I am in the process of getting ready to install 2003 server on my PDC and BDC and I am wondering if there are any common problems that I should be aware of, or anything else that may be useful in the transition.
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I am in the process of getting ready to install 2003 server on my PDC and BDC and I am wondering if there are any common problems that I should be aware of, or anything else that may be useful in the transition.
We've done "layover" installs without any problem. I just recommend a nice sold backp before moving ahead.
The only issue we ran into is that 2003 automatically turns on "complicated password" requirements which we were not expecting and it screamed at all our users until we disabled that.
I also found the Internet Explorer default security settings to be a pain and took that off.
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Originally Posted by drewmaztech
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Yeah, I can see how that would cause some pissed off users.
Do I have anything to worry about as far as clients authenticating? Keep in mind that I have quite a bit of OSX clients. Does anyone know if there are any issues with it?
OSX? I didn't even know any of that stuff was still hanging around.
I would really recommend testing that out in a seperate network if you can.
If you have 2000 configured to work fine, the layover of 2003 doesn't really make any changes to the network permissions. It's mostly Active Directory changes and additions.
And just being aware that when you create a new directory or share, it gives MINIMAL access by defaults and you have to grant user perms to a resource. A little opposite from previous microsoft servers. More like the Novell way.
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Uh, OSX isnt that old, hell 10.3.4 just came out
OK OK, I just havn't worked with it in ages.
Come to find out, a lot of ATM's run OSX.
You have a somewhat twisted view of time, Macintosh OSX was just released in 2000 and OS X.3 was just released last yearQuote:
Originally Posted by drewmaztech
..I havn't worked on any Mac product in ages..
and I don't really pay much attention to what that side is up to.
Well, being Dir of IT for a computer/graphic design school, I have to know and use both sides of the fence. Heck I even have 1 mac, dual cpu G4 with 1.67GB ram :)Quote:
Originally Posted by drewmaztech