Announcing Graeme Gibson's New Audio Book on Windows NT^™        Order Now    Press Release

 Windows  NT^™ - Tests, Tricks and Technique

This new original audio book is just the ticket for NT professionals and MCSE test candidates who want to learn all about NT while driving to and from work. Based on Gibson's five year experience with the product, and his winning quest for the MCSE rating.   Six hours on 4 cassettes, $79.95 US.

A $900 Seminar Course on 4 Audio Cassettes. Only $79.95  ISBN # 0-916161-27-7 Library of Congress # 99-91042,  published by Computer Training Corporation, 1-800-329-0477.  Full 15 day Money Back Warrantee. $5 Shipping & Handling.

To order we accept  *Official Publication Date Sept 1, 1999.   Shipping as of 8-16-1999. Bookstores, the bookland bar code for this item is: 978-09161621-279.  Available from Baker & Taylor.

What  you will find on the tape:

• The Best way to recover from Blue Screen of Death Events.
• How to Install NT for maximum performance, and minimum down time.
• Tricks to use to speed up all client access, and to promote the best bindings for your nics.
• Why the major equipment vendors NEVER get the disk drives right, and how to do it.
• How to buy $2,500 of Microsoft's NT product for only $125 including Windows 2000!
• Ways to keep your server from crashing when adding new software, without full backups!
• Six ways to tighten up your overall server security in less than an hour.
• Four ways to improve remote access performance and how to avoid the logon error.
• Details on Service Packs, how they serve as bug fixes, and bug introduction tools.
• Why, when taking the tests, you should NEVER answer with up-to-date information in mind.
• The Integration of Netware servers in NT environments, and how gateway services work.
• How to make the test taking experience easy and quick. Including some common sense test tricks.
• Why DNS should never be run on your PDC's and BDC's.  How to resolve WINS-DNS problems.
• How to keep your server from crashing other programs when running 16 bit applications.
• Why you should never have autoexec.bat and config.sys on NT machines.
• Details on disaster recovery and what a true offsite backup means.
• Common Problems with swap files and why the default settings are wrong.
• The undocumented switch to insure your user database is on your ERD.
• Why you should never have an IDE CD-ROM in the first slave position.
• The differences in IDE and SCSI and which to use for what disk drive function.
• Why TEMP files must be placed on NTFS partitions to avoid a slow death in performance.
• Boot recovery steps to take when your boot files are damaged or a mirror drive fails.
• The PDC-BDC-PDC dance and why the defaults can cost you your user data.
• Why NT files must not be installed on compressed partitions or on stripe sets.
• Step by step instructions if you need to break into your own NT server!
• Directory Replication and how to make it work, and the error you must avoid.
• The ten second step you need to do to insure you are notified by the server of problems.  
• How you can make NT workstation™ secure and why it is impossible to do with Win 9.x
• Policies and profiles, the differences, and how to best use them.
• How to use the Orange Book to truly understand the NT security model.
• Why Netware users need to invert their thinking on administrator rights.
• The most serious disk security mistake you can make and how to recover from it.
• and Dozens more...  

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Why You Should consider this audiotape...

• If you support or install NT products.
• Want to pass the core NT 4.0 tests.
• Need to quickly recover from disasters.
• Want a leg up on Windows 2000.
• Have to support a 24x7 operation.
• Need to integrate Novell with NT.
• Have Mac's in your network environment.
• Need a non Microsoft evaluation of the products.
• If you manage MIS staff and need a product overview.
• Need to hire or staff for NT or networking clients.
• Want to configure Window NT Workstation right.
• Need your support staff to not make common mistakes.
• Have to guard against common security errors and flaws.
• Need to understand NT's networking strategy.
• Are required to tune an NT systems for maximum performance.
• Need to install new hardware or modify drivers.
• Have to learn NT with no time to study, while driving or traveling.
• Need to make Blue Screen of Death problems go away fast.
• If you want to supplement the many NT books and get a knowledgeable opinion.
• Feel like you want to spend a day with a true NT expert, and know you did when you get done...

