Windows NT Magazine

Dr. Bob answers your WinNT questions: will Windows 2000 handle unattended installations; disabling creation of My Briefcase; troubleshooting modem installations; explain DHCP; and simplifying the addtion of machine accounts to a domain.

Dr. Bob answers WinNT questions: Y2K and WinNT; disabling pop-up messages; setting up Exchange Server to interact with ISP; is NetBIOS protocol in Windows 2000; mainframe vs. client/server; reasons to upgrade; viewing protected Registry hives; and setting up a DRAS connector in Exchange Server that uses at PPTP/VPN connection.

Dr. Bob answers your WinNT questions: giving users access to IIS accounts; running an unattended installation of SP4; why NT limits partitions to 8GB; can default Windows root directory names be changed; and setting up WinNT to maintain active client s' network connections.

Article from Windows NT Magazine. Create one file and copy a few others, and you'll be ready for a DNS server failure.

This article gives you a road map to navigate through the growing maze of information about running NT on Alpha. It outlines basic information categories, names the most helpful resources, and tells you where to find them.

Although CT systems were first primarily used for voice mail and dial-up games, companies are now using them for more sophisticated applications. Several key trends are driving the creative forces behind CT product development.

this glossary contains terminology used in computer telephony.

This article concludes an ongoing investigation of fax server products with a look at some additional software products and a review of a combined hardware and software fax server.

The Windows NT Magazine Lab compare fibre channel and SCSI interfaces.

For firms that can't afford or justify having a modem and phone line on every desktop, I offer a simple solution: SpartaCom Asynchronous Port Sharing (SAPS).

In this article, I'll show you a network design that can increase network speeds. In order to design networks that install easily, work fast, reduce costs, and increase reliability, avoid subnets and reduce the number of routers.

This article looks at the Windows NT backup program, considers some alternatives, and discusses factors that might influence your choice of backup strategy.

This article describes a couple of resource kit tools that let you write more powerful batch files.

This article tells how the Registry's on-disk files are organized; applications and other OS components read and change Registry keys and values; and how the Registry enables recovery, even if the system crashes while it's being modified.

Dr. Bob discusses static electricity perils, Win9x DUN problems, the Microsoft browser service, hard disk upgrade, local variables for Accpac, unresponsive Access 97 database, and a Disk Administrator error message.

You can use this article's three logon scripts and a couple of utilities from Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit to eliminate most of the migration's complexity. (Windows NT Magazine)

Tips include error checking using Disk Administrator, understanding what a device is to Windows NT, changing the name of frozen objects on the desktop, and differences between User Mode and Kernel Mode.

Tips include assigning domain users to the local administrators group during an unattended setup and retaining Windows NT 4.0 settings when rebooting a computer with an ASUS Motherboard.

The page contains various Windows NT tips including cloning a PDC to Create a BDC; differences between Windows NT and Windows 9X; the future of ISDN devices; connecting to the Network with Digital HiNote Ultra 2000; and browser election in Windows NT.

This article introduces methods you can employ to assess and augment the performance of your NTFS. (Windows NT Magazine)

How to work with crucial NT tools and win at TCO.

Use the following tips and techniques to properly segment your network and maximize the benefits of performance tuning your systems.

Dr. Bob discusses Service Pack 4, Small Business Server implementation and Window NT's boot process.

To diagnose problems or test new applications on a complex network, you need to simulate the network-- use a simulator to build a software model of key network elements and test how well the model functions with various traffic loads or network designs.

This article will help you secure specific areas of your NT systems and find additional areas that need further configuration to strengthen security.

This article shows you how to maximize the performance of your extra disk capacity when implementing NT disk subsystems and RAID arrays, regardless of any vendor-specific hardware tweaks.

Several tools and practices can help you proactively manage WINS and DHCP within an NT 4.0 enterprise. (Windows NT Magazine)