Windows NTools E-News[tm] Electronic Newsletter
Vol. 5, #6- Feb 9, 2000
Published by sunbelt-software.com since 1996 - ISSN: 1527-3407
'Immediate Notification Of Important Windows NT/2000 Events'
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This NTools E-NewsFlash (soon renamed to W2Knews) contains:
1) SEARCHNT.COM RENAMED TO SEARCHWIN2000.COM
2) FREE HALF-DAY WINDOWS 2000 DEPLOYMENT WORKSHOP
3) NT AND W98 MERGER PLAN CHANGES AGAIN
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Hi NT-ers,
This is a resend. Some of you may get this twice. The job
crashed after a few hours, so it had to be restarted! Here are
three short items that we did not have space for in the
newsletter last Monday, but the first two needed to get out
quickly for (your) time/planning reasons. Coming Monday you'll
get a full NTools E-News again!
Warm regards,
Stu
Email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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1) SEARCHNT.COM RENAMED TO SEARCHWIN2000.COM
If you're not planning on being at the Windows 2000 Expo and
want to stay informed, SearchWin2000.com (formerly SearchNT.com)
is your ticket. SearchWin2000.com is bringing you the most com-
prehensive coverage around. They have a totally Pro editorial
team, led by former Computerworld editor-in-chief, Paul Gillin,
and they will be reporting directly from the Windows 2000 Expo:
news, new product announcements and highlights of key sessions.
They will post all of this exciting news on SearchWin2000.com,
which will be updated hourly, in their special Expo section and
delivered through their daily news emails. So if you not yet
registered for their daily news emails now is the time to sign
up, absolutely free at http://www.searchnt.com
And on February 14, SearchNT.com will officially be renamed to
SearchWin2000.com to coincide with Microsoft's launch of Win2K.
Like I said in a few weeks ago, SearchWin2000.com is the Web's
Windows NT/2000-specific portal - a great source for practical
info on both NT and Windows 2000. I like this site a lot, and
it gets better every week.
SearchWin2000.com will continue to bring you the same NT and
2000-specific news, editorial insight, technical tips and special-
ized search capabilities that you have come to rely on from
SearchNT.com. I suggest you register (free) right away for the
daily news emails and don't be left in the dark on what's going
on at the Windows 2000 Expo at http://www.SearchNT.com and
receive that useful Free Report: Tips and Hints for Migrating
to Windows 2000.
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2) FREE HALF-DAY WINDOWS 2000 DEPLOYMENT WORKSHOP
Fastlane Enterprise Directory Management Solution Series:
In 75 Cities across North America and Europe
With the upcoming launch of Microsoft Windows 2000, you won't
want to miss FastLane's latest workshop: Plan and Implement A
Successful Windows 2000 Deployment. In a half-day you'll receive
a field-tested and proven, step-by-step approach that enables
you to remove many of the "time-to-benefit" barriers, achieve
a lower total cost of ownership, and deliver a higher return
on your Windows 2000 investment.
In these workshops, the following topics are discussed:
* Dramatically shorten time to Windows 2000 benefits
* Receive a tested and proven five-phase plan for W2K roll-outs
* Develop an effective policy and security enforcement initiative
* Ensure a smooth upgrade that minimizes disruption to end-users
and Help Desk personnel
* See a live demo of a migration to Windows 2000
* Learn how to consolidate file and print servers
* Get practical, no-nonsense information for planning a complex
domain reconfiguration project
* Anticipate and eliminate key issues and challenges at each
stage of your Windows 2000 deployment
Workshops are being held in locations across North America,
starting February 9th, and in Europe, starting March 14th, 2000.
For more info or to register in North America go to
http://www.fastlane.com/index.cfm?oa=sb1_0001a
Or call toll free 1-877-809-2202.
Outside North America go to
http://www.fastlaneglobal.com/email01.cfm?oa=sb1_0001a
Or call +44 (0) 1752 301772
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3) NT AND W98 MERGER PLAN CHANGES AGAIN
Bill G's plans were always to unify the W95/98 and NT code, but
the backward compatibility problems with that made them decide
to wait with that last year. Now the situation has turned around
again and a new project called 'Whistler' is on its way. It is
due out in 2001, and will graft Microsoft's consumer desktop,
which is Windows 9x-based, onto a Windows 2000 based kernel.
This combined O/S will still have different flavors (for business
and consumers) but they will be built with the same kernel. That of
course makes it a lot easier to control the process of updates and
upgrades. More over, applications only need to be compiled and
verified just _once_ so this makes MS much more efficient.
One wonders a bit if merging these two Operating Systems was pushed
to the front burner to create a barrier against splitting MS up in
separate businesses, one for W95/98 and the other for NT/2000.
I will keep you up to date on the further developments.
That's all for the moment!
Warm regards,
Stu
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