“If you are an IT manager, you are either dreading the month of March next year, or are licking your chops in anticipation. This is because next March will see the launch of Microsoft’s highly-anticipated Windows .NET Server, and with it the whole gamut of upgrading issues for MIS—many of whom have only finished hardening their Windows 2000 or NT servers.” Read the article at NCasia.com.
Windows .NET Server: Completing the .NET Jigsaw?
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Still haven’t upgraded NT4 servers to W2K…esp w/ all the SSL mess in IIS5 when renewing certificates. Although I did upgrade NT4 servers at home…to FreeBSD. 🙂
many of whom have only finished hardening their Windows 2000 or NT servers.
Um..’hardening’ NT4? Ya mean installing patches every single week of the year? Who has time to harden these things past that mess.
there is now much less chance for the new IIS to be exploited as a conduit for bringing down the server.
Place your bets now!
I’m sure there are some nifty features in the new .NET family of servers but I’m not sure if there’s enough to justify running out and buying anything anytime soon. You can probably roll your own standard edition .NET server using Win2k + .NET Framework + Norton disk utilities + Basic Firewall. Oh yeah, and that all-important Windows Update service for those security-patches-of-the-day.
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We hardened our NT servers by installing the Linux patch. All of our NT servers are running it now. Great uptimes, fewer headaches. I suggest that everyone download it. There are other good patches too, FreeBSD and OpenBSD to name a few.
What benefits does it bring to the small enterprise (less than 50 seats, aka SBS arena)? When most SE primary concern is reliablity NOT features…
the banks still use DOS and 20 year old software.
Issue 7.
And just another troll who seems to think that Microsoft news isn’t news….
I suggest you learn how to be even half-way intelligent before thinking to post again, if you can’t, I suggest you leave.
RC1 looked great (all the features included and started by default…) and it was so easy to configure I thought I was in a dream…. but one thing bugged me… I could NOT use my cable connection….too me that is just a bit strange for a server O/S! anyway I had to wipe it and install XP b/c the cable guys didn’t know what to do with the O/S when they were trying to fix my connection(it had been buggy past few days) havn’t tried it since and doubt I will.
not woth the hassle
Works fine on my cable connection, actually serves as the router for my SOHO.
You are so funny.
NOT every news about MS is related with OS. The name of this site is OSNews. Not .Net news.
This is a technology news site… and also .NET plays a big roll in further Windows development.