Test with Microsoft Web Stress Tool to tune IIS <i>before</i> it hits the wall. Then use Performance Monitor to measure the improvements.
Not surprisingly in today's job market, salaries are up, up, up for just about everyone. You can move ever higher in the compensation pile with these tickets: job experience, developer talent, or Windows 2000 skills.
- By Linda Briggs
- 01/01/2000
Three new Resource Kit tools can reduce repetitive typing and perform scheduled file copying for you at night.
- By Chris Brooke
- 12/01/1999
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.
- By Chris Brooke
- 12/01/1999
Is online shopping the best way to get your certification books?
As you prepare for the next wave in networking, make sure you’re doing it right with Microsoft Official Curriculum.
- By Frank Miller
- 12/01/1999
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.
- By Harry Brelsford
- 12/01/1999
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.
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.
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.
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
Hidden beneath the salary survey numbers are additional important facts, including the non-monetary perks of certification.
How should you read the salary survey numbers?
- By Linda Briggs
- 07/01/1999
Great things come in small packages. Take this free NT data dump utility as an example.
- By Chris Brooke
- 07/01/1999
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
Stand apart from your peers by adding the Compaq Accredited Systems Engineer title to your MCSE.
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.