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Appendix A
Administrative Tools Reference

This appendix lists the Windows NT Administrative Tools and the functions they perform. Table A.1 lists various system administrative tasks and the tools to use to perform them, as well as each tool’s location. For example, if you want to change the pagefile size, but can’t remember which tool to use, look up pagefile in Table A.1, and it will show you that the System icon, accessed via the Control Panel, should be used. You will often find that there are several different ways to perform the same task; only the most common are listed in the table.

Add Printer Wizard

•  Create printers.

•  Connect to network printers.

Command Prompt

•  Start processes.

•  Schedule programs and commands with the AT command.

Convert

•  Convert FAT volumes to NTFS.

Date/Time Icon

•  Configure automatic adjustment for daylight saving time.

•  Set the system date and time.

DHCP Manager

•  Create and manage the leased IP address range.

•  View which IP addresses are managed by which host.

Dial-up Networking

•  Define phone book entries.

•  Connect to remote LANs using RAS.

•  Connect to the Internet.

Disk Administrator

•  Create and format disk partitions, volumes, and stripe sets.

•  Create and format stripe sets with parity.

•  Establish and break mirror/duplex sets.

•  Assign drive IDs.

•  Save and restore disk configuration.

Display Icon

•  Set display colors and resolution.

•  Configure password-protected screen savers.

DNS Manager

•  Manage the DNS Service.

Event Viewer

•  View the System, Security, and Application event logs.

•  Set event log size and retention time.

File Manager

•  Create and manage Macintosh volumes.

Inbox

•  Install the Windows messaging system.

•  Compose, read, and delete messages.

Licensing Manager

•  Change from per server to per seat licensing method.

MacFile

•  View, disconnect, and send messages to Macintosh users.

•  View and close client connections to Macintosh volumes.

•  View and close files opened by Macintosh clients.

My Computer Icon

•  Format floppy disks.

•  Locate files and folders on your computer.

Network Client Administrator

•  Create a network installation disk.

•  Install domain management tools on network systems.

Network Icon

•  Change domain, workgroup, or computer names.

•  Add or remove network services.

•  Add, remove, or configure protocols.

•  Add, remove, or configure network adapters.

•  Change the order of network bindings.

Performance Monitor

•  Monitor local and remote system performance.

•  View logged performance data.

•  Define system alerts.

Printer Properties

•  Set printer permissions.

•  Set printer auditing.

•  Configure separator pages.

•  Configure printer scheduling.

RDISK

•  Create and update Emergency Repair Disk.

Recycle Bin

•  Restore deleted files.

•  Manage properties of file deletion.

Registry Editor

•  Search the Registry of a particular key.

•  Manage the Registry on a remote computer.

•  Save Registry keys.

•  Modify Registry entries.

•  Set Registry permissions and auditing.

Remote Access Administrator

•  View and administrate RAS.

•  Assign user permissions for dial-up communications.

Server Manager

•  Add and remove computers from domain.

•  Send messages to domain computers.

•  Promote BDC to PDC.

•  Synchronize domain controllers.

•  Create and manage Macintosh volumes.

•  Send messages to Macintosh clients.

•  View and disconnect users.

•  Configure folder replication.

Services

•  Start and stop system services.

•  Change service startup types.

System Policy Editor

•  Create domain-wide system policies.

•  Create domain-wide user policies.

•  Create user and system-specific policies.

Task Manager

•  Change a process’s base priority class.

•  Monitor local system performance.

•  Terminate a process.

User Manager

•  Configure the system audit policy.

•  Create, copy, rename, and delete system user accounts.

•  Set and change user passwords.

•  Set account and user rights policy.

•  Define paths for profiles and logon scripts.

User Manager For Domains

•  Configure the domain audit policy.

•  Create, copy, rename, and delete domain user accounts.

•  Set and change user passwords.

•  Set account and user rights policy.

•  Define paths for profiles and logon scripts.

•  Set account logon restrictions.

•  Establish domain trusts.

Windows NT Diagnostics

•  Generate diagnostics reports.

•  Display assigned IRQs.

Windows NT Explorer

•  Manage files and folders.

•  View and set object permissions.

•  Create, copy, move, and delete files and folders.

•  Configure auditing on files and folders.

•  Take ownership of files and folders.

•  Perform disk error checking.

Windows NT Setup Disks

•  Restore data from the emergency repair disk.

•  Check for system corruption.

WINNT32

•  Create setup disks.

•  Install and upgrade Windows NT.

WINS Manager

•  Manage the WINS server replication functions.

•  View registered WINS clients.

•  Backup and restore the WINS database.