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Planning for Windows 2000 in Higher Education: Some Starting Questions and Answers

with guest experts Paul Hill of MIT and David Bodnar of the University of Colorado�

November 30, 2000

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A year ago, in an earlier Tech Talk, we asked "Will your campus be running Windows 2000 next September?" Well, is yours? Some campuses are. Most are in various stages of preparation and implementation. Our guest experts for this event have been working on Windows 2000 in a hands-on way on their campuses. They had a lot to say about such question areas as: What is W2K? Which are the W2K issues that will most affect our institutions? What's been done and is being done by other institutions? What are the benefits of W2K? Are there upgrade issues? Which should be your next steps?

Guest Experts

Paul Paul B. Hill is a Senior Programmer Analyst on MIT's Project Pismere, MIT Information Systems' Windows 2000 deployment project. Paul is also a co-leader of MIT's Kerberos development team, a member of Internet 2's Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE), and an IETF participant. He is also a contributing author to Osborne / McGraw-Hill's Windows 2000 Security Handbook.

David_Bodnar David Bodnar is with Information Technology Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He became involved with the Windows2000 deployment effort earlier this year during the transition from planning and testing to production. His primary role is to coordinate the deployment effort and develop resources to provide ongoing support.

Co-Hosts

Howard_Strauss   Richard_Jones
Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.

Our guest co-Host this week is Richard A. Jones (above, right), of the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was one of our guest experts on a Windows 2000-related Tech Talk a year ago. Together, Howard and Richard will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.

Background & Resources

One of the very best ways to get background on an issue is by reviewing the audio, transcript, and resource list from any related Tech Talks which have been previously broadcast and are now fully archived. In December of 1999, we produced Interoperability and Deployment of Windows 2000 with guest experts Richard A. Jones and Len Lanphar. It remains a very useful reference.

LabMice.net aims to be "the definitive online resource for IT Professionals who deploy, manage, and support Microsoft Windows 2000 products and services." There really are a lot of good resources there, as well as at Windows 2000 Magazine Network.

The following is the most complete list we know of, of higher education institution resource and project pages relating to planning for and deployment of Windows 2000:

David recommends the following Microsoft resources: Paul Hill is a contributing author to the Windows 2000 Security Handbook.