COM/DCOM

Bob Familiar of Microsoft presented on the importance of MS Transaction Server.  Slides from Bob's presentation are available here (1.33 kb ZIP file, PowerPoint '97 presentation) or you may visit Bob and Larry's homepage for more information.

Rational Software presented Rose, a powerful cross-language modeling tool that helps build and manage distributed components.

Writing ActiveX Server Components

David Wihl of Software Artisans presented an in-depth description of how to write components for Microsoft's ActiveX Server Pages (ASP). Issues such as threading, transaction support security were covered in detail.

Presentation is available here (29 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '97 presentation).

Software Artisans specializes in ActiveX Server Components and Consulting. SA-FileUp, a component permitting file upload from a standard browser, is sold to many major organizations around the world. Visit their web site at http://www.softartisans.com

Writing ActiveX Server Components

David Wihl of Software Artisans presented an in-depth description of how to write components for Microsoft's ActiveX Server Pages (ASP). Issues such as threading, transaction support security were covered in detail.

Presentation is available here (29 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '97 presentation).

Software Artisans specializes in ActiveX Server Components and Consulting. SA-FileUp, a component permitting file upload from a standard browser, is sold to many major organizations around the world. Visit their web site at http://www.softartisans.com

Internet Information Server 4.0 - ASP 2.0

David Wihl of Software Artisans presented IIS 4.0 and ASP 2.0.

Presentation is available here (480 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '97 presentation).

Software Artisans specializes in ActiveX Server Components and Consulting. SA-FileUp, a component permitting file upload from a standard browser, is sold to many major organizations around the world. Visit their web site at http://www.softartisans.com

Bright Tiger Technologies

Jerry Kane (jkane@brighttiger.com) and Dave Gruber of Bright Tiger Technologies presented their innovative scalability solutions for IIS

Presentation is available here (120 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '97 presentation).

Visit their web site at http://www.brighttiger.com

The NT Executive - Internals

We were privileged to welcome Tony Mason of Open Systems Resources, one of the world's NT Internals experts.

Tony presented an overview of NT Internals, specifically the architecture of the operating system, touching on the key components that make up Windows NT.

Tony spoke for almost 2 hours continuously. This was after a full day of teaching his File System internals course. We had to convince him to stop to at least allow a plug for his company - OSR. As we predicted, there was almost no question about NT that he could not answer.

Open Systems Resources is based in Amherst, NH. OSR offers consulting and custom development services for NT Drivers, File Systems and related services.

No presentation is available.

IDUG April 9, 1997

Active Server and IIS 3.0

David Wihl of Software Artisans, Inc presented Active Server and Internet Information Server (IIS) 3.0, including a real-life insurance processing application.

Presentation is available here (135 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '97 presentation).

Microsoft Transaction Server ("Viper")

Mike Eisenberg of Microsoft New England presented Microsoft Transaction Server (aka "Viper"). This is a new component of NT. Distributed, object-based transactions are key to the enterprise applications of the future. And Microsoft's Transaction Server is certain one of the important pieces of the puzzle. For more information, and to order an free evaluation CD, see http://www.microsoft.com/transaction.

Presentation is available here (56 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '97 presentation).

There was no vendor presentation. Instead, as in January, we had a very useful peer supported tips and tricks session.

Certification and Training

Marie Tosi of Microsoft New England talked about Certification and Training for NT Professionals.

There is no presentation available.

Compaq - Clusters for NT

Michael O'Brien of Compaq in Houston came by to present Compaq's Clustering Solutions for NT.

Presentation is available here (814 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint presentation).

NT 5.0 Preview

Dean Leonard of Microsoft New England gave a sneak preview of NT 5.0, demonstrating Active Directory and DFS. While limited by NDA, he teased us with some hints about many more features to come. There will be at least one more NT 5.0 presentation during 1997 at NENTUG.

Due to NDA, there is no presentation available. However, if you are an MSDN Enterprise or Universal subscriber, then you have already received some components which Dean demonstrated. Also, you can download DFS from ftp://ftp1.microsoft.com/msdownload.

HighGround Systems

Storage Resource Management in NT 5.0

In September 1996, HighGround Systems, a Boxboro, MA company, entered a development, marketing, and technology agreement with Microsoft. In a move that will bring enterprise-class Storage Resource Management tools to Microsoft Windows® NT Server and Windows NT Workstation, Microsoft will embed the Media Services component of HighGround technology in a future release of Windows NT.

Windows NT Media Services (NTMS) will provide standard management tools for bulk-media drives and robotic libraries and relieve ISVs of the burden of having to provide proprietary bulk-media management and device/changer integration. With NTMS, storage resources will become sharable by multiple applications, and the control point of decisions about when and how to implement new storage resource technologies will shift into the hands of the End User.

Presented by Tom Rose of HighGround. Presentation is available here (72 kb ZIP, Powerpoint).

