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If you decide that you want to convert your NetWare file servers to Windows NT, Microsoft provides a migration tool called Migration Tool for NetWare that allows you to migrate your NetWare users, groups, data, and security to an NT domain controller. In this chapter you will learn about

Contents: Organizing LAN Resources, Domains and Trust Relationships, Users and Groups, Built-In Groups and Users, What Happens When a Computer Joins a Domain, Testing Your Knowledge ...

This paper provides information on how the Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) make it easy to implement the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and describes how to use ADSI to access and manage products and other directory APIs.

This paper details the vision of Microsoft for integrating multiple directory services through a well defined, open set of interfaces: Microsoft Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI).

Learn about Quota Server, which includes a command-line utility to export and import quota and template definitions to and from a text file. There is an API via which quotas may be created, modified, and deleted under control of a program.

This chapter provides an overview of ntbackup, also known as the Tape Backup Utility (TBU).

This book is designed to help you use Microsoft Windows NT Server or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation to set up a computer system that is eligible for C2-level security certification.

Within the context of this white paper we will discuss the background of both MSCS and ClusterX. You will quickly see why ClusterX is becoming the de-facto Cluster Management Solution for MSCS, regardless of the size of the deployment.

This document explores the critical issues related to data storage in a network and will guide you through the many options available for storage, whether yours is a small-scale departmental LAN or a massively large enterprisewide network.

Control should not only be considered a way to prevent misuse, it should also be considered a tool for creating both a suitable and safe working environment. This chapter shows you how.

Learn about the Microsoft distributed COM (DCOM) that extends the Component Object Model (COM) to support communication among objects on different computers, on a LAN, a WAN, or even the Internet.

Topics covered are: Demand Dial routing process and security, creating user accounts, routing protocols, IPX connections, and troubleshooting.

Chapter 10 from Professional NT Services, published by Wrox Press. This chapter provides a number of different techniques that you can use to work around problems, and focuses on some more general issues that can help to keep you out of trouble in the first place.

In this article, we'll fill you in on how the emergency repair disk (ERD) does its job. We'll also show you how to create the disk, and we'll address a couple of considerations for using it.

This article covers procedures for testing scalability and performance of Windows NT Server file services, necessary hardware configuration for desired customer results, and key tuning parameters used for optimal file server performance.

This chapter describes how to install, uninstall, configure, and test the Microsoft Windows SNMP service, and how the SNMP service works with the Win32 and SNMP APIs.

This document describes how to use Microsoft Certificate Server version 1.0 and certification authority hierarchies with Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5 Service Pack 1.

These rules of thumb can immediately improve the performance of your NT Server.

Wherever disk resources are located, it's the job of a system administrator to manage them. The tools and techniques you use to manage file systems and drives are discussed in this chapter.

What you need to know to manage and monitor your network: utilities and tools you need, plus a discussion of the SNMP manageable agent included with WindowsNT.

The documentation currently available from Microsoft on implementing TCP/IP in a Windows environment is largely insufficient, as are the available third-party materials. This leaves a large information deficit for the readers to fill in for themselves, especially at the high-end of the market.

This white paper provides an introduction to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), a kernel-level instrumentation technology for the Microsoft Windows platform.

Security is a serious part of any design discussion, a need this article addresses by outlining the necessary tasks for creating a security policy that ensures the reliability and availability of all systems and data on a Windows NT external network.

Topics on this Page: Characteristics of a Secure SystemITSEC and Beyond, Real World Security Problems, Windows NTBuilt to be Secure, Installing and Configuring an ITSEC Compliant System, Setting up the Network with Windows NT, References ...

This chapter explains some basic, but essential concepts of network traffic generated by Microsoft Windows NT Server networking services, providing a framework for analyzing, optimizing, and predicting traffic.

Microsoft has a large internal information infrastructure. This chapter discusses how it works and what flavors and levels of traffic cross it during a normal day.

This chapter explores network capacity, offering strategies and best practices that show how to assess its current characteristics and potential, and how to look ahead to its changes and limitations as the network grows.

This chapter shows how to reduce WAN costs associated with Windows NT networking traffic and reviews ways to optimize the NetLogon service, Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS) name resolution and browsing, printer browsing, and more.

To reduce communication costs with Windows NT, learn to configure some system services for dial-on-demand configuration to ensure minimizing unnecessary connection—a seemingly minor problem that can become significant in large networks.

Not much has been written about how to implement network services such as WINS and the Internet's DNS together while designing an enterprise wide area network (WAN). This chapter is designed to fill the gap.

This chapter helps you elevate performance monitoring to a different level, using it to anticipate need instead of resolving immediate problems. It also examines small business issues and provides tips and tricks to enhance and make full use of performance monitoring.

Knowing how the disk subsystem works makes it easier to detect where bottlenecks are, allowing you to tune and size your NT Server solution accordingly.

An appendix covering Processor, Memory, Disk, and Network Performance Counters.

Learn about the RADIUS protocol to authorize dial-up network users, and compulsory tunneling, where the tunnel is created automatically without any action from the user and, without allowing the user any choice in the matter.

This chapter examines the Hardware Profiles and User Profiles tabs of the System applet, as well as System policies and the System Policy Editor.

This guide provides information and procedures for implementing Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Profiles and Policies on client workstations and servers.

This chapter describes the network protocols used by RAS, and how to install, configure, and start the RAS services.

This document provides installation instructions and a brief overview on routing and assumes that the reader has a basic understanding of routing and dynamic routing protocols.

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to discuss the protocols that support the Internet, list the layers in the OSI and DoD networking models, and describe the TCP/IP suite of protocols.

This chapter will help you protect yourself from hackers by examining security weaknesses in TCP/IP.

Throw away your scientific calculator. From one of TechNet's members comes an easy way to build your first subnet table.

The chapter contains a detailed overview of the core architecture of the Terminal Server operating system.

In this article, we'll show you several techniques that you can use to make Windows NT run more efficiently. Best of all, these techniques work equally well on Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server.

Microsoft Windows NT Load Balancing Service (WLBS), a feature of Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition, provides load balancing and clustering for mission critical enterprise-class applications.

This page describes general Windows NT strategies for setting up a tape backup system on your network, and how to use the Backup program to perform backup and restoration operations.