I've been using Windows as a network administrator for just over 6 years now. I've used NT4 servers, 2000 servers, and Windows 2003, and there has been a tremendous improvement with each version. There are still some things that drive me nuts in my job, though, and this is a chronicle of the top five.
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> The author of that article has one legitimate beef and
> that is the number of times necessary to reboot the
> server when patches have to be applied.
whatever. in your biased opinion. i think that the gripes make perfect sense. wasted resources **should be everyones problem, except may be lazy admins who dont care about an addtl application that might be comprimised. over-simplified marketing towards the nontechie means more holes and eventually more viruses.
> And for gods sake if you are going to have you
> entire company live in terminal server get
> citrix metaframe
this guy does run citrix. he said so in a different articles comments. i know for a fact that when you run many users on a terminal server MS recommends rebooting. there's a whitepaper on it on microsoft.com if you want to do the research. anyway, citrix itself is just one big dirty hack.
> The author of that article has one legitimate beef and
> that is the number of times necessary to reboot the
> server when patches have to be applied.
whatever. in your biased opinion. i think that the gripes make perfect sense. wasted resources **should be everyones problem, except may be lazy admins who dont care about an addtl application that might be comprimised. over-simplified marketing towards the nontechie means more holes and eventually more viruses.
> And for gods sake if you are going to have you
> entire company live in terminal server get
> citrix metaframe
this guy does run citrix. he said so in a different articles comments. i know for a fact that when you run many users on a terminal server MS recommends rebooting. there's a whitepaper on it on microsoft.com if you want to do the research. anyway, citrix itself is just one big dirty hack.