Safe as houses (Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0)

Member Name: Klaatu

Product:	Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
Date:	24/06/00 (66 review reads)
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Advantages: Powerful server based network OS

Disadvantages: You need 5 users minimum to make it viable

Windows NT 4 Server has been with us for a number of years now and yhis product is maturing nicely.

Critics of it will say that it is insecure and cumbesome to manage.

It is neither of these things. It is insecure because the people administering it have'nt tightedned up security - by default, NT is quite 'open' but it can be secured with relative ease. It is easy to administer providing your initial planning and installation went well. Basically a badly designed network plan makes for a difficult to administer network.

Server comes will all kinds of goodies to make administering a computer network easy. It has DNS server built in, DHCP to make TCP/IP address problems a thing of the past, tools to allow you to easily control an entire network of servers.

Internet Information Server also comes free with NT server, so if you want to not only create your own website but host other peoples web sites, then NT is for you.

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