IT directors must start preparing to upgrade to Windows NT 5 now, according to Dr Simon Moores, chairman of the Windows NT forum. Dr Moores went on to recommend products which allow network managers access to NT 4 domain settings centrally as the...
Novell has already been knocked off the top spot in the file/print server market by Windows. Now that Windows NT is clearly under challenge from Linux, Active Directory may never become the force that Novell was fearing," he said.
The more confident users will brave the inevitable pitfalls of the early edition - while the majority will sit tight and wait until the OS has proven itself to be worth it. Server, priced at £950, provides basic file and print sharing as well as a...
Five years ago small companies would buy 5-user licences [of NetWare] for file and print services. Hardly glamorous but a licence to print money nonetheless. The inevitable consolidation onto one operating system meant larger networks and a bigger...
For example, when Windows Server 2003 is installed, non-essential services will be switched off by default, unlike Windows 2000 which switches on the IIS web server software by default even if the server is just to be used as a file and print server.
Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to put NT users on the upgrade path. Microsoft has admitted that customers keen to migrate from Windows NT Server 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 face a stumbling block in running SQL Server.