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Curing an Exchange Hiccup

Sometimes you can trace the solution to your problem by looking at the concepts behind the technology.

What Really Matters

Do you believe too many people are certified, or do you wonder what all the hullabaloo is about, anyway?

Making Sense of NT Events

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.

10 Steps to Prepare for Windows 2000

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.

Making the Grade with A+

To indicate basic hardware mastery, consider adding the vendor-independent A+ certification to your résumé.

Best Practices of Exchange Planning

The decisions you make up front about hardware, site design, and operational policies can make the critical difference in your Exchange installation.

The Day the Access Rights Lists Stood Still

What should have been a standard Banyan StreetTalk for Windows NT administrative chore turned into a major source of Sunday afternoon stress.

Y2K Success Stories from the Field: Pitching to Management on Y2K

Selling management on your Y2K efforts requires a winning proposal and excellent implementation. Here's how to ensure buy-in.

Y2K Success Stories from the Field: A Matter of Due Diligence

Time is money. Establish the important dates to check for Y2K compliancy, then be methodical in your testing approach.

Y2K Success Stories from the Field: Drilling Down on the Desktop

The details of a particular PC—the real-time clock, the BIOS, and the OS—hold the key to Y2K-compliance. Here’s how to plan your approach.

Get Your Embedded Systems Ready for Y2K

PCs are really only part of the problem. This expert shows you how to tackle the other component of your enterprise’s computer problems: embedded systems.

Keeping Track of Candidates

A mix of Access 97, Exchange, and Outlook turned a stand-alone program into an enterprise application.

Crossing the Chasm: Leverage Your Networking Skills with Programming

Boost your career and leverage your MCSE skills with some knowledge of basic Windows programming concepts.

Just Kick Back

IT professionals expecting easy success miss out on the most rewarding feature of their careers—learning new things.

The Cisco Challenge

Cisco’s ultimate certification costs $1,200 at a minimum and requires two days of lab work at Cisco. But did you know that there are several other titles you can earn on the way to the top?

Extend Your Enterprise Reach with the ODK

The Outlook 98 Deployment Kit lets you install customized versions of Outlook and Internet Explorer across your networks without users doing much at all.

New Virus Changes the Rules

Remote Explorer targets Windows NT computers. Could it strike your network next?

The Few. The Proud. Could You Survive MCSE Boot Camp?

Can’t get away for weeks at an ATEC? Tired of trying to motivate yourself to study? We visited four “MCSE boot camps” to find out if they’re a good use of your training dollars.

Taking Stock of NT

When this company moved its financial Web server platform from Unix to NT, everything worked faster. Could it really be that easy?

Practical Policies

System policies allow you to focus on productivity and streamline downtime on your network. This guide shares the basics.

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