MSFT NT Y2Kok - NOT!

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I recevied this request for help...I'm not a NT guy... check out the link.

____________ the request ________

Our section is having difficulty resolving a Y2k compliancy issue with regard to the systems date provided by Microsoft products.

Please visit the link below to see a summary of our evaluations and findings to-date.

Any assistance you can offer is greatly appreciated.

http://www.state.oh.us/odhs/msnty2k/msnt01.htm

-- David Eddy (deddy@davideddy.com), December 08, 1999

Answers

Have them download and run a free audit from here: http://www.tir.com/~bretzke/free.html

Also have them download a free report from here: http://www.y2000c.com/rotrep.html

-- Brian Bretzke (bretzke@tir.com), December 08, 1999.


"Also, a momentary loss of power will result in an automatic reboot that again changes the default system date to M/d/yy."

I stopped reading there.

Apart from expecting him to start screaming about the SECONDARY CLOCK any moment, and his whine about MS's "proprietary" version of javascript (hint, d00d -- ALL versions of javascript are "proprietary"!) -- is the fact that he's trying to come off like the James T. Kirk of Ohio Gobbamunt Network Wizardry, but he can't be bothered to slap a steeenkin' UPS on his server? One of his biggest problems is rebooting caused by power glitches? That is what's generally called a clue.

Puhleez.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 08, 1999.


Typical DAS I.S. dept. quality! (I work for DAS, though not in Human Services, and not in I.S.) The State's I.S. depts' as so messed up it isn't even funny!

There's a serious lack of communication between departments that in one department the software remediation wasn't done until a Word Processor spoke up about Microsoft's Product Analyzer. Seems the I.S. boys upstairs didn't tell the secondary I.S. string that it was their responsibility to fix the software...

I shudder to think what else is happening in the other departments. BTW, I checked on those two names that the e-mail came from (I called the State of Ohio's operator directory), those two men do exist, in the departments indicated and phone numbers are available. This does NOT seem to be a hoax.

-- Youguess Who (Youguess_who@im.not.telling), December 08, 1999.


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