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[Focus]

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10 Reasons to Migrate to Windows 2000 and 10 Reasons to Wait
Before you jump on the Win2K migration bandwagon, find out whether migration makes sense in your environment.
 — Sean Deuby


Integrating UNIX DNS with Windows 2000
Gain a better understanding of Win2K's DNS requirements and explore three UNIX DNS and Win2K integration options.
 — Tao Zhou


Migrating Domain Controllers to Windows 2000
Follow Microsoft's step-by-step guide to successfully migrate domain controllers to Win2K.
 — Douglas Toombs


Windows 2000 vs. NT Terminal Server Licensing
Explore how Terminal Services licencing works in Microsoft's first integrated terminal server product, learn how to set up licenses, and discover the logic behind the changes.
 — Christa Anderson

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[Feature]

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Extending Active Directory's GUI
The ADUC MMC snap-in updates NT's User Manager tool. Manage OUs, user accounts, computer accounts, groups, and volumes, and create more object classes to meet your business needs.
 — Alistair G. Lowe-Norris


Microsoft Windows NT Services for UNIX
Discover how SFU simplifies resource access, facilitates password synchronization, and eases administration in mixed NT and UNIX environments.
 — Jim Mohr


Protect Administrator Privileges
Understand Windows NT's weaknesses so that you can protect and monitor your administrator accounts.
 — Randy Franklin Smith


Published ICA Applications
This server-based computing solution opens many doors, particularly on your network. Here's how to configure your firewall to guard against intrusion.
 — David Carroll


Secure Channels in NT 4.0
Secure channels are important to trust relationships. Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot the secure channels in your domains.
 — L. J. Locher


Software Installation in Windows 2000
Win2K's software installation features provide portable, self-installing, self-upgrading applications.
 — Darren Mar-Elia


Windows 2000 Disk Management
Win2K's disk-management tool is easier to use than NT 4.0's, and it has some handy new features.
 — Christa Anderson


Windows 2000's Network Address Translation
Microsoft's implemetation of NAT provides the simplicity, flexibility, and low cost of the traditional Network Address Translator Internet standard. Microsoft has added more features to its flavor of NAT to make it easier to use.
 — Zubair Alexander

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[Reader Challenge]

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Reader Challenge
Solve this month's Windows NT problem and get the change to win $100 or a copy of one of the author's books about NT. Prior month's winner is announced at bottom of page.
 — Kathy Ivens

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[Reader to Reader]

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Reader To Reader - February 2000
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
 — Readers , et al.

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[Editorial]

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What's in a Name?
Even with a magazine name change, Mark Smith reaffirms Windows 2000 Magazine's commitment to covering Windows NT.
 — Mark Smith

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[Outlook VBA on Demand]

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Flagging Incoming Items
Learn how to duplicate Rules Wizard conditions and how to add a message flag to an incoming item.
 — Sue Mosher

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[En Garde]

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PC Revolution
Think you want a revolution? Mark explains why revolution isn't the most appropriate path for big PC changes.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Internals]

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Inside Windows Management Interface
WMI implements Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technology to offer an extensible data-collection and management facility that lets you manage local and remote systems composed of arbitrary components.
 — Mark Russinovich

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[Product Reviews]

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Grr! 1.20.b.19990915R
Protect your network.
 — Marty Scher


Aelita Enterprise Suite 2.04
Ease the pain of large-network administration.
 — Tom Henderson


NetXpress SL2000
Enticing the move to server-based computing.
 — Mark Weitz


NT Service Account Manager 2.04
Managing NT service accounts just got a lot easier.
 — John Green


Tivoli IT Director 2.1
Network management for small and midsized businesses.
 — Jonathan Cragle

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[Lab Notes]

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Navigating Win2K's Learning Curve
The Lab Guys see a rough time ahead for power users and systems administrators learning to use Win2K's user interface.
 — Lab Guys

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[Inside Out]

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Active Server Pages Takes the Bite out of Forms
Using Microsoft FrontPage to handle forms is a hassle. Mark suggests ASP as an alternative.
 — Mark Minasi

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[SQL Server Savvy]

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Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Karen and Brian explore topics including DTS gotchas, the DTS ScriptPkg utility, FoxPro and SQlL server UDF support, and OLAP Services FoodMart data.
 — Brian Moran , et al.

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[Watch Your RAS]

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Troubleshooting and logging RAS Connections
Employ several tricks to increase the amount of information that RAS provides and inprove its overall manageability.
 — Sean Daily

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[This Old Resource Kit]

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Srvany
This resource kit tool lets you run any program as a service. Mark explains how the tool works.
 — Mark Minasi

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[Tricks & Traps]

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Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions
Learn about disk-usage analysis. remote Exchange Server access, DSL and Proxy Server, and file-cache size manipulation.
 — Bob Chronister

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[News Analysis]

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CISCO Sees the Light
Cisco is buying into optical networking partially as a hedge against the increased competition with its line-of-business, but also because Cisco recognizes that high-speed data transfer over fiber will become a major business.
 — Barrie Sosinsky

Running the Numbers for Windows 2000's TCO
TCO is only one part of a two-part business decision to migrate to Windows 2000. A business also needs to look at the benefits.
 — Barrie Sosinsky

The Oraclei Appliance
When you buy the Oracle8i Appliance, you get Sun Solaris on an Intel server, an Oracle8i database, a Web server, and the tools to conduct browser-based OS management.
 — Barrie Sosinsky

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[TOP 10]

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PC Processors
A comparison of the best chips in today's CPU marketplace.
 — Michael Otey

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[Buyer's Guide]

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Network Attached Storage
If you think server-based storage is complicated, expensive, and time consuming, think again. Network Attached Storage (NAS) is here and available for most budgets.
 — Jonathan Cragle

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[Exchange & Outlook UPDATE: Exchange Server Perspectives]

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Speed Up Your Mail
Learn about WINS-to DNS conversion, the X.400 connector, a workaround to avoid Unicode gibberish, and factors in performance improvement.
 — Tom Henderson

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[Lab Comparative]

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Fax Servers Revisited
Looking for an enterprise-level fax server solution? We give you the goods on 11 software and 4 turnkey products to help you identify your options.
 — Michael P. Deignan

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[Windows 2000 Pro]

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Telnet Developments
microsoft significantly changed the Win2K Telnet inplementation between RC1 and RC2. Discover whether RC2's Telnet application is really better than the earlier application.
 — John D. Ruley

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[Exchange & Outlook Troubleshooter]

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Web-Enabling Exchange 2000
OWA 2000 responds to the increasing popularity of Web browsers and becomes an essential Exchange Server connectivity option.
 — Tony Redmond