Windows Server 2003?

4dhosting · 20th February 2003

What's everyones opinion? With it due out April 24th (I think...)

edb49 · 22nd March 2003

Finally MS cut their pricing... there's an ISP copy that will be around £250

jonny_b · 23rd March 2003

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Originally posted by edb49@Mar 22 2003, 01:10 PM
Finally MS cut their pricing... there's an ISP copy that will be around £250

True...but its only a single site licence!

markcastle · 24th March 2003

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Originally posted by dbarker@Feb 20 2003, 10:58 PM
What's everyones opinion? With it due out April 24th (I think...)

Love it. Been using it on one of my desktop machines for a number of months now.... very stable.
Cheers

richard · 24th March 2003

I've had a glance at it,,, and dare I say its very "HELM" like in its approach at configuring the server with its "specific" roles

markcastle · 24th March 2003

A reboot or shutdown always makes me laugh... you have to give it a reason / description as to why you are doing that. Cracked me up when i first saw it.

richard · 24th March 2003

LOL, forgot about that one,,, bet some admins put some useful comments in that one

Andrew · 24th March 2003

I'm going to have to see this now purley on the shutdown dialog

othellotech · 24th March 2003

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Originally posted by richard@Mar 24 2003, 02:42 AM
LOL, forgot about that one,,, bet some admins put some useful comments in that one

some *fun* answers get sent to M$ - especially as one of the options they "missed" was "unplanned , o/s crashed again!" !

IIS starts quite well locked down, UDDI was a pain to get installed and the "web" versions wont allow you to install SQL server etc on the same box , so although thye might have "Tried" to do a cut price version, it's really only usefull for running webservices for .net development

Overall the enterprise version seems very stable, although we still have to reboot it at least once a week ...

edb49 · 24th March 2003

I don't understand why people are so against the shutdown justification. Good idea if you ask me, and I record things manually when I reboot anyway.

othellotech · 24th March 2003

people are "against" it as
(1) it tries to s/mit things to m$ after reboot,
(2) it add another "level" to a shutdown - yet *MORE* questions to ask,
(3) AFAIKR it disconnects pcanywhere/vnc *BEFORE* letting you answer meaning you have a stuck machine
(4) it interferes with ups/shutdown s/ware that isnt expecting it requiring yet more upgrades/patches etc and retestig ...

all so m$ can say "96% of planned shutdown are nothing to do with us" in their next wave of adverts ...

4dhosting · 24th March 2003

I've had it running for about a month now and I say it's very stable.

However that shutdown justification thing annoys me no end! I just want to reboot and have to type something out ... End up normally putting 'r' into it.

I think the server 'roles' aren't too bad an idea as it stops some admins from installating a whole load of stuff that isn't needed if the server is just a web server or a DNS server.

Have to wait for the final release before making a final decision but I think that Win2k3 hosting will on the site fairly soon after it's launch (Assuming that Helm works with it ... have to test that one!)

edb49 · 26th March 2003

Helm has been tested as working with Windows 2003 Server