In-Depth Features


From the Trenches: The Case of the Disappearing Printer Shares

What do you do when the standard approach to problem-solving doesn't work?

One for the Books

Is online shopping the best way to get your certification books?

Take Back Your Time

Three new Resource Kit tools can reduce repetitive typing and perform scheduled file copying for you at night.

Master Windows 2000 with MOC

As you prepare for the next wave in networking, make sure you’re doing it right with Microsoft Official Curriculum.

Amazing Feast! Windows 2000 on the Table

Seems like you’ve waited years for your reservation to be called, but Windows 2000 Server is almost ready for your dining pleasure. Here’s a sampling of its delights.

Systems Engineering: Make the Internet Virtually Private

By implementing a VPN, you can use the world’s largest public network as a WAN that securely connects your remote users and branch offices.

Microsoft Official Online Curriculum

Prepare for Windows 2000 with free, self-paced training courses from Microsoft. Also, find out what online training companies are ahead of the game with Microsoft Official Curriculum for Win2K.

From the Trenches: Decentralizing Network Admin

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.

Imagination Engineer

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.

Systems Engineering: Test Lab 2000

Setting up a Windows 2000 test lab involves planning, presenting, and documenting. This game plan can help ensure your success.

Analyze This!

How should you read the salary survey numbers?

System Savvy: The Compaq Certification

Stand apart from your peers by adding the Compaq Accredited Systems Engineer title to your MCSE.

Dumpster Diving

Great things come in small packages. Take this free NT data dump utility as an example.

Salary is Just One Perk of Certification

Hidden beneath the salary survey numbers are additional important facts, including the non-monetary perks of certification.

Where Do You Fit in Reality?

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.

Ready, Set, Drive!

From RAID and FAT to FDISK and Disk Administrator, here’s everything you need to know about hard disks and partitioning.

Systems Engineering: Pushing Software with SMS Installer

Get more work done. Use SMS Installer for mundane admin tasks like software installation. Your challenge: getting comfortable with scripting.

"This is One Great Place to Work..."

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.

Crowd Control! 10 Steps to Securing Web Sites

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.

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