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Security Issues with Windows 2000 Datacenter?
"My company is currently looking to cluster our SQL 7 servers. We're
considering Win2000 advanced server or datacenter. Around a month ago I sat in a meeting with our VP of IT, and the rest of the network admins I work with. Compaq tried to pitch their Windows 2000 Datacenter or Advanced Server solution. Here is the way the compaq people explained it:
You get datacenter only from an OEM. They look at the apps you're running
and customize a solution for you in their lab. Every datacenter implementation is different, and every datacenter CD is different. Since we would be using an EMC SAN as our clustered storage system they said our implementation would take special customization. They would have to contact EMC engineers and work together. Once you deploy it, the OEM monitors it. And you can't install any service packs or anything without getting an OK from your OEM. Any service packs are customized for your enviroment. The SLA guarantees a 99.999% uptime or your money back. Part of your money at least. Datacenter isn't an OS, but a program in their words.
Now here is the problem. With Code Red and Nimda, how do you patch IIS
running on datacenter in a timely manner? The reason IIS servers became
infected was because the admins didn't patch them in the first place. So say
a new worm comes out in a few months and it takes a few days for MS to
create a hotfix. Datacenter admins can't install it until they get their
customized copy from their OEM. And almost every 2000 server runs IIS for
terminal server. It can take a few days and in the meantime your servers
could be down. And I don't see the SLA covering a situation like this. Meanwhile you're explaining to your CEO how this $500K supposedly guaranteed solution is sitting dead in the water and you can't do a thing about.
Is there something I'm missing, or did Microsoft look over something like
this? Especially when they are trying to push Datacenter as 'Big Iron'."
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Ever hear of a firewall you FUD spreading cocksniffer...
Now here is the problem. With Code Red and Nimda, how do you patch IIS running on datacenter in a timely manner? The reason IIS servers became infected was because the admins didn't patch them in the first place. So say a new worm comes out in a few months and it takes a few days for MS to create a hotfix. Datacenter admins can't install it until they get their customized copy from their OEM. And almost every 2000 server runs IIS for terminal server. It can take a few days and in the meantime your servers could be down. And I don't see the SLA covering a situation like this. Meanwhile you're explaining to your CEO how this $500K supposedly guaranteed solution is sitting dead in the water and you can't do a thing about.
This entire discussion is pointless. No one uses Datacenter for web hosting. And wtf is "runs IIS for terminal server" supposed to mean? That doesn't even make any sense.
Heres the deal. If I can shove Windows 2000 Datacenter into my ass sideways, there is a security issue. If not, there is not. I have been able to determine that there IS A SECURITY PROBLEM WITH 12PACKS OF PEANUT BUTTER TOAST-A-CHEES. USE AT YOUR RISK. Thanks in advance.
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By Stephanie N. Marcucci, Hollywood.com Staff
HOLLYWOOD, October 19, 2001 -- Heather Locklear, whose upcoming episode of Spin City includes a lesbian scene with actress Denise Richards, says she enjoyed the experience.
"I saw [Denise] in Wild Things with Neve Campbell, and so I knew how sexy [she] was.
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