End User Support:Windows NT
Ten Useful NT
Resource Kit Utilities
The Windows NT Resource Kit is regarded by many as almost part of the OS, and as
an NT administrator it's well worth getting your hands ona copy. We round up the
most useful 10 utilities to be found in the Kit and explain how best to use them.
By Simon Pride
I
f I were asked for the most useful
Ware background are used to having.
also go as far as to say that, for the
piece of advice I could give to be
(Although, as an aside, the NetWare
serious technical support professional
ginning or intermediate Windows
situation is in some ways similar in
in a Microsoft environment, TechNet
NT system administrators, it would be
that many Novell administration func
is not optional either.
to view the Resource Kit utilities as
tions are eased or even made possible
You can also get the information in
mandatory rather than optional. I am
by the excellent JRButils from JRB Soft
the Resource Kit books from Mi
sometimes known to describe the NT
ware, which can be found on the Web
crosoft's MSDN section of its vast and
Resource Kit books as the real NT
at
nz.com/webnz/JRBSoftware/
.)
constantly changing Web site. I shall
manual and its associated utilities as
You can get the Resource Kit in two
not give a URL for this, since the site is
the bits of NT that got left out .
ways: either by buying the Microsoft
so dynamic it is likely to be out of date
Microsoft is notorious for playing
Press book Windows NT Resource Kit,
before this article reaches you; instead,
its technical cards very close to its chest
which includes a CD of the Resource
go to
www.microsoft.com,
look for
when it comes to documenting how
Kit utilities, or by subscribing to Mi
Developer information and follow
bits of NT (or Windows 95 or 98, for
crosoft's TechNet programme.
links to the MSDN library. Note that in
that matter) actually work, but the Re
TechNet consists mainly of a set of
order to access the information your
source Kit books provide a reasonable
CDs containing the Microsoft Knowl
Web browser will need to support
overview of the nuts and bolts of NT.
edgebase, the full text of many impor
Java, as the interface to the library is a
Similarly, the Resource Kit utilities
tant manuals (such as those for the
Java applet.
provide the missing commands and
whole of BackOffice) and of the vari
The Resource Kit utilities are of two
tools that system administrators com
ous Resource Kits, plus the latest ver
types: the command line utilities
ing from a Unix, VMS or even Net
sion of the Resource Kit utilities. I'd
which carry out the same functions as
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Issue 116 (March 2000) page 7
File: E1716.1
PC Network Advisor
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