TechTalks Event
NT for Managers: How, When and Why Do I Do NT?
with guest experts Ken Klingenstein & Mark Poepping
May 27, 1999
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Windows 2000 is really the next version of NT (NT 5.0). Does that mean that all WinTel machines will run Windows 2000, which is to say that everyone will run NT because there will be no other operating systems from Microsoft? When will Windows 2000 be available? When should users consider deploying? What's involved in doing so? What are some of the interoperability issues? (UNIX, NetWare, and Mac) How does Win 2000 make that easier? Using SMS, it is possible to push software to desktop computers on a network. This should allow central admin to manage what is on university PCs. Is this is a good idea? How would it work? Will users accept this infringement of their freedom on their own PCs? How does one coordinate the pushes? Does Win 2000 crash? What features try to ensure reliability and stability? Why choose Windows NT (or Windows 2000) over Unix as a server operating system? Why choose Unix over NT? NT over Novell?
Guest Experts for this Event
Ken
Klingenstein, the Director of Information
Technology Services at the University
of Colorado at Boulder, has been a guest expert for TechTalk
before. Ken, a member of CREN's Board of Trustees, has been active in national and regional
networking since 1985, serving as a member and former Chair of the
Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee (FNCAC), member of the
Board for Farnet, now Net@Edu
and as co-founder of Colorado Supernet, among others. He has testified
before Congress on topics in networking. He was formerly on the
Board of Directors for CAUSE (now consolidated with Educom as EDUCAUSE)
and serves on the Coalition
for Networked Information's Steering Committee. He regularly
presents papers and seminars to many professional networking and
computing groups.
Mark
Poepping is Technical Director for Systems
and Network Development in Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon
where he has responsibility for technical leadership in the development
and evolution of the com- puting infrastructure on campus, including
the Andrew computing en- vironment and Project
Orpheus, engineering a Windows2000 environment for full support
within the Andrew environment on campus. Prior to joining Computing
Services, Mark managed the Computing Facilities Systems group at
the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He joined SEI in 1985
and served variously as engineer, architect, and manager, coordinating
several major technical and organizational improvements over the
years. Prior to joining CMU, he was an operating systems engineer
with AT&T Bell Laboratories working on mainframe UNIX implementations.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (at left, top), Manager of Academic Applications
at Princeton University is TechTalk's Technology Anchor. Co-Host
Judith Boettcher (at left, bottom) is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, they'll ask the really tough questions—and relay
the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Special Offer
As part of this webcast, CREN is offering a special Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) training package that includes four of CBT Systems Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) training courses, plus two resources from Microsoft - the beta version of Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system, and a CD Resource Kit on Windows NT.
Background & Resources
- Ken and Mark have prepared a slide show that discusses why it is that higher education's needs and interests with regard to this technology are quite different from the rest of society's needs and interests.
- CMU's Orpheus Project is engineering a Windows2000 environment for full support within the Andrew environment on Carnegie Mellon's campus.
- CU's Boulder RDP effort is participating in the Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program for Windows2000. This project, with substantial support from Microsoft, will allow the campus to plan a comprehensive architecture design and plan for deploying Windows 2000 for the campus.
- MIT's Pismere Project will create a scaleable, centrally manageable environment of public Microsoft Windows 2000 workstations, and possibly servers, that is an extension of the existing MIT computing infra- structure.
