Subj : Win2k ban?
To   : Richard Town
From : Steven Horn
Date : Wed Nov 06 2002 07:06 pm

Richard Town (2:254/235) wrote to All at 07:56 on 05 Nov 2002:

 RT> UC SANTA BARBARA BANS TWO VERSIONS OF WINDOWS
 RT> Campus officials at the University of California at Santa Barbara
 RT> issued a policy statement to students banning the use of Windows
 RT> 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems on the school's network.
 RT> The statement blames the two operating systems for "hundreds of
 RT> problems," some of which required temporarily shutting down the
 RT> campus network. An official from the university said that most of
 RT> last year's security lapses were traced to the 200 computers--of a
 RT> total of 3,800 on the network--that were running Windows 2000. A
 RT> spokesman from Microsoft said the university's problems stemmed
 RT> from poor network management rather than any problem with the
 RT> operating systems. The university will still allow certain systems
 RT> to run Windows 2000, but only in "controlled" environments where
 RT> university officials can be certain that the security settings are
 RT> configured properly.

I'm inclined to agree with Microsoft.  We have at least 50 systems running 
Wiundows 2000 at my employer's workplace and it does not have these problems.
 
Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn@yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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