TechTalks Event
Interoperability and Deployment of Windows 2000
with guest experts Richard A. Jones and Len Lanphar
December 9, 1999
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Will your campus be running Windows 2000 next September? On workstations? On servers? Is Windows 2000 really just 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? When should you consider deploying? What's involved in doing so? How does Windows 2000 fit into what we have on campus today? What security (authentication and encryption) services are offered? Is Kerberos supported?
This event's guest experts are from the University of Colorado, Boulder and from Carnegie Mellon University.
Guest Experts
Richard
A. Jones is with Information Technology Services at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1970, he has held a variety of ITS
roles and positions. For the last six months he has led the Rapid
Deployment Project (RDP) team, working with Microsoft to examine
Windows 2000 and plan its deployment on the Boulder campus.
Len
Lanphar is a systems programmer with Carnegie Mellon University's
Computing Services. Most recently, he has been working on Orpheus,
CMU's project to deliver a campus-wide support infrastructure for
Windows 2000 desktops and servers. His primary focus on this project
has been providing interoperability with existing Kerberos infrastructure
and developing tools to assist with software distribution and systems
management.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton
University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Co-Host Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and
relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
- A fairly recent Tech Talk entitled NT for Managers: How, When and Why Do I Do NT? with Mark Poepping and Ken Klingenstein may be of interest.
- Len's work with Kerberos at CMU's Project Minotaur is reported in this Web resource
- 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 infrastructure.
