Windows NTools E-NewsFlash[tm] Electronic Newsletter
Vol. 5, #3- Jan 25, 2000
Published by sunbelt-software.com since 1996 - ISSN: 1527-3407
'Immediate Notification Of Important Windows NT/2000 Events'
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Hi Everyone,
A few very interesting points, so here is a short NewsFlash!
1) A REALLY COOL NEW NT-SITE: SearchNT.COM
2) WIN2K SERVICE PACK TO SHIP IN JUNE
3) NEW POWERUL VERSION 3.1 OF DOUBLE-TAKE RELEASED
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1) A REALLY COOL NEW NT-SITE: SearchNT.COM
I have found a brand new NT site that you should have a look
at. It’s called SearchNT.com. They call themselves ‘The Web's
Windows NT/2000-Specific portal’, and they are right. It’s
one of the best sites that I have seen up to now!
SearchNT.com is a web site for NT pro’s with NT/2000 specific
news and an NT-specialized search database of pre-screened Web
sites. These sites are selected by their Editorial Team, led
by former Computerworld Editor-in-Chief Paul Gillin, based on
topic relevance.
You can go there and register, and what you get is a FREE
Special Report as a bonus: Tips and Hints for Planning your
Migration to Windows 2000, by industry guru Paul Hinsberg.
For NTools E-News subscribers enter promo code AF10 when
you register. This is a time-limited deal so I suggest you
go there right now.
Their registration is FREE and you get these pretty cool
benefits that will save you a lot of time:
- Specialized searches against 7,000 pre-screened NT/2000-
related sites.
- NT Chat
- Tech tips for Administrators and Developers
- Daily NT/2000 News delivered via email
- NT Career Advice
SearchNT.com told me they will also be adding more features
including NT-Specific auctions, vendor storefronts and more.
Visit http://www.searchnt.com and don’t forget to register
for your bonus report. Warmly recommended!
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2) WIN2K SERVICE PACK TO SHIP IN JUNE
Windows NT Magazine (Now Windows 2000 Magazine) just came
out with some interesting news via their newsletter that I’m
relaying here. Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 2000 will be
shipped around June 2000. And it will be already included in
the largest version or W2K, the so called DataCenter Server.
As usual, you will be able to download W2K SP1 for free from
the MS-website and it looks like the size will be much smaller
than we are used to see for NT service packs. There is also
something else new with the W2K SP’s. They are so called
‘slipstreamable’ and that means that when you newly install
the OS, you can automatically include all the SP1 fixes. I’ll
tell you more about that later.
And how come they announce SP1 this early already? (which they
have NEVER done before)... Surveys showed that a ton of people
were planning to wait till SP1 was ready. With this early
announcement they hope to get these people off the fence and
deploy W2K faster.
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2) NEW POWERUL VERSION 3.1 OF DOUBLE-TAKE RELEASED
The new V3.1 of Double-Take is the most manageable, flexible and
fastest version of Double-Take to prevent server downtime that
I have seen. Look into upgrading quickly.
NSI Software has spent months testing and optimizing Double-Take
on some of the fastest enterprise servers and clusters available
with the fastest gigabit networks and fiber channel storage
technologies. The goal was to create a product that will meet
your performance demands now but also in the future.
Quite a few ‘manageability enhancements’ have been added to get
you -at a glance- monitoring of activity and status. The new “world
view” gives visual indication of the status of each Double-Take
server on one screen and allows you to drill down to discover
the source of an alert.
Connection statistics have been organized to clearly display
the most important information such as the number of bytes
transmitted and currently in queue. Several all new statistics
include a percent complete indicator, number of bytes remaining
for mirror operations and the name of the last file mirrored or
replicated so you can easily monitor activity.
Double-Take has always been the leader in protecting mission
critical server clusters but version 3.1 adds even tighter MSCS
integration by providing a MSCS snap-in resource to automatically
manage Double-Take connections as data “moves” between nodes in
a cluster. You can now select an MSCS “virtual server” name as
a target for data replication ensuring that data protection is
uninterrupted if a target node fails.
New options available in Version 3.1:
- Replicate NT Security by name: For servers using local users and
groups (server specific, non-domain accounts) to assign file or
directory permissions or, when replicating to a non-trusted NT
domain, DT 3.1 has an option to send the user or group name to the
target which then matches that name with a local user or group on
the target where possible. Standard NT security is based on a
unique security identifier (SID) which would not match in these
cases resulting in some ACL information being lost.
- Redirected Restore: DT 3.1 now allows data to be automatically
restored to different directory or a different server than the
original source.
- Checksum Compare Every File – DT 3.1 provides an option compare
the checksums of all selected files during a verification operation
or difference mirror, even if the date/time/size attributes match
on both the source and target.
If you own Double-Take for Windows NT 3.0 and have purchased any
optional support offering, a new activation code for the 3.1 release
will be sent to you by mail automatically. Double-Take 3.1 will not
install with a 3.0 or earlier activation code so make sure you have
a new activation code available prior to installing this upgrade.
Otherwise, if you own a previous version of Double-Take for NT, or
for a limited time, any qualified competitive Windows NT based
replication product, you can order the upgrade to Double-Take 3.1
for Windows NT for immediate delivery for a suggested list price
of only $495 per server (existing Double-Take activation code or
competitive proof of purchase required). This competitive upgrade
price will only be available through 3/31/2000 so call Sunbelt or
your reseller now, and download your 30-day eval over at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/dtake.htm
That’s all for the moment!
See you coming Monday,
Warm regards,
Stu
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