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[Focus]  Creating an Online Store Building a comprehensive, powerful, and cost-effective Web site so your business can conduct commerce over the Internet requires careful planning and foresight. — Debra B. Diehl Datacenter in Action Find out how Health e Connex and Cisco Systems are using Datacenter to run the enterprise. — Kathy Ivens Multilanguage Support in Windows 2000 Professional Take advantage of Win2K Pro's multilanguage features. — Zubair Alexander Securing Your Thin or Lean Client/Server Environment When deploying a thin or lean client/server Windows NT solution keep in mind the security implications of three technologies--remote console, API redirection, and client-side persistent caching. — Craig Barth Security UPDATE, June 5, 2002 Will Electronic Eavesdropping Become a M-o-o-t Point? Microsoft's Buffer-Overrun Problem: Fact or Fallacy? Microsoft Patches Critical Exchange Hole and new IE Update Blocks IFRAME in Outlook HTML Messages. All this and more in this months issue. — Various Authors Speedy Web Content Delivery with CDNs Attract and retain Internet customers by using CDNs to speed Web content delivery. — Tao Zhou Take It to the Limit NT's Response Probe helps you determine the performance of a server's hardware and software configuration. — Joe Rudich Terminal Services in NT 4.0 Domains Review Terminal Services basics and discover two common headaches for setting up Terminal Services in an NT 4.0 domain. — Christa Anderson Tools for the Control Freak Win2K's Terminal Services lets you perform not only server-based computing but also remote control of other Win2K servers. — Christa Anderson Windows 2000 Performance Tools Explore Win2K's enhanced performance tools and walk through some examples that show you how to capitalize on these new features. — Curt Aubley [Feature] Windows 2000 Magazine Salary Survey Find out what Windows 2000 Magazine's readers had to say about salaries, benefits, job characteristics, and more during a reader survey. — Barrie Sosinsky , et al. Windows 2000 Magazine Selects Best of Show Finalists for Microsoft Tech Ed 2001 Penton Technology Media has announced 40 finalists for the Windows 2000 Magazine Best of Show Awards for Microsoft Tech Ed 2001. Find out who's on the list. — Editors 10 Reasons to Buy Windows NT 5.0 — Jonathan Chau  6 Tips to Keep Exchange Server 2003 Humming As a server ages, it can become a lot less reliable. But you can prolong your Exchange Server’s life, and avoid nasty surprises, by following these common-sense maintenance tips. — Brien Posey A First Look at Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Take a tour through the new Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology. Get an overview of its microkernel architecture, learn how to install it, and get an early look at how it stacks up against the industry leader, VMware ESX Server. — Michael Otey Advanced Security in Exchange 2000, Part 1 Exchange 2000's updated Key Management Service offers expanded S/MIME capabilities. — Jan De Clercq Advanced Security in Exchange 2000, Part 2 Microsoft's messaging clients integrate with Advanced Security to support S/MIME security enhancements. — Jan De Clercq Advanced Security in Exchange 2000, Part 3 Discover the S/MIME enhancements and capabilities that Microsoft has added to Outlook 2000 Service Release 1a in an effort to keep your email more secure. — Jan De Clercq An "Unkludgy" Way to Back Up Files A reader created a batch file to back up a database. However, the batch file was a kludge, so he wanted to write a better script. Curious as to how a scripting pro would go about it, he contacted Scripting Pro VIP. The result is BackupFile.vbs. — Karen Bemowski , et al. Are You Ready? Is Microsoft Ready? Are you ready for the year 2000 (Y2K)? Paula Sharick exposes the latest tricks to prepare your software for the new millennium. — Paula Sharick Athlon! John Ruley discusses his experiences purchasing and setting up a 1GHz Athlon system from a local dealer and highlights the pluses and minuses. — John D. Ruley Avoid Windows Server 2008 Integration Challenges Before you implement Windows Server 2008, benefit from an expert’s lessons-learned about integration with AD, compatibility with Microsoft server applications, virtualization, backup, and antivirus and antispyware. — Alan Sugano Backup and Recovery Basics Every business needs a comprehensive data protection plan. Here's how to begin creating one for your company. — David Chernicoff Chat with Daragh Morrissey Talk with Daragh Morrissey about clustering with Exchange. — Daragh Morrissey Clean Up Your Shortcut Names If you want to change the verbose names Windows automatically uses for new shortcuts, you can modify a registry setting to make new shortcut names cleaner and use a simple script to clean up existing shortcut names. — Alex K. Angelopoulos Collaborate Using Office OneNote 2007 Use OneNote 2007 to drive team participation