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[Focus]

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7 Tips to Optimize SMS
Optimize SMS components, including SP3, SQL Server, software distribution function, history files, inventory function, RAS clients, and SMS Administrator machines.
 — Stephen Garwood


Optimizing IIS for Peak Performance
Proper use of variables and ActiveX components in your Web applications and IIS 4.0's built-in performance tuning tools can help you get the most from your Web presence.
 — Ken Spencer


Optimizing Microsoft Transaction Server
Tips for preventing MTS from overburdening your network.
 — Charles Caison


Optimizing NT RAS
Configure the RAS/DUN service and tweak TCP/IP settings to increase the speed and reliability of RAS sessions.
 — Sean Daily


Tuning Your Database with SQL Trace
Do you want your SQL Server to run faster? Use these tips for profiling the peformance of your data-access applications.
 — Brian Moran

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[Feature]

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Get Connected
Microsoft's ILS helps users with dynamic IP addresses track down one another.
 — Douglas Toombs


Maintaining Exchange's Information Store
The database structure in Exchange is unique, and the databases can't function optimally unless they receive regular attention. Here's how to give the Information Store's databases the care that will keep them in top form.
 — Tony Redmond


Multiple UNC Provider: NT's Traffic Cop
In mixed NT and NetWare networks, this traffic cop brings network traffic to a screeching halt. Here are three methods to keep traffic flowing.
 — Craig Zacker


Package Command Manager Service
SMS SP2 greatly improves the PCM service. Now you can distribute applications to user desktops without user interaction or intervention.
 — Tom Amrhein


Reader to Reader - May 1998
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
 — Readers


Troubleshooting Windows NT System Configuration
Learn how to alter your Windows NT system configuration to make tasks easier.
 — John Savill


Understanding and Using LoadSim 5.0: Part 4
In this final installment, you'll use LoadSim to run tests and interpret the results.
 — Greg Todd

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[Reader Challenge]

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User and Password Problems

 — Kathy Ivens

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[Editorial]

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Windows Everywhere

 — Mark Smith

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[Internals]

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Windows NT Security, Part 1
Gain basic knowledge of NT security policies and procedures and make the right choices to protect your system.
 — Mark Russinovich

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[Product Reviews]

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FINAL 6.0

 — Michael P. Deignan


Octel Unified Messenger: Access Voicemail and Email From One User Interface

 — Brian Gallagher


Open View ManageX

 — Mark Joseph Edwards


surfCONTROL Scout 1.7

 — Mark Joseph Edwards


SynCrypt 1.1

 — John Green

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[Lab Notes]

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The Last Word on ISDN--Maybe
One Lab guy explores reader observations and suggested alternatives in his continued plight with an ISDN line.
 — John Enck

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[Inside Out]

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Getting the Mail
Successful transmission of a message across the Internet requires cooperation among different protocols on several machines. Here's how POP3 makes email work.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Getting Started with NT]

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Performance Monitor and Networks
User Performance Monitor to analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize your network.
 — Michael D. Reilly

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[Scripting Solutions]

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Commanding NT's Command Line
Perl's powerful text processing capabilities can put you back in control of NT's command line.
 — Bob Wells

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[SQL Server Savvy]

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Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Find out about email routing agents, triggers, FOREIGN KEY references, @@microsoftversion, hidden objects in EM, ODBC 3.5 connection pooling, suspect databases, transaction batching, tempdb, and SMP optimization.
 — Brian Moran , et al.

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[This Old Resource Kit]

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AddUsers
Here's a tool for quick and easy management of many users.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Here's information about using clone versus standard servers, assigning users without user Manager, and using the error checking tools in Disk Administrator.
 — Bob Chronister

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[News Analysis]

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NT News Analysis
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.
 — Craig Barth

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[NT Europe]

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Tecmar ETS420C Travan NS8

 — Jonathan Cragle

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[Lab Feature]

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Alpha Workstation Explosion
The 533MHx NT Alpha workstation reviews continue with an examination of three systems.
 — Brian Gallagher


Jasmine: Objects @ Work
This ODBMS product provides an application development environment for building dynamic client/server and Internet applications.
 — Karen Watterson


SQL Server 8-Way Scalability
The Lab tests SQL Server on four-and eight-processor systems.
 — Carlos Bernal


Thin Clients for Thick Applications
The Lab's ongoing testing of corporate desktop systems concludes with a look at three products and some thoughts on what the future holds for thin-client technology.
 — John Enck