From: "Frank Haber" 

>You really should[n't] be browsing or emailing from an NT4 machine these
>days...

Amen, brother.  Here's another hoot.

Say your NT4 machine is actually SBS 4.5.  Well, IE 5.5 is really the max
for these machines, since anything higher totally breaks the wonderful SBS
webmin-for-idiots stuff, and makes SBS an impossible-to-configure NT4S that
can't see any other domain controller, except via fragile temporary trusts.

Say you want to see what's going on, before you reformat the box to a spare
2000 Server license you have.  Everybody's recent tools are MSI installs,
even if they're just ZIPfiles with a couple of (or no) registry entries
required. Well, Microsoft's damn MSI installer program v2 (which everyone
tells me will run on NT4) is under WGA!!.  And neither the standard nor the
alternate validation methods work on SBS, because it identifies itself as
SBS, no NT4S. And the web pages where you do this wheel-spinning, fruitless
exercise don't render properly under IE5.5 - text overwrites itself.  So
you use Firefox or read the source to find out what you're supposed to do,
and then do it blind in IE, but it doesn't work and you can't read the
errmsg.

(I'm doing this to learn about domains, which I suddenly have to know more
about, on some PIII boxen a client donated to me.)  And I'm taking the time
to write about it because I think this is the Kafka-esque world that Mr.
Ballmer has sentenced us to.)

WMI 1.1 installs (.exe).  Thank the diety for Robocopy, ADMT and the migrator snapin.

(Don't assume from the above that I know a thing about AD.  That's for this summer.)

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