and enhance communication by creating a shared digital notebook to capture ideas and share information. — Will Kelly Collecting and Analyzing Event and System Logs Use EventCombMT to collect event and system logs from multiple remote locations. — John Howie Coming Soon ... Windows & .NET Magazine Will Become Windows IT Pro! Here's some exciting and important changes at Windows & .NET Magazine. Effective with our September issue, we will relaunch as Windows IT Pro. — Publisher Computerized Voting Can Work After challenging readers to devise a design for implementing a computerized voting system, Kathy Ivens reveals the contest winners and explains their approach. — Kathy Ivens Configuring Exchange Server 2007 UM Watch step by step as J. Peter Bruzzese shows you how to configure your Exchange Server 2007 environment for unified messaging (UM). — J. Peter Bruzzese Configuring UDDI Services The UDDI protocol provides an infrastructure that lets you describe and discover Web services. — Tim McCarthy Creating a Storage Management Policy, Part 1 Ongoing storage management directly affects users. Users need a clear set of guidelines defining the rules and responsibilities for storage management. Learn how to develop a clear set of guidelines defining your company's storage management policy. — Editors Creating a Storage Management Policy, Part 2 In Part 1 of this article you learned how to develop a clear set of guidelines defining your company's storage management policy. Part 2 completes the tips for helping users buy into the rules and responsibilities for ongoing storage management. — Editors Creating Applications with ADSI and VB ADSI is a powerful interface with which you can access many NT features. Here is nine steps and an example of how you can use ADSI and VB to create applications — Ken Spencer Creating SQL Server Databases If database administration has been recently added to your list of duties, you'll appreciate these step-by-step instructions about how to create and maintain SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 databases. — Michael D. Reilly Disaster-Preparedness Checklist Be ready if a disaster strikes. Plan ahead and create a disaster-recovery plan now to help your business survive. — David Chernicoff Exchange Server and Messaging Survey Take the Windows IT Pro Exchange Server and Messaging Survey and let us know what content you need. — Editors Exploring NET Commands — Kelly Smith Featured How-to Video: Configure Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging In these 3 videos from J. Peter Bruzzese, review the features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007's Unified Messaging and walk through configuring unified messaging in your Exchange 2007 environment. — Anne Grubb Finding and Fixing NT Memory Leaks Memory leaks occur when worker threads are created but not deleted, and when a thread allocates but doesn’t release memory. Corrective action includes updating software; stopping and starting the application responsible for the leak; and rebooting. — Paula Sharick First Look at SBS 2003 Security See how well SBS 2003 meets the goals of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative. — Paula Sharick Getting the Best Performance Out of BackOffice Server BackOffice Server configuration for optimum performance is often more of a black art than an exact science. — David Chernicoff Graphics Cards for Every Budget Check out these five graphics cards to find the right mix of features, price, and performance for your next upgrade. — Jonathan Chau Groove Server 2007 Makes Online Collaboration Easier Groove Server 2007 offers useful tools for online collaboration, such as SharePoint access and synchronization, server backup and relay, discussion forums, and client-to-client synchronization, and you can manage it inhouse or via a hosted service. — J. Peter Bruzzese Group Policy for Mobile Users Learn how to use Group Policy in Win2K to enforce restrictions on users who don't have a direct connection to your LAN. — Emmett Dulaney How IT and Volume Licensing Can Work for Your Medium-Sized Business — Michael Risse How Many Users Will Exchange Server Support? To successfully deploy Exchange Server 5.5, you must focus on the effects Exchange Server configuration can have on day-to-day server administration, and not just on performance and scalability. — Jerry Cochran How Reliable Are Your NT Applications? How well will a system operate with your particular applications and workloads? The most direct answer lies in explicit testing of your system with the OS, application, and fault-tolerant support that you'll be using. — Timothy Tsai , et al. I Want Computerized Elections! Kathy Ivens shares her thoughts on the current elections and asks the question, Why isn’t the US election process computerized? — Kathy Ivens Installing Microsoft Cluster Server Planning, preparing, and installing your cluster server software. — Brad Cooper Installing MTS and MSMQ in a