Planning to Install Windows NT Server

Discusses the rules that define the requirements of the hardware and software to allow one computer to communicate with another.

Discover the value of Directory Enabled Networking and examine the benefits it can provide to you. Find out how Intelligent Network can be more easily implemented with DEN, and get information about the future of DEN.

This article supplements the product's documentation, summarizing DNS concepts for novice administrators, and detailing the management utility's use for experienced administrators.

Through this paper, we intend to provide prospective customers with a good understanding of the elements of a fax server that should influence the purchase decision.

You might assume that placing a backup domain controller at remote locations will ensure that clients get validated locally. But here's the nitty-gritty on how Windows 95 and Windows NT really handle client logon.

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0 include a change in the implementation of Win32 graphics-related application programming interfaces.

This paper provides detailed information on how Active Directory supports the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). It will detail how Active Directory interoperates with products from other vendors that support LDAP.

This White Paper describes the changing architectures, the current approaches to managing capacity, and a new solution called active measurement that is particularly well-suited to capacity management in distributed systems.

This paper presents the challenges that confronted Nasdaq as it developed their Windows NT-based Surveillance Delivery Real-Time (SDR) System.

This chapter focuses on the key elements in choosing and maintaining the network model that's most appropriate for your organization, with an emphasis on long-term viability.

This paper explains the primary design goals of Windows NT—robustness, extensibility and maintainability—and explains how these attributes informed and directed each aspect of the initial system design and its development over the last several years.

This article is about building corporate intranet applications with efficient WAN performance in mind, and includes an inside view of some network analysis done by Microsoft's Information Technology Group.

This paper describes the features and components in Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 that enable broad interoperability with UNIX-based systems, data, and applications.

Remote Access Service (RAS) Thomas Spencer, Support Engineer Microsoft Enterprise Systems Support The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is a data link layer protocol which encapsulates other network layer protocols for transmission on synchronous and ...

Understanding PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is a network protocol that enables the secure transfer of data from a remote client to a private enterprise server by creating a virtual private network (VPN) across TCP/IP-based data networks. PPTP supports on-demand,

This case study explains why Prudential migrated to Windows NT Server, and in doing so, experienced extraordinary levels of reliability and versatility and has positioned itself for long-term savings in the total cost of ownership of its IT environment.

A baseline measurement of a secure operating system is the U.S. National Security Agency's criteria for a C2-level secure system. This page includes some of the most important requirements of C2-level security.

By deploying applications integrated with Active Directory in ways described in this white paper, companies are positioned to experience simplified management, enhanced network services, greater application functionality and lower TCO.

This paper provides a technical overview of the principles of unicast routing, the routing of packets with a unicast destination address. The principles in this paper apply to all commonly used internetworking protocols including IP, IPX, and AppleTalk.

WINS The Windows Internet Naming Service Architecture and Capacity Planning This paper describes the Microsoft Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) technology. WINS provides dynamic NetBIOS name to IP address registration and resolution.