Active Directory (AD) is a nice bit of technology—particularly for a version 1.0 technology—that has grabbed many headlines in the Windows 2000related literature in the past couple of years. But to work correctly, AD needs its own directory: the directory of servers and workstations that you know as DNS. Before you start your AD planning, you need to do your DNS homework—or the best-planned AD will run badly.Read more
Staying with Windows NT might have made sense to the administrators of small shops and single domains: Although NT Server isn't as sexy as Windows 2000 Server, when correctly installed and configured, NT Server is stable and reliable. Also, requirements to meet and concepts to learn clutter the Win2K migration path. However, DNS and Active Directory (AD) offer great benefits, and Microsoft has made the upgrade process as simple as possible. Now is the time for single-domain administrators to migrate their NT infrastructure completely to Win2K—DNS, AD, and all.Read more
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Cramsession News Flash:
Microsoft Makes Sweeping Changes To Its Certification Program ================================================================
(10/11/01) - Cramsession has learned that Microsoft will make a public announcement today that will radically change the shape of its existing certification program.
The biggest bombshell: MCSEs certified on the Windows NT 4.0 track will NOT be de-certified after December 31, 2001, as was previously indicated. Instead, Microsoft is going to recognize two distinct MCSE categories: MCSEs on Microsoft Windows 2000 and MCSEs on Windows NT 4.0.
Microsoft is also introducing a new certification, the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator, or MCSA. A new Microsoft exam is being created for this certification track, Exam 70-218, Managing a MS Windows 2000 Network Environment.