Clustered Environment Learn about applications accessing Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ) or Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) running in a clustered environment. — Anders Samuelsson Installing SQL Server Are you a network administrator who has recently become a database administrator, too? Here's your guide to setting up SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7.0. — Michael D. Reilly Integrating Directory and Certificate Services Businesses often secure transactions on their Web sites by using digital certificates. This article describes how to install Netscape's Directory Server and Certificate Server to work together. — William Wong Integrating Microsoft Exchange Server's KMS and Certificate Server Ensuring secure transactions among Exchange Server users. — William Wong Interact and Win a Windows IT Pro T-Shirt Tell us about the most surprising thing you learned when assessing the security of your network. We'll send a T-shirt to the reader whose surprising finding surprises us the most. — Jerry Cochran Introducing Internet Information Services 5.0 IIS 5.0 might look like its predecessor, but it includes several key changes under the hood. — Ken Spencer Introduction to Microsoft Project 2000 Microsoft's latest offering in project management software plays a role in individual projects as well as providing an enterprisewide solution. Find out if it can fit the needs of everyone in your organization. — Donald Shanfelt IP Security in Windows 2000 Windows 2000 includes IPSec, the IPv6 security protocol that lets you secure your network and keep existing applications and network hardware. Find out how IPSec works and how to implement it. — Tao Zhou Is SBS 2003 Right for You? Learn about the key features, design, and upgrade possibilities of SBS 2003—a Windows 2003 domain in a box. — Christa Anderson It's Time-Change Time… Again! Prepare your Microsoft Windows systems for the changeover to Daylight Saving Time with help from Windows IT Pro's library of time-change articles. — Anne Grubb JFFNMS survey Is JFFNMS as good as Doug Toombs says it is? Share your experiences with using the software. Complete our survey, and get a Windows IT Pro T-shirt! — Editors Laptop of the Month: Dell's Inspiron 4000 My first "laptop of the month" is Dell's stunning Inspiron 4000. Dell currently sells two lines of business laptops. I chose an Inspiron 4000 because it's the perfect middle ground between the super-small Latitude LS and the Inspiron 8000 behemoth. — Paul Thurrott Leveraging Managed Functions in Computed Columns Get an introduction to the concept of managed computed columns and see a simple example of one that implements CLR integration string-parsing functionality. — Derek Comingore Leveraging the Power of Exchange Public Folders You can begin to use Microsoft Exchange Public Folders to reduce the amount of email in your inbox and empower users to manage these folders, thereby reducing the stress on your IT department. — Paula Sharick License 6.0: The New Deal Microsoft has pushed back the introduction of License 6.0-again. Find out more about this new “simplified” plan. — Kathy Ivens Look, Ma-No ICA! When the time came to find a thin-client solution for its manufacturing plants, Motorola's Semiconductor Product Sector decided on an unconventional choice. — Christa Anderson Make the Most of SharePoint Portal Server Find answers to common questions and tips for extending SharePoint Portal Server's basic benefits. — Tony Redmond Managing COM+ Applications Learn how to install and manage COM+ components and applications on your servers in Win2K. — Ken Spencer Managing Service Packs and Hotfixes Keep your network up-to-date and secure without burning the midnight oil. — Randy Franklin Smith Managing Your Migration and Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 We wrap up the series by providing solutions for supporting and using both IPv4 and IPv6, and showing you a means with which to connect remote sites running IPv6 over an IPv4 link. — John Howie Mapping Practice to Theory: NT Networking and the OSI Model Using the ISO’s model to map a TCP/IP network. — Christa Anderson Messaging System Revitalizes Medical Center Walton Medical Center in Monroe, Georgia, implemented a unified messaging system that lets users access email and voicemail from a common mailbox. The results have been increased efficiency for management and key personnel. — Carol Tomerlin MetaFrame XP: A Guided Tour New features, a new management console, and new licensing make the most recent MetaFrame version a real winner. — Christa Anderson Microsoft BizTalk Microsoft combines technology, develops standards, and provides a transaction mechanism for e-commerce. Microsoft Host Integration Server 2000 Discover how the latest version of Microsoft’s SNA Server can connect your Windows systems and legacy hosts. — Tao Zhou Microsoft's Web Application Stress Tool Explore how to use Microsoft's