LISA-NT is about creating a community of system administrators from diverse computing environments and giving them the opportunity to discuss problems and share solutions. Submissions may address administration methodologies (i.e. "This is what I do and why") as well as implemented solutions (for example, "This is the tool I wrote in Perl or VBscript or any other language" or "This is how I administer X numbers of machines using tools Y and Z"). To facilitate these discussions, we encourage you to consider these topics:

Management

• Management of homogeneous Windows NT networks
• Management of NT in heterogeneous environments
• Large-scale or distributed NT management solutions and experiences
• Locally developed administration tools and techniques
• Models for centralized, remote or distributed management
• Reduction of the total cost of ownership for users and / or workstations
• Backups and restores
• User accounts

Sharing and Integration

• Integration of NT into complex, existing environments
• Integration of NT into Unix environments
• Integration of Unix into NT environments
• Use of cross-platform distributed services
• Remote access
• Laptops and PDA’s

Tools, experiences, and issues

• Successful use of third-party applications during daily administration
• Surveys of examined tools (good and bad) while implementing a solution
• Performance tuning and measurement
• E-mail management
• Central name service and browsing
• Software licensing, deployment, and upgrade management
• Security issues, including policies, education, response, and fixes
• The registry

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