- Moving Components from MTS to COM+
- Oct 1, 2000
- This article discusses the design changes from MTS and new features of COM+ as it relates to the Visual Basic developer. Use this article to get started porting your applications from MTS to COM+, and taking advantage of its new services.
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- Moving onto a Windows XP Desktop
- Mar 8, 2002
- If you’re considering Windows XP, you must first decide whether to adopt the Home Edition or Professional. After that, it’s a matter of working through upgrade or new install requirements and learning to live with a new, more colorful Windows desktop. On balance, it seems to be a pretty good move!
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- New TCP/IP Features for Windows 2000
- Apr 13, 2001
- This article gives a brief overview of the new features of TCP/IP as implemented under Windows 2000.
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- Obtaining the Latest Release of Samba
- Mar 29, 2002
- This article provides the information necessary to download the latest Samba source code distribution and also looks at the various precompiled binary packages that are available.
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- Optimizing Windows NT Server and Microsoft Exchange: 28 Percent + More Speed Out of a Busy Exchange Server
- Jan 15, 2001
- This short article by Windows NT/2000 tuning and sizing expert Curt Aubley outlines Microsoft Exchange performance results achieved from various tuning efforts.
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- PDB File Internals
- Aug 6, 2001
- In this excerpt from Undocumented Windows 2000 Secrets: A Programmer's Cookbook, Windows programming expert Sven Schreiber discusses the internal structure of Microsoft PDB files.
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- Performing a Great Screen Play: The Many Routes to Remote Computing
- Apr 12, 2002
- Symantec's pcAnywhere is no longer the de facto program for remote access. Ross Scott Rubin demonstrates how cross-platform options, hosted services, and two new options built into Windows XP can bridge the distance between you and another computer.
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- Planning a Cluster Server Implementation with Windows 2000
- Feb 22, 2002
- Let author and columnist Joseph M. Lamb guide you through the history of clustering, and how you can use the Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating system to deploy reliable and scalable clustered systems.
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- Planning a Migration to Windows 2000
- Jul 12, 2002
- Learn how to design and implement a move to Windows 2000. Topics include DNS considerations, planning functions, basics of group policy, and interactions with Active Directory.
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- Planning an Active Directory Namespace
- May 25, 2001
- In this article, Windows 2000 expert Curt Simmons discusses the namespace-planning process for an Active Directory implementation.
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- Planning and Deploying Clients
- Sep 28, 2001
- This sample chapter covers the Microsoft-specified objectives for the Deploying, Configuring, and Troubleshooting the Client Computer section of the Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 exam.
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- Printer Sharing In-Depth: Permissions and Internet Sharing
- Jun 9, 2009
- Eric Geier discusses setting up and using Windows printer permissions and remote internet printing.
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- Programmatic Group Manipulation
- Mar 16, 2000
- Scripting provides system administrators an optimal means of automating tedious and time-consuming application, configuration, and management tasks. In addition you can take advantage of new capabilities offered by VBScript, ADSI and Windows Scripting Host.
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- Programming the Windows Script Host
- Apr 29, 2008
- Paul McFedries shows how to execute scripts and runs through the various elements in the Windows Script Host object model.
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- Programming with Windows Management Instrumentation
- Oct 4, 2000
- Dan Fox walks you through a simple development project that shows you the capabilities of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
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- Protecting the SAM with Syskey
- Jan 25, 2002
- Security expert Roberta Bragg describes the syskey command and shows you how to protect your Windows NT 4.0 system by using it..
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- Providing Access to Citrix MetaFrame Through a Firewall
- May 1, 2002
- In this article, Ted Harwood teaches you how access to your Citrix MetaFrame server farm works from a network level.
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- Public Key Technology in Windows 2000
- Mar 30, 2001
- Windows 2000 has a built-in PKI infrastructure. Here, the authors discuss PKI architecture, interoperability issues, and applications that use Windows 2000’s PKI infrastructure.
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- Reading and Writing the Registry in .NET
- May 24, 2002
- The Windows Registry is a data repository that exists on each computer in Windows 95 and later systems. Scott Loban introduces the basics of storing and retrieving runtime information in the Registry.
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- Recovering Deleted and Unsaved Files in Windows 2000
- May 4, 2001
- This article by New Riders author Grant Miller tells you how to recover files in Windows 2000 that may have been accidentally deleted. Two third-party tools that will assist in this process are described.
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