Deploying Windows NT Server

This article explains the terminology, benefits, and costs of domain planning.

Learn how Microsoft launching of the first ATM LAN Emulation logo and compatibility testing program encourage third-party development of ATM interface products and enables customers to purchase ATM solutions with more confidence.

This checklist outlines the steps you should take to duplicate the C2-evaluated configuration of Windows NT Server 4.0.

This White Paper explains Microsoft's vision for enhancing Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition and the Microsoft BackOffice family through clustering to provide greater availability, scalability and manageability.

This article explains the different types of T1 options that can be used in a wide area network (WAN).

This white paper discusses how Network Operating Systems evolved within the past two decades. It also identifies the changes and the benefits behind an enterprise-wide NOS-based internetworking environment.

This paper provides a business overview of DCOM—the Distributed Component Object Model—a technology that enables software components to communicate directly with each other across networks, including the Internet and intranets.

This article explains what a large printing company found when it considered using Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) to provide server failover and increased system availability.

This page links to articles about deploying Microsoft Windows NT Server, including information about deployment guidelines; researching product specs; assessing compatibility; deployment options; automated deployment; and configure specific features.

This table shows how organizations that maintain a dial-on-demand network can optimize Microsoft Windows NT Server configuration to reduce the number of connections and thus reduce telecommunication costs.

This paper provides an overview of the Domain Name System (DNS) and how it can be implemented using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.

In this article, we'll describe how to keep your hardware compatability list information up-to-the-minute and detail some important information you can garner from the list.

This document discusses tools, technologies, and operational practices you can use to improve the reliability and availability of computers, networks, and application systems.

Chapter 10 from MCSE Training Guide: TCP/IP, Second Edition, published by New Riders Publishing.

This chapter will give you the ins and outs of IP routing.

This chapter covers installing DNS service, configuring the DNS server, and creating virtual servers.

This chapter explains the benefits of DNS and WINS integration -- and how to establish and test WINS lookups through a DNS server, establish reverse lookups, and provide multihomed resolutions through DNS and WINS-registered computers.

This white paper examines a real network for a fictitious international company called “Terra Flora, Incorporated” and shows how to implement a plan to bring diverse information systems together in a way consistent with business operations and objectives.

In this document: Windows NT 4.0 with RRAS and IPX Routing, IPX Packet Filtering, RIP for IPX, SAP for IPX, and NetBIOS Broadcasts.

Set up, manage, and run your Windows NT system in a lights-out environment.

This chapter describes the various tasks in administering MSCS.

This paper provides a high-level overview of the processes involved in writing well-behaved cluster applications for MSCS.

This article discusses the challenges of application integration and describes the benefits offered by message queuing middleware (MQM) products such as Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ).

This article discusses the challenges building distributed applications and describes the benefits offered by message queuing middleware (MQM) products such as Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ).

This article applies the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Process and Team Models to information technology infrastructure implementation projects. It also incorporates a set of industry-founded best practices.

This page lists the contributors to a book dedicated to creating self-sufficient network administrators.

This article describes network, data, applications, and management interoperability between Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 and the NetWare, UNIX, and IBM network operating systems.

This paper describes a framework for planning, building, developing, and deploying automated system upgrades in a complex business environment.

This paper outlines the infrastructure technologies, procedural guidelines, and service and support practices that customers should use to deploy reliable systems with Microsoft Windows NT Server.

This white paper explains the architecture and design of the new Windows 2000 serial driver model, and assists the driver writer in determining which changes need to be made to a serial device driver so that it can migrate from Windows NT 4.0 to 2000.

This paper describes some of the key characteristics and capabilities of Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 in supporting very large single or multiple master domains in the corporate environment.

This paper provides information on diagnosing and resolving non-local logon problems.

This white paper outlines the steps necessary to set up a new cluster for use with the Windows NT Option Pack (NTOP) and provides instructions on how to install the Windows NT Option Pack on a cluster.

This guide contains a document roadmap, installation considerations, enabling 4 GB RAM tuning, clustering Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ) and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), known problems and support information.

This White Paper highlights how committed Microsoft and industry partners are to Microsoft Windows NT and UNIX interoperability.

This white paper talks about various security issues with respect to configuring all Windows NT version 4.0 OS products for a highly secure computing environment.

This article lists the recommended sequences for installing and configuring applications on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 with Service Pack 4 (SP4) or later.

This chapter walks you through the setting up of two name servers for a fictitious domain.

Windows NT Services for UNIX (SFU) provides a comprehensive set of additional features to Windows NT that allow for greater interoperability with existing UNIX servers in the enterprise.

Command shell scripting: What it is, what it does, and how to use it.

In this document: Windows NT 4.0 with RRAS and IP Routing, RIP for IP, OSPF, DHCP Relay Agent, IP Packet Filtering, and ICMP Router Discovery.

As a network professional, you should understand the important uses of virtual private networking for your organization and the underlying technologies that make it work.

This white paper describes the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) services that Microsoft and other vendors provide in the Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 operating systems.

This document is intended as a general outline of deployment scenarios for the IP load balancing feature of Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition, the Windows NT Load Balancing Service (WLBS)....

This article is designed to be a Remote Access Service X.25 reference that addresses common network questions related to all versions of RAS current at the time of writing (March 1997).