Appendix B - Minor Revisions To Existing Resource Kit Books

Future reprints of the four volumes in the Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit version 4.0 and the Microsoft Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit version 4.0 will contain slightly updated information. For those customers who have the first editions of these volumes, a list of the changes that will be made when we reprint these books follows. The online Help versions of these books on the Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit Supplement 1 CD already reflect these changes.

Windows NT Server Resource Kit

The following sections contain changes made to the Windows NT Server Resource Kit. There is a section addressing changes for each of the three books.

Windows NT Server Resource Guide

The following changes were made to the Windows NT Server Resource Guide:

Windows NT Server Networking Guide

The following changes were made to the Windows NT Server Networking Guide:

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Chapter 2, "Network Security and Domain Planning," page 109, in the first sentence under the heading "Using a RAS-connected BDC as a PDC," replace the words "dial-out-only RAS client" with the words "dial-up networking client." In the next sentence, replace the words "RAS-connected client" with the words "dial-up networking client."

Chapter 5, "Network Services: Enterprise Level"

•	Page 283, replace the heading in the middle of the page, "Windows 95 Clients to Windows NT servers," with the heading "Windows 95 Clients Authenticating to Windows NT Servers."
•	Page 298, in the next to last paragraph, change the reference "Windows NT Server Services for Macintosh" to "Windows NT Server Networking Supplement."
•	Page 335, in the first paragraph under the heading "Secure Access to Corporate Networks over the Internet," in the first line, delete the word "a" that precedes "PPTP" and the word "driver" that follows "PPTP." Also, in the first line, change the word "driver" that follows the word "WAN" to "protocol." The amended first line reads "A RAS client that has PPTP as its WAN protocol can access resources on a remote LAN by connecting to a Windows NT RAS server through the Internet." In the second line of the second paragraph, delete the word "The" that precedes the word "PPTP" and the word "driver" that follows "PPTP."
•	Page 337, under the heading "Installing PPTP," replace the first sentence with "You must have the PPTP protocol installed on the RAS servers and on the client or communications servers." Change Step 4 of the procedure "To Install PPTP" to "Select Point-to-Point Protocol, and then click Add." Change Step 8 to "RAS setup will start and add the PPTP protocol to RAS." Also, delete "DNS" from the sentence following the procedure.

Chapter 6, "TCP/IP Implementation Details"

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Page 396, delete the second bulleted item "Point-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)."

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Page 397, in the first paragraph, second line, replace "RAS clients" with "dial-up networking clients." In the second paragraph, fifth line, replace "RAS client" with "dial-up networking client." Replace the heading "RAS Clients" with "Dial-Up Clients." In the paragraph before the paragraph introducing the route table, last sentence, change "Windows NT workstation" to "computer running Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server."

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Chapter 8, "Managing Microsoft WINS Servers," page 465, remove the two paragraphs following Table 8.10.

Chapter 9, "Managing Microsoft DNS Servers"

•	Page 474, change the World Wide Web address for the Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC) from (http://www.internic.com) to (http://www.internic.net).
•	Page 477, add the following line to the end of the Note: "This is done to support BIND versions earlier than BIND version 4.94."
•	Page 483, change the heading "Cache Files" to "Cache File."
•	Page 486, fifth paragraph, replace "DSN" in the next to the last line of the paragraph with "DNS."
•	Page 491, first paragraph, last sentence, delete the word "Microsoft" preceding DHCP. In Step 5 of the procedure on that page, delete the sentence "Unresolved host name queries will then be passed to a DNS server."
•	Page 503, in the procedure "To clear the Microsoft DNS server statistics by using the dnsstat command," in Step 2, change "dnstat" to "dnsstat"
•	Page 504, change the heading near the bottom of the page from "Zone Wizard Did Not Correctly Autocreate SOA, NS or a Record" to "Zone Wizard Did Not Correctly Autocreate SOA, NS, or A Record."

Changes at Terra Flora

Terra Flora was introduced as a fictitious corporation to provide a case study in interoperating heterogeneous networks. Chapter 4, "Terra Flora: A Fictitious Case Study," provided the history of the corporation and presented the plan for interoperability. Chapter 5, "Network Services: Enterprise Level," provided the business justification for selecting Windows NT Server services to interoperate the heterogeneous networks. It also presented specific information on the installation and configuration of Enterprise level services that support the network itself and keep the corporation-wide information synchronized.

Once the networks were interoperating, the network administrators began evaluating the potential for network failure. That evaluation process produced changes to the Terra Flora network diagram. The changes to the network diagram are as follows:

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Chapter 5, "Network Services: Enterprise Level," page 222, in the figure, remove all the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) communication connections except the ISDN link from server EUNTS40DPT01. Replace the T1 communication line going into and out of the server NENTS40ENT02 with two fractional T1 communication lines. Replace the T1 communication line going into and out of server EUNTS40ENT01 with two fractional T1 communication lines. Replace the communication line going into server NENTS40DPT01 with two switched 56 communication lines.

