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[Focus]

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NT Innovators
Recognizing the enterprise's important role in determining the success or failure of a product, the Windows NT Magazine editorial staff selected nine of the most innovative implementations of NT-related technology to solve real-life problems during 1996.
 — Warren Pickett


NT Stuff We Like
The editors of Windows NT Magazine pick some of their favorite NT products for 1996 and explain why these products deserve your attention.
 — Editors

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Clash of the Titans
Client/server accounting is gaining new dimensions as Windows NT continues to conquer the enterprise. NT's potential is encouraging vendors to focus on their resources on developing NT versions of their client/server accounting offerings.
 — Stewart McKie


Customizing Systems Management Server
When you're setting up an SMS inventory management system, Management Information Files (MIFs) let you define what you want to keep track of.
 — Mark Eddins


Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Scalability
Continuing our testing of NT's limits, the Windows NT Magazine Lab looks at SQL Server performance differences with cache, disks, operating systems, and CPU types.
 — Joel Sloss


SQL Server 6.5 Introduces Insert Row Locking
Take advantage of Microsoft's first step toward a more robust lock model with SQL Server 6.5's Insert Row Locking.
 — Brian Moran


What's Happening in Computer Telephony
Pick up on how NT provides a new, high-performance operating system standard for computer telephony system design.
 — Chris Bajorek


What's New in Windows NT 4.0 RAS
Remote Access Service (RAS) enhancements in Windows NT 4.0 make RAS more powerful than ever.
 — Sean Daily


Windows NT Authentication
Control user access to your Windows NT systems within and across domains: Set up different types of user and group accounts and learn how to create or modify these accounts in User Manager.
 — Paula Sharick

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[Reader to Reader]

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Reader to Reader - January 1997
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
 — Readers

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[Editorial]

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Windows NT 5.0
We are testing parts of NT 5.0 in the Lab and will let you know when we think the new functions are ready for a production environment.
 — Mark Smith

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[Product Reviews]

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Compaq ProLiant 5000
compaq PorLiant 5000 has Pentium Pro power and is the death of EISA.
 — Joel Sloss


NCR S40 Server
NCR S40 Server is a fast, reliable and upgradeable machine.
 — Dean Porter


NEC ProServa SH
NEC dumps RISC in favor of high-end Intel servers.
 — Joel Sloss

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[Lab Notes]

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All Work and No Play Makes the Lab Guys Cranky
Although Microsoft is putting a lot of effort into the DirectX APIs for multimedia and game development for both Windows 95 and NT 4.0, most of the latest third-party products in this area don't work on NT.
 — Dean Porter , et al.

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[Inside Out]

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NetBIOS Names and WINS
Your local WINS server can help you find other computers only if you help it.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Tricks & Traps
Explore password protection, automatic termination, SCSI chain connections, questions about Windows NT, and color scanners
 — Bob Chronister

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[NT Europe]

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NT Europe
Sometines the stability of some software make one want to break out in a cold sweat.
 — Jon Honeyball

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[News]

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NT News Network
This department focuses on what's new in operating systems, hardware, software, support, scalability, the enterprise and Windows NT's take on the trends in the marketplace.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Interoperability]

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Windows NT and UNIX Integration
Examine the three keys to UNIX and NT coexistence, and browse a list of some third-party products that demonstrate the industry's interest in moving NT into UNIX environments.
 — John Enck

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[VB Solutions]

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Exporting Data From SQL Server
Build a custom application that lets you export SQL Server tables using SQL Server's Distributed Management Objects from Visual Basic.
 — Michael Otey

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[WebDev]

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Microsoft's Index Server
Give your users better access to the content on your Web site with Microsoft's Index Server.
 — T.J. Harty

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[New to NT]

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The Emergency Repair Disk
If you don't already have an Emergency Repair Disk for your Windows NT system, read this article and then make one.
 — Michael D. Reilly