Windows Nt Performance Tuning & Optimization (Windows Nt Professional Library)

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Reviews
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Dedicated to what author Kenton Gardinier terms the art of performance tuning, Windows NT Performance Tuning & Optimization boasts an impressive compilation of tips and tricks guaranteed to make your servers sizzle. Though clearly a fan of NT, Gardinier judiciously assesses the operating system (including its faults).

The insights start almost before the book does, with a list of 10 performance-boosting tips right in the introduction. Extremely basic (the first item is "add more memory"), this list prods you to consider simple ways you can enhance performance before delving into meatier methods. Indicative of its well-designed approach, the book begins with a "Getting to Know You" chapter on the Windows NT server environment, outlining both hardware and operating-system architecture. A terrific chapter on capacity planning follows, discussing how to anticipate your resource requirements. This section walks you through the process of forecasting your network's growth and even recommends several helpful tools.

From there, the book gets down to the business of making your servers run faster, exploring memory, network, printing, and graphics subsystem performance. A particularly handy chapter on using the NT registry teaches you how to soup up your servers without bringing your system to a screeching halt (and in the process destroying mounds of data). But perhaps most useful to those unabashed Microsoft shops are the chapters devoted to Microsoft-specific server software. While not designed to be the definitive word on Internet Information Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, or Systems Management Server, these chapters offer guidance on making these servers run efficiently while keeping NT humming. --Sarah Roberts Witt

Book Description
Now that Windows NT is firmly entrenched as the standard network operating system for many corporations, NT professionals are looking for ways to fine-tune NT's performance. There is a need for information that goes well beyond installation and configuration as corporations take their existing NT networks and look for ways to scale them or make them run more smoothly. There are currently no books on the market that addresses these performance issues-two books have been proposed for publishing.

Synopsis
Now that Windows NT is firmly entrenched as the standard network operating system for many corporations, NT professionals are looking for ways to fine-tune NT's performance. Full of real-world solutions, this book covers every performance topic from general tuning techniques to in-depth analysis of tuning with the registry, defining and minimizing bottlenecks, and domain and capacity planning.

From the Back Cover
Break through performance walls on your NT enterprise network! Here's the only book to guarantee performance gains on your NT network! In Windows NT Performance Tuning & Optimization, NT expert and lecturer Kenton Gardinier provides a comprehensive tuning and otpimization plan based on thousands of hours of real-world experience on hundreds of NT networks, both large and small. You'll get sound, practical recommendations and undocumented methods for improving system performance and proactively troubleshooting and monitoring your NT environment. Learn About: using capacity planning to design reliable NT environments that scale; topology strategies for creating optimal domain structures, TCP/IP LAN and WAN configurations, and heterogenous environments; identifying and minimizing critical subsystem bottlenecks; tuning backoffice components: IIS, Proxy Server, Exchange, SQL Server, and SMS; network, disk, and memory hardware optimization; tweaking the graphics subsystem, including server-based streaming video, 2-D and 3-D rendering, and the new AGP architecture; new techniques for using the Performance Monitor to create measurement databases with other utilities and automate the collection of performance data; add and configure critical resource parameters through the Registry while still keeping the Registry lean and mean.

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