This Week: NT4 Independence Day

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June 30, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: NT4 Independence Day >> Featured Topic: Contest participation -- help us help you! >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Paul Hinsberg Site Exclusives: >> Size, success figure in Windows innovation award >> What admins need to consider in advance of Yukon >> User gives Exchange Server 2003 high marks for scalability Tip of the Week: Handle a former employee's mail >> Site Highlights: SearchWin2000.com salary survey New Product and Vendor Guide New white paper: Controlling spam  From the Editor: by Marilyn Cohodas, Senior Site Editor U.S. Independence Day -- July 4 -- is just around the corner. But for those of you working in enterprises running NT4, another independence day of sorts begins tomorrow, July 1. Or more precisely, begins in Redmond, Washington. That's when Microsoft is "free" from providing unpaid hotfix and paid incident support for NT workstations. In another six months, the software giant will be liberated from customer support for Exchange 5.5. Then, in 18 months, it's bye-bye to NT4 server support. Hold the parade, sparklers and fireworks, please! I know many of you are just starting to think about a migration to Microsoft's newer (Windows 2000, Exchange 2000) or newest (Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003) operating system and e-mail platform. We want to know how you are preparing for end-of-lifecycle support for NT4 and Exchange 5.5. If 2003 is the year you are going to move off of NT4 and Exchange 5.5, what's your timetable? Are you armed against potential problems with Microsoft's Premiere support? If not, have you budgeted for extra support fees? Or are you just going to ride the transition out and take your chances that nothing major runs amok while you upgrade? Drop me a line and let me know your migration and support contingency plans. Marilyn P.S. If you are looking for some technical advice on migration strategies, check out our new series of Microsoft Live! webcasts. They're located in our webcast library.  Featured Topic: Contest participation -- help us help you! by David Pye, Assistant Editor It's out with the old, and in with the new -- this week marks the finale of another exhausting tip tug-of-war, and also sees the conclusion of the current IT Blooper challenge. But who will stand victorious as the proud new owners of an MP3 player and a USB storage device when the smoke finally clears? That, fair user, is where you come in. We need your votes to help wrap up June's tip and blooper competitions. We need your submissions to help kick start July's. Help us, help you, help us... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Paul Hinsberg, Author, Consultant and Technical Trainer, CRSD Categories: Active Directory and migration A SearchWin2000.com member asks: How can I check a domain user's SID history? Is it possible to copy SID history from one domain to other domain for migration without using ADMT? Click here to read Paul's answer or to ask him a question. Site Exclusives >> Size, success figure in Windows innovation award What does it take to win the SearchWin2000.com Innovator Award? A daunting task and a winning result. And the winner is... >> What admins need to consider in advance of Yukon In this interview, Microsoft's SQL Server product management director gives IT administrators a few tips on how to prepare their environments for the next pieces of Microsoft's database strategy. >> User gives Exchange Server 2003 high marks for scalability Microsoft appears to be making some strides in scalability with an upcoming release of its messaging server and its database software, says one early adopter. Tip of the Week: Handle a former employee's mail When an employee leaves an organization, and the administrator deletes the employee's mailbox, the Postmaster mailbox may be bombarded with Non-Delivery reports for mail messages that were sent to the former employees' e-mail address. Here's a simple idea that can help resolve this problem. >> Read the full tip.  Site Highlights SearchWin2000.com salary survey Are you making what you're worth? Find out by taking our salary survey. 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