Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

Andreas Borchert wrote:
> The main problem with software from Microsoft is scalability.
>

Not to mention manageability. The company I'm with just finished rolling out NT accross one of their divisions to replace Netware. 60 - 70 sites, 5800 user accounts 100+ servers (file and domain controllers.

Looking back on it I'd have to say it was a bad move.

From a remote site connected with a 56k line it can take 4 minutes just to get into user manager, and almost as long after each change before you can go on to the next. Seems MS is not accustomed to thinking outside the local LAN. WAN manageability is the pits.

After making some changes to 8 of the remote servers they needed to be rebooted. Tried to use the remote system shutdown command. 6 of them hung, and required on-site intervention to get them going again.

Strange things started happening with some of our accounts, like account opperators not being able to administer some accounts. Of course you can't acutally look at the account database. So we call Microsoft. After many phone calls they say "We can't tell for sure, but it sounds like maybe your security account database is corrupt." Their solution: you may need to re-create your entire domain from scratch! Not only do they not have a tool that can repair a damaged database, they don't even have a tool that can tell you for sure that it's damaged.

I could go on ...

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Dan McDaniel
dbm7w_at_mindspring.com