Internet Information Server 3.0 and Active Server

IIS 3.0 has recently been released. Atypical of Microsoft, this product received less fanfare than it merited, given what a powerful platform it is for developing web applications.

Using a real application rather than a canned demo, David Wihl (Director of NENTUG and President of Software Artisans, Inc) presented Active Server, HTTP 1.1 and "k2" the version of IIS beyond 3.0.

Presentation is available here (73 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '95 Presentation).

There was no vendor presentation in January. Instead, we had a very useful and fun peer supported tips and tricks session. Look for more of these in the future.

Active Directory - NT Directory Services

Learn about Active Directory, the Directory Services for NT that will be debuting this year. Presented by UCI Corp., an ATEC and Solution Provider.

Presentation is available here (392kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '95 Presentation), or you can get it from the Microsoft PDC Web Site (choose "Papers and Slides" - look for "johnthom.exe").

Marathon Technologies

Richard Fiorentinno of Marathon Technologies presented their innovative high availability NT solutions.

Presentation is available here (93 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint Presentation)

Catapult: Microsoft's Proxy Server in Detail

In depth presentation of Microsoft's Proxy Server

Presented by New Technology Partners.

Presentation is available here (90 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '95 Presentation)

Cheyenne Software

Mike Nolte of Cheyenne's New England office presented Cheyenne Backup products for NT and gave some insight into Cheyenne's recent acquisution by Computer Associates.

Connecting your Intranet to the Internet

Now that you have been publishing on your in-house intranet, learn how to connect to the Internet, publish your information to the world at large, let your in-house users access the Internet, while protecting the corporate LAN. This presentation showcases IIS, the Proxy Servers (e.g. Catapult), SQL Server, and some firewall solutions. Presented by David Wihl.

Presentation is available here (210 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '95 Presentation)

Performance and Capacity Planning

How do you squeeze optimal performance out of your NT system? What tools are available? How do you identify bottlenecks? What can be achieved by load balancing?

To go with the evening's theme, Ken Vonasek presented Digital's Performance and Capacity planning tool.

Presentation will be available.

Deployment Planning for NT

What is required to manage a large scale rollout of NT? What issues does the Manager face? What migration complications can be anticipated? With NT gaining in popularity, this is a critical topic for any System Administrator or IT Manager. Presented by Ron Arden of Valinor.

Presentation is available here, or you can download it from Valinor's web archive.

Raptor's NT Firewall Products

Ray Moorman of Raptor Systems, Inc. presented their outstanding Firewalls for NT.

Explorer '96

Hynes Convention Center

Octopus Technology

David Crocker, CEO, and Alan Rabinovich, Exec. VP of Technology, of Octopus presented their innovative product.

Octopus software for Windows NT provides data fault tolerance and real time data protection for Windows NT networks. With Octopus, updates to source files are mirrored to disks across LANs and WANs at user-specified targets. An up-to-date copy of mirrored files is available on the network in the event of data loss or hardware failure at the source location. Octopus ASO (Automatic Switch Over) can be used to configure a target system to automatically assume the role of a failed source system - with no reboot or human intervention.

Octopus Technologies is also releasing SUPER ASO (code name), a significant release to Octopus ASO, concurrent with the release of NT 4.0. SUPER ASO, a clustering product, provides switch over in less than one second and also allows for the target server to maintain its legacy responsibilities.

Visit Octopus to find out more about Octopus for Windows NT

Presentation is available here (444 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint Presentation).

SQL Server 6.5 Update

Jim Vacca (Microsoft New England DB Specialist) presented the SQL Server 6.5 update.

Presentation is available here (191 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '95 Presentation)

Advanced SQL Database access via IIS and the Web

was presented by David Wihl on Thursday July 18, 8:30-9:20 AM in room 202. Learn what's beyond HTX/IDC, such as using JAVA and ODBC. For the hardcore!

Presentation is available here. (39 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '95 Presentation)

ActiveX Scripting in Internet Explorer

Tim Ewald, COM Specialist and Software Artist presented on Thursday July 18, 2:30-3:20 in room 202. Learn the IE Scripting Model, VB Script and JavaScript.

Presentation is available here (248kb ZIP file, HTML with examples).

"Where do You Really Want to Go Tomorrow? The Software Market Aiming at Windows 95"

by Andrew Schulman

Have your Windows 95 applications met your expectations or needs? Andrew Schulman gives us his view on the current state of the software industry, using some of the events and excesses connected with Windows 95 as examples. Andrew is senior editor at O'Reilly & Associates, author of "Unauthorized Windows 95", co-author of "Undocumented Windows", "Undocumented DOS" and many articles.

The Boston Computer Society's PC, NT (that's us) and Web Tech Special Interest Groups sponsored this event.

You can download the presentation here (1274 kb ZIP file, Powerpoint '95 Presentation).