Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released a massive set of documents and guidelines meant to help administrators lock down servers running the company’s new Windows Server 2003 operating system.In the meantime, Microsoft Corp. officials defended the fact that some of Microsoft’s own applications, like Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000, won’t run on Windows Server 2003, saying the development focus with Exchange was how to provide the best messaging and collaboration experience. However, Microsoft’s new Windows Server 2003 is opening up opportunities in the server landscape, particularly in the high-end area once dominated by Unix machines.
Locking Down Windows Server 2003; Interoperability Issues
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Blah blah blah… Who cares?
Invent some digital boogieman and then sell all sorts of fancy stuff to keep the boogieman away.
Sounds like something from one of those “Ernest” movies.
I am disappointed we didn’t get a weight on the documents. We need some objective measure to compare them to IBM and Sun.
How come “IE Security” is blocking pages by default in W2003, yet when I hit close instead of add, 90% of the time it is opening the pages anyway? (Try http://www.microsoft.com and http://www.google.com and see for yourself!)
Somehow Microsoft has got the assumption that all system admins are complete idiots and need to be protected from themselves. I eventually gave up and installed Opera.
Instead of blocking every site on the internet and not loading services, how about actually FIX the security issues. You know, invest some of that pile of money into fixing the security vulnerabilities that you know exist, yet, hope to keep hush-hush so you don’t need to spend any more money than necessary on this “investment” of yours.
They don’t think all sys admins (and computer users in general) are stupid, they just cater (wisely in my opinion) to the lowest common denominator. Considering the range of users they have, this is the right decision.
If a computer user is so smart, then they should be smart enough to figure out how to turn off / learn how to use those features which are not set as they would like by default. There is no way that Microsoft can come up with a load of default settings that everyone in the world is happy with.
I tried to turn it off. I went into Internet Options, tried to change the zone to Medium, clicked ok etc etc, and it still failed to load, so I went back, and guess what, it had gone back to High. I’m sorry, but when I tell the computer to do something, I want it bloody well done, I don’t want the operating system second guessing what I want.
I’ve given up and moved back to FreeBSD and KDE, atleast I am not hand held the whole and I get to make the decisions.