With 50 remote administrators relying on headquarters for planning and support, Cox Communications needed to set its administrators free—without giving away the keys to the farm.
- By Clara Parkes
- 12/01/1999
The NT Resource Kit Supplement 4 is packed with cool new tools, including this little gem that lets you do anything from network diagramming to full-blown computer-aided design.
- By Chris Brooke
- 11/01/1999
Setting up a Windows 2000 test lab involves planning, presenting, and documenting. This game plan can help ensure your success.
How should you read the salary survey numbers?
- By Linda Briggs
- 07/01/1999
Stand apart from your peers by adding the Compaq Accredited Systems Engineer title to your MCSE.
Great things come in small packages. Take this free NT data dump utility as an example.
- By Chris Brooke
- 07/01/1999
Hidden beneath the salary survey numbers are additional important facts, including the non-monetary perks of certification.
This magazine's salary survey once again threatens to undermine employee-management relationships everywhere, unless we look at it for what it is: a survey.
From RAID and FAT to FDISK and Disk Administrator, here’s everything you need to know about hard disks and partitioning.
- By Joseph Phillips
- 07/01/1999
Get more work done. Use SMS Installer for mundane admin tasks like software installation. Your challenge: getting comfortable with scripting.
- By Bill Heldman
- 07/01/1999
We interviewed a handful of Microsoft Certified Professionals who told us that their companies treat them like crown jewels. Here’s what they had to say about their companies, their benefits—and their plans to stick around.
Outwit hackers with this 10-step guide for Web security—guaranteed to provide layers of security protocols to keep intruders frustrated and bored, yet allow legitimate users access.
- By Chris Brooke
- 03/01/1999
Sometimes you can trace the solution to your problem by looking at the concepts behind the technology.
- By René Larivière
- 03/01/1999
Do you believe too many people are certified, or do you
wonder what all the hullabaloo is about, anyway?
- By The Forum Guys
- 03/01/1999
Windows NT includes a native facility for the central storage and retrieval of event reporting information. This article explains how this tool works and where the information in it comes from.
- By James D Murray
- 03/01/1999
Before the Windows 2000 stampede leaves you in the dust, spend some time figuring out what you can do today to prepare for the trail.
- By Ed Brovick et al.
- 03/01/1999
To indicate basic hardware mastery, consider adding the vendor-independent A+ certification to your résumé.
- By Emmett Dulaney
- 03/01/1999
The decisions you make up front about hardware, site
design, and operational policies can make the critical
difference in your Exchange installation.
What should have been a standard Banyan StreetTalk
for Windows NT administrative chore turned into a major
source of Sunday afternoon stress.