solution.

IPC Mechanisms

By Zubair Alexander, 07/01/1998

You might not be familiar with the interprocess communications (IPC) mechanisms, but they are vital to a distributed computing network. Learn what these IPC mechanisms are and ...

A Quick Glance at SNA Server 4.0 Features

By Tao Zhou, 07/01/1998

SNA Server 4.0 provides a wide range of features in addition to fault tolerance. Here is a description of many of those features.

Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 1

By Tony Redmond, 07/01/1998

SP1 is finally out. S/MIME, message journaling, and other new features make it worth the wait.

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions

By Bob Chronister, 07/01/1998

Find out about using ERD Commander, creating a batch file to back up open files, defragmenting NT's pagefile.sys file, and controlling viruses with ease and efficiency.

Work Smarter, Not Harder

By Bob Wells, 07/01/1998

If your job never gets any easier, you need to be more efficient. Using scripts to automate tedious tasks can help do just that.

AIR ID

By Mark Joseph Edwards, 07/01/1998

Eliminate the need for passwords.

Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server

By Karen Watterson, 07/01/1998

Read tips about SQL Server's memory requirements, a bug in dumping databases, the ESCAPE option, clustered vs. non-clustered indexes, a fix for DBCC dbreindex space problems, ...

Reader to Reader - July 1998

By Readers, 07/01/1998

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

ER Disk 2.2

By Michael P. Deignan, 07/01/1998

Create ERDs over the network.

The OpenGL API: What Is It, and Why Should You Care?

By Brian Gallagher, 07/01/1998

Learn about OpenGLAPI and what it does.

Tech Stories from the Trenches

By Paula Sharick, 07/01/1998

Find out why defragmenting disks make sense and how one defragmentation tool improves performance.

Dual 333MHz Pentium Processors

By Brian Gallagher, 07/01/1998

One Lab guy discovers the world of 3-D on NT in this review of dual 333MHz Pentium II workstations. They're fast, and they process 3-D rendering and design calculations like ...

Using the SMTP Service with IIS 4.0

By Ken Spencer, 07/01/1998

IIS 4.0's SMTP Service lets you easily set up and receive email from users surfing your Web site.

Will You Trust Your Phones to NT?

By Mark Smith, 07/01/1998

Are you spending too much to upgrade your corporate phone mail system? Windows NT might be the solution for you.

Building Fault-Tolerant SNA Functionality

By Tao Zhou, 07/01/1998

Employ Microsoft's SNA Server as a gateway service that links your IP-based NT network to your mainframes and AS/400.

NT Server Security Checklist

By Sean Daily, 07/01/1998

Find out what you need to do to stay ahead of the onslaught of physical, network, and password security attacks on NT.

AppManager Suite

By Michael P. Deignan, 07/01/1998

Get a handle on BackOffice performance.

Inside Microsoft Terminal Server

By Mark Russinovich, 07/01/1998

Microsoft Terminal Server, formerly code-named Hydra, is due for release this month. Here's a sneak preview of Terminal Server features and functionality.

Windows NT Users and Groups

By Michael D. Reilly, 07/01/1998

Learn how to add new users, assign SIDs and usernames, and configure password and other options.

Phoenix Domain Reconfiguration Tool for Windows NT

By Michael P. Deignan, 07/01/1998

Reconfigure your domains without effort or worry.

Print Manager Plus 2.5

By Michael P. Deignan, 07/01/1998

Establish control over your print jobs.

What is WBEM?

By Greg Todd, 07/01/1998

In 1996, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Intel, and Microsoft sponsored the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative, an effort to provide a unifying ...

Get the Government Off Microsoft's Back­Completely

By Mark Minasi, 07/01/1998

How to end Bill Gates' conflict with federal regulators.

Just What Is TCO, Anyway?

By Mark Minasi, 07/01/1998

You've been hearing a lot about TCO lately, but do you really know what it is? Here's an examination of TCO: where it comes from, how to calculate it, and how important it can be ...

Reader Challenge

By Kathy Ivens, 07/01/1998

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.

Thin Client or Fat Head?

By John Enck, 07/01/1998

The Lab Guys ponder the complexity of thin client downloading.

Troubleshooting Windows NT User Configuration

By John Savill, 07/01/1998

Get answers to common questions about managing NT user accounts.

NT News Analysis

By Craig Barth, 07/01/1998

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.

DELPROF

By Mark Minasi, 07/01/1998

Delete roaming user profiles with ease.

Clustering Software for Your Network

By Jonathan Cragle, 07/01/1998

Need a clustering solution that doesn't require as much investment as MSCS? The Windows NT Magazine Lab reviews six MSCS competitors that might run on the systems you already ...

Using Microsoft Email Clients with Exchange Server

By Spyros Sakellariadis, 07/01/1998

Learn how to configure the Exchange, Outlook, and Outlook Express clients to use SMTP and POP3 to connect with Exchange Server 5.5.

Windows NT System Policies

By Darren Mar-Elia, 07/01/1998

System policies in NT 5.0 will be more powerful than those in NT 4.0. Here's how to efficiently implement this tool in your NT infrastructure.

Get Wired

By Mark Minasi, 07/01/1998

Before you connect your business to the Internet, consider using a proxy server.

AutoPilot P/SA

By Michael P. Deignan, 07/01/1998

Improve performance with this utility.

The Future of Systems Management

By Greg Todd, 07/01/1998

Microsoft is finally improving NT's systems management capabilities. Glimpse the future of management in SMS 2.0 and NT 5.0.


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