Web Application Stress tool to tune your Web applications. — Ken Spencer Minasi Talks ... Client/Server When it comes to bedrock, ubiquitous PC networking terms, few are as ubiquitous as client/server. — Mark Minasi Minasi Talks ... Encryption Any security system relies, at least in part, on encryption. However, there are right ways and wrong ways to use encryption. — Mark Minasi Minasi Talks ... the Internet Sometimes it’s useful to get back to basics, and what’s more basic in the Microsoft networking world than TCP/IP? — Mark Minasi Mobile and Wireless Client Software Looking at the various categories of mobile and wireless client software can help you wade through the vast, expanding sea of available software. — John D. Ruley MOM Improves with Age Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 strengthens Microsoft's systems management platform by delivering a slew of enhancements, such as the new Operator Console UI, Management Packs, health modeling, and improved reporting. — Ethan Wilansky , et al. Monitoring Win2K Web Site Performance and Availability Want to know whether your Web sites are meeting expectations? Track performance and availability from a customer's perspective. — Curt Aubley , et al. My Favorite Tips for Windows XP SP2 Learn techniques for delaying deployment of XP SP2 if necessary, safely deploying it when you're ready, managing Windows Firewall, modifying existing GPOs to contain the new .adm templates, and more. — Jeremy Moskowitz Network Monitor Basics Understand Network Monitor's basic capabilities, learn how to use its features, and discover Network Monitor 2.0's new features. — Bill Heldman Networking: It's Not Just for Businesses Anymore! I used to be a technogeek. Now I'm mainstream. — David Chernicoff NT Security: Establishing Custom Administrative Control Many analysts complain that no way exists to subdivide an NT domain into separate administrative units. Is this statement really true? — Randy Franklin Smith Online Education Online education sites offer an alternative method of studying for the MCP exams. Learn how these sites function and how to evaluate them. — L. J. Locher Oracle8 on NT Oracle has added new features to Oracle8: support for very large databases (VLDBs) and support for objects. — Mike Curtis Outlook 2007 Preview Outlook 2007 Beta 1 lets you work with RSS feeds and other new information sources, beefs up antiphishing protection, streamlines folder sharing, and provides two oft-requested improvements to the Out of Office Assistant, among other key features. — Sue Mosher Paging Peformance Several tools help monitor and increase your system's paging performance. — Kenton Gardinier Pathworks and NT — Brad Cooper Paving the Way for Microsoft Cluster Server An MSCS installation requires much administrative preparation. If you follow these guidelines, your installation will proceed without a hitch. — Ron Milione Penton’s Windows 2000 Magazine Network Names Best of Show Winners at Microsoft Tech Ed 2001 Penton Technology Media has named the winners for the Windows 2000 Magazine Best of Show Awards at Microsoft Tech Ed 2001. — Editors Per-User Auditing Tell us how you might use per-user auditing to ease administration, catch a hacker, or comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. — Editors Planning an Exchange 2000 Migration Strategy Before you move to Exchange 2000 Server, you need to start with a clean infrastructure. Find out the keys to a smooth migration. — Tony Redmond Preparing for Windows 2000 Server Terminal Services Review several important things you need to know as you get started with Terminal Services. — Christa Anderson Quality of Service QoS provides an application a bandwidth-level guarantee. The authors cover the major schools of thought on how to provide QoS on the Internet. — Barrie Sosinsky , et al. Quick Command-Line Reference One of the biggest headaches of command-line utilities is keeping track of their many different syntaxes and options. This command-line reference should help demystify some of them. — Sean Deuby RAS Q&A Help with solving common RAS and DUN setup problems. — Mark Mosher Remote Web Administration, Part 1 Developing a co-location strategy for your Web site by using an understanding of Internet technology, a proper perspective, careful planning, diligence, and a little luck. — Ethan Wilansky , et al. Remote Web Administration, Part 2 How to access the Web server remotely for administration and how to secure the server from attacks. — Ethan Wilansky , et al. Routing, NT, & RIP Learn how to use NT Server as a software-based router. — Carol A. Monaghan , et al. SBS 2003 Client Setup SBS 2003 eases and simplifies the ongoing task of creating new users. — David Chernicoff Scale Your Web Site Knowing how to grow your Web site can mean the difference in failure or success. Learn how to move beyond high traffic volumn with high availability and robust handling of hardware failures. — Shawn Wildermuth Scrutinizing