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194203 2003-11-23 18:33:00 Anyone using/maintaining it? I'd be intererested in your experiences good or bad. mark.p (383)
194204 2003-11-23 19:48:00 Was on the Beta team.

Ran great, nice and fast in comparison to a default Win2K Server install.

The setup tools looked rather re-vamped.

No support for 16-Bit Ethernet cards meant I had to go out and replace my 2x 3Com Etherlink III cards and 2x SN 2000 Compatibile ones... That sorta sucked, but $80 later I had it all setup and going on my home-network :-) (Dont ask why I actually bought 4x NIC's, I only needed to have one... :p)

For a windows system, it was good, stable, but definately not for anything but being a server. I tried updating nVidia drivers which failed, and none of my soundcards worked...

Lets just say that if I wasnt a Linux user, Id say it was way better than all its predecessors, with a lot of extra Terminal Server functionality.

Hope this helps


Chill.

*Please note that I havent used it since rc3... around 11 months back*
Chilling_Silently (228)
194205 2003-11-23 22:23:00 > Anyone using/maintaining it? I'd be intererested in
> your experiences good or bad.

The bits what I have seen of it, it looks good.

The only problem which we had was trying to get Windows 2003 server to network :_| :(, we did Not had much luck getting it to networking and we gave up with it…..

Good luck with it, if you do install it. :)

Note: I think we where running the Enterprise Edition of Windows Server 2003.
stu140103 (137)
194206 2003-11-23 22:46:00 I'm maintaining a few production installs of 2003 and seems to run very well in a MS sense. Very stable, pretty much 2000 with bells, whistles and wizards. Works fine in a mixed ( Linux ) and Native ( Windows ) environments. The only downside I have run into so far is with the Domain and Forest Prep you need to do when you put it in a 2000 domain, it seems to break OWA for Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003 works great on it. Draggy (3005)
194207 2003-11-26 06:42:00 my experience was good, but there was two things i didn't like about it, it couldn't play games (but hey it's a server platform) 2. It's Microsoft (I'm a linux Lover Now.) ilikelinux (1418)
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