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Appendix F, "Routers and Switches," page 826, in Figure F.3, remove all the ISDN communications connections. Add a backup router to network router CABNR10ENT02. Replace the T1 communication line, 1.54 megabits per second (Mbps), connecting the Enterprise router to Boston and on to New York with two fractional T1 communication lines, 128 kilobits per second (Kbps). Replace the switched 56 communications line, 56 Kbps, connecting the NENTS40DIV01 server to the Department with two switched 56 communication lines, 56 Kbps. Replace the T1 communication line, 1.54 Kbps, connecting the Enterprise router to Amsterdam and on to London with two fractional T1 communication lines, 64 Kbps.

Back cover, "Terra Flora Network Diagram"

•	Remove the ISDN connections to the servers NENTS40ENT01, EUNTS40ENT01, and NENTS40DPT02. Remove the ISDN connection to the network routers CABNR10ENT01 and CABNR10ENT02.
•	Replace the ISDN communication line from the network router CABNR10ENT01 to the Disaster Recovery Site with Backup Network Link, T1.
•	Add a backup router to the network router CABNR10ENT02.
•	Replace the T3 communication line, 45 Mbps, between the routers CABNR10ENT01 and CABNR10ENT02 with two T1 communication lines, 1.45 Mbps.
•	Replace the T1 communication line, 1.54 Mbps, connecting the Enterprise router CABNR10ENT02 to Boston and on to New York with two fractional T1 communication lines, 128 Kbps. Replace the New York leased line, 128 Kbps, with two fractional T1 communication lines, 128 Kbps.
•	Replace the switched 56 communications line, 56 Kbps, connecting the NENTS40DIV01 server to the NENTS40DPT01 server with two switched 56 communication lines, 56 Kbps.
•	Replace the T1 communication line, 1.54 Kbps, connecting the Enterprise router CABNR10ENT02 to Amsterdam and on to London with two fractional T1 communication lines, 64 Kbps.

Windows NT Server Internet Guide

The following changes were made t0 the Windows NT Server Internet Guide:

•	Chapter 1, "Internet Information Server Architecture," page 10, replace all references to Netmonitor with Network Monitor.
•	Chapter 7, "Internet Tools," pages 147 through 154. Delete the section on Mail Server (MailSrv). The MailSrv utility no longer ships with the Windows NT Server Resource Kit.

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Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit

The following section contains changes made to the Windows NT Workstation Resource Guide.

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Chapter 5, "Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Architecture," page 103, Figure 5.3 has been changed to clarify that the Microkernel and HAL are not Windows NT Executive Services.

Chapter 7, "Printing"

•	Page 216, second paragraph, second sentence, add the word "job" after the first instance of the word "print."
•	Page 230, under the heading "Separator Page Files," second paragraph, last sentence, change the word "four" to "three."

Chapter 9, "The Art of Performance Monitoring"

•	Page 287, in the first paragraph, replace "Ndvdm.exe" with "Ntvdm.exe"
•	Page 288, in the first paragraph, replace "experimental" with "investigative."

Chapter 10, "About Performance Monitor"

•	Page 293, in the first paragraph under the heading "New Counter Type," delete the phrase "but it displays a zero if the difference is negative."
•	Page 295, in the first paragraph under "Starting and Setting Up Performance Monitor," replace "boot" with "log on."
•	Page 300, in the last bulleted item, delete the sentence "If it is negative, they display a zero."
•	Page 304, delete the first bulleted item.
•	Page 305, first paragraph, delete "running Network Monitor Agent."
•	Page 314, the figure has been changed to clarify the Microkernel and HAL are not Windows NT Executive Services.
•	Page 338, change the cross-reference under "All values for my disks are zero, but I know they are active" from "For information about Diskperf, see "Enabling the Disk Counters" in Chapter 6" to "For information on Diskperf, see "Enabling the Disk Counters" in Chapter 14, "Detecting Disk Bottlenecks."

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Chapter 12, "Detecting Memory Bottlenecks," page 419, change the reference in the third bulleted item from "(as described in Chapter 7)" to "(as described in Chapter 15, "Detecting Cache Bottlenecks")."

Chapter 14, "Detecting Disk Bottlenecks"

•	Page 474, delete the diagram on the lower half of the page.
•	Page 486, in the upper left hand corner of the figure, replace "ide.log" with "100."
•	Page 520, first paragraph of the last bulleted item, replace the word "turbulence" with "interference." In the last sentence of that paragraph, add the word "length" after the word "cable." In the second paragraph of the last bulleted item, replace all instances of "serial" with "parallel" and all instances of "parallel" with "serial."

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Back cover, "Terra Flora Network Diagram," the figures have been changed to clarify that the Microkernel and HAL are not Windows NT Executive Services.

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