Scriptomatic Scriptomatic is billed as a utility that writes scripts for you. Learn whether it lives up to this claim. — Christa Anderson Scrutinizing Windows Authentication Do you give much thought to how Windows authentication works? You should. Here's a look at the basics, including an examination of the related protocols. — Roger A. Grimes Server Storage Options To get the best storage for your needs, you should consider hard disk drive technology as well as storage design. Learn about high availability, cost, and other differences between locally attached storage, NAS, JBOD, and SAN. — Alan Sugano Services for UNIX 3.5's Flair for Interoperability The most recent version of Microsoft's SFU gives Windows users a toolkit of applications with which to create a true UNIX environment that blends impressively with the Windows OS. — Jeff Fellinge Small Business Case Study Roundup Take a look at this article to help decide whether an SBS solution is right for your organization. — Joshua Feinberg Souping it Up Get the best performance from your systems and applications. — John Enck State of Computer Telephony 97: Beyond the Expo The Computer Telephony business is dead serious in its quest to offer products and services that feature the best of both worlds from which it was born: the phone and computer industries. — Chris Bajorek , et al. Storage UPDATE Runs Storage Survey Here's a chance to participate in a survey about storage trends. — Barrie Sosinsky Submit a Caption for CTRL + ALT + DEL — Various Authors Submit a Caption for CTRL + ALT + DEL: Lame — Various Authors Submit a Caption for CTRL + ALT + DEL: Panic — Various Authors Submit a Caption for CTRL + ALT + DEL: Warning has increased — Various Authors Supplement: Jasmine and Object Database Resources — Karen Watterson Suppressing Spam As the threat of virus infection increases, so does the importance of protecting your environment from spam. New Exchange 2003 features help you combat the surge of spam, but if you're not ready for a migration, you might try third-party tools. — Tony Redmond Take our spyware Instant Poll What’s your favorite spyware-fighting tool? — Joe Kinsella Taking the Byte out of Windows NT Compression Learn whether users can reliably deploy the file compression utility that ships with NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 with little or no performance cost. — Jack Funk Tell Us What's Hot at Tech Ed 2003 — Various Authors Tell Us Your Root Kit Horror Stories Share your root kit horror stories in the Reader Comments area of this article. — Editors Test Your IT Trivia Knowledge! — Various Authors Test Your Knowledge — Michael Otey Test Your Knowledge How much did you learn about SQL Server 2000 from reading this article? Take our almost-painless test! — Michael Otey The Accidental Hacker Exploits IIS Bugs Steps to help protect Internet Information Servers (IIS) 3.0 and4.0 from bugs. — Andrey Kruchkov The Case for Windows 98 Win98 is an exceptional operating system (OS), with features that appeal to the most hardcore NT administrator. — Jonathan Chau The Evolution of 32-Bit Windows Viruses In the battle to secure your systems against viruses, arm yourself by knowing where viruses originate, what forms they can take, and how they can damage your systems. — Peter Szor , et al. The Red Badge of Clearance Don't spend more protecting something than it will cost you if security is compromised. — Sydney Bush The Security Event Log Ask Randy Franklin Smith about Microsoft's cryptic Security Event Log entries. — Randy Franklin Smith The Straight Story on Virtual Server Got questions about Microsoft Virtual Server 2005? Ask Michael Otey in a Virtual Server 2005 chat on May 25, 2005, 12 p.m. EDT. — Michael Otey The View from WinHEC Jason Bovberg reports on products he liked at WinHEC this week, and Paul Thurrott gives his take on the conference. — Editors Topaz Is a Gem Discover the new features and improvements that the new version of Microsoft Systems Management Server will offer. — Marshall Copeland Tracking with Network Monitor 2.0 Use Network Monitor to capture and record data and to analyze traffic patterns in your Win2K network. — L. J. Locher Use Google Apps to Connect to Microsoft Office Use Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar in tandem with Microsoft Word and Outlook to create collaborative workspaces and extend document, spreadsheet, and calendaring to the Web. — Will Kelly Users In Workgroups Learn how to duplicate users on multiple computers, create users on remote computers, and control and troubleshoot logons. — Kathy Ivens Using Microsoft's x86 Kernel Debugger Troubleshooting your crashed NT systems — Robert Kozlowski Using Windows Security with IIS and SQL Server 2000 Discover how you can configure a Web application that accesses SQL Server 2000 to use a Windows username and password for authentication. — Ken Spencer We want to know what gaps you stumbled across. — Ethan Wilansky | |||||||||||
