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Mining NT Information, which basically set out to list database-type web sites;
Online References (which covered mainly information about Microsoft's Developer's Network);
using Microsoft Support Online; and
the various NT Web Forums (versus NNTP newsgroups) available online.
I've added, and unfortunately had to subtract, various links from those articles over the year, as sites have come and gone. But overall, these sites, and those listed here in the Links section, have been a good basis for keeping NT installations up and running as well as possible.
It can be a true PITA, however, to keep up with all those sites all the time. For example, when Microsoft Support made its "big change" last year, for a long time you couldn't query the Knowledge Base for the most recently added articles by product (eg, "Windows NT").
Even now, if you use query the Knowledge Base for new articles by product within the last few days, you'll get an entirely unmanageable list of every single article with the product's keyword in it that's been updated in any means (probably including spell checks). Which, with Windows NT, includes many application updates as well as the pertinent "new issues" articles you might be seeking.
So ever since it became available, I've been using the Microsoft Support Newsletters, as mentioned in the NT News Tidbits article a few weeks ago. They seriously help manage the massive amount of new KB articles that pop up in a week's time, as they provide links directly to the articles (like a search would) and include a brief description of the issue that's more meaningful than the Search Results from the Knowledge Base Query.
Desktop Engineer's Junk Drawer
The Desktop Engineer's Junk Drawer is a new newsletter that I read about in the newsgroups last week (actually, it's been active for months, as seen by the archives on the site).
One thing I like about archives is that you don't really have to subscribe to see the newsletters: you can bookmark the site, then read them or not at your leisure.
And, possibly more importantly, you can decide whether or not you even want to have the thing sent to your e-mail address every day/week/month.
This is a monthly HTML newsletter subtitled
I like it. I wouldn't choose it as my only newsletter, by any means, but it generally seems to have useful, maybe even oddball, tidbits that you wouldn't find anywhere else. No real "tips," but lots of links to useful tools, juicy rumors, and interesting reading.
