1. World of Windows, Policies and Concerns Is it only getting worse?

2. Topic Areas Status Review? Software licensing Domains, Forests, and Federated Forests Exchange – driving forces Software Deployment concerns

3. Status ~60 schools subscribed to win2000- hied@lists.Stanford.EDU Community Site MSR at TechEd Time for a new survey?

4. Software Licensing Select Agreement No more supplying OS to personally owned home machines? “Campus Agreement” Being sold to departments Eliminating loophole used to support classrooms, clusters, and initiatives

5. Domains, Forests,and Federated Forests Security flaw deprecates use of single forest containing multiple domains The cure- Federated Forests But you’ll need.NET Server based Domains How does all of this influence your decisions to establish trust?

6. Exchange – driving forces “We want to control our email locally” “We need Exchange to support Blackberries”

7. Exchange - blockers Still no Kerberos support May prevent deployment at sites using cross realm authentication One Exchange Service per Forest Prevents departments from using Exchange to seize local control vs. prevents departments from joining campus domain

8. Software Deployment Concerns MSI is a failure? Visual Studio.NET cannot be deployed via GPs Hotfixes not available as MSI, can’t be assigned 3 rd parties ignoring the technology Microsoft no longer mentioning the technology

9. Software Deployment Microsoft’s alternatives Windows Update Corporate Update SMS Every product group free to develop their own installation technology