This is NT 102, not for beginners (although they also will benefit) but aimed squarely at the MIS and Network managers and staff that have to keep NT systems going day-by-day. The following experience assumptions are made: 1. You have a working vocabulary, although terms are defined you should know common computer terms and meaning. 2. You have worked with the Explorer interface and have seen at least Windows 95-98 in operation.  3. You have installed software packages or operating systems.  4. You understand basic network issues and could, say map a drive. 5. You have been on the Internet and can reach a URL.  6. E-mail is a service you freely use.

Not Just a Test Course...

As educators, we truly reject training programs that turn out test wonders that know nothing else. This program will be of major benefit to those that truly want to learn NT.  The technique areas of the tape will help even experienced NT professionals that already hold the MCSE and MCP ratings.  Mr. Gibson, in teaching thousands of students, has heard almost every problem there is. The whole idea of training is to learn from others experience and not have to go through the difficult learning curves that can exist in such a sophisticated and large body of code.

Why I Wrote and Recorded an Original Audio Book.

My name is Graeme Gibson, over the last three years I have given hundreds of seminars on Windows NT, I also took and earned the MCSE, and MCP+Internet ratings. In preparing for my tests, I often found myself wishing for audio drill materials that I could study in the car, while driving from seminar to seminar.  I recorded several of my own, and when I mentioned it to others, they kept asking to borrow the tapes. So much so, that I decided to distill much of the NT wisdom I had gained during the process, down to a series of audio tapes. The first of these is: Windows NT™  - Tests, Tricks and Technique. I hope you find them as helpful, in your quest for knowledge. Help yourself, in this day of deadlines, and work schedules that leave almost no time for study. To see my future titles visit: The Technical Tape Network. For many useful links in the NT world see: The Gibson Digital Library  NT resource page.

About The Author    Other Photos

Graeme E. B. Gibson, CCP, MCSE,  MCP+Internet, is a nationally known speaker on networking topics. He started covering Windows NT when it was known as Windows Advanced Server, and did a number of presentations on NT during the five year run of his syndicated TV show Computers Today on Television. A graduate of  The University of New York, Gibson began his study of computers during his undergraduate days at Duke University.  In the 1980's he worked as Assistant Director of Academics for Flight Safety International, where he learned many advanced techniques for training highly technical subjects. This led to the formation of his own firm, Computer Training Corporation, which quickly earned a contract to write the training program for  The Office Automation Project at Kennedy Space Center. In 1985 Gibson was featured in a front page Wall Street Journal story for his book How to Build a Clone Computer. This Book later became a video tape program featured on four TV shows. In the 1990's Gibson wrote The Computer Repair Handbook and worked and taught for a variety of major firms including Braniff Air Lines, Kansas City Power and Light, and Compumaster / Skillpath^™ a division of Graceland College.

Today; Gibson consults, speaks and offers training for a variety of clients running Windows NT^™ and Windows 2000^™ products. He also owns an ISP,  HomeBBS/HomeISP and UsaStores, and WorldStores™ hosting hundreds of web pages in the Kansas City area. Part of his strength in teaching NT is the fact that he uses it in his web hosting service every day.  Please visit some of Gibson's clients: A All Digital Publisher,  Coin Arts, Consensus, Earth Dancing, Kahn Steel, Krohm International, Legal Eagle Ultralight, Rosemann & Associates, The Store and others.

How To Order  

How to order: The tape Windows NT™ Tests Tricks and Technique is currently shipping. Price is $79.95*  You may order by email to: techtape@yahoo.com. or using our secure web server or fax/mail  order form provided. Orders are shipping now.

* $5 S&H for USA orders.    Book will be in bookstores 4th Quarter 1999.

Phone orders should be directed to 1-800-329-0477 ask for item NT 27-7.

Since Mr. Gibson has finished this audio book, please vote here for the next title you would like him to produce. Gibson also has a NT tech support page for those seeking help with NT/2000.

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