[14] in winnt
winnt: possible support documents to deliver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Wed Jun 4 19:49:56 1997
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:29:09 -0400
To: winnt@MIT.EDU
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>
Folks,
In the recent survey, we asked users and IS staff what sort of documents
they'd like to see available to provide support for Windows NT. I think
the starting point is the basic set from Win95. Then there are features of
NT that are new and that need to have the "using this feature at MIT"
aspect written up.
I'm not sure how to go about deciding whether a suggested topic is worth
writing about. Perhaps the collective wisdom of this group is enough of an
expert opinion. Which of these are necessary for Individual users? Which
are already sort of rftm? I might ask the question -- if we were to write
just two _new_ documents (not previously part of Win95 support) as part of
NT support, which would they be?
Also, has any work on any of the NT versions of anything already been
started? If the original author doesn't have the time this month, I
volunteer to help crank out a draft or finish what was begun. Is it
accepatble for me to rewrite the some or all of the docs for NT, and pass
it by the pubs folks and others for review? I don't want to "take over"
but I want to facilitate getting this stuff out without treading on turf...
Let me know what you think. It's clear from the users that our web
document presence is much of what they think of when they imagine IS
support of them.
Thanks!
Rob
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Existing Win95 documents
- IS position on its role at MIT, for administrative customers, should i
migrate, etc.
- MITnet and NT
- Tether and ...
- Eudora and ...
- Kerberos and ...
- practical Hardware requirements
- known Software incompatibilities
- upgrading to it
New document ideas, in no particular order:
1. - secure Telnet and ... (editor's note: I'm sure we can say that this
exists now in the host explorer pages Susan recently did, right?)
2. - the Well Tempered PC -- what programs should I use on my MIT NT PC,
and where do I get them?
3. - Installing NT -- a run-through of the multi-floppy boot and install
process
4. - Migrating from Windows 3.11 to NT -- how to upgrade an existing 3.11
machine to NT, how to migrate files from an old 3.11 PC to a different PC
now running NT.
5. - Customizing a pre-installed NT -- for the person who buys a Dell with
NT from the MCC and needs to "localize" it to MIT standards of security and
so on.
6. - Making your NT workstation More Secure -- FAT vs NTFS, NetBeui vs
TCPIP, users and groups, the administrator account vs power users with
administrator privileges, ...
7. - Managing your Workstation -- How to generate and use DOS boot disk to
setup workstation with "clean" MIT NT configuration.
8. - Guide to NT for Unix sysadmins -- what are procedural equivalencies,
what unix-style tools can I get for NT, how to interoperate with rsh, nfs,
etc....
9. - Using the Appletalk protocol -- for printing, for file-sharing, can i
be a client in a Mac network?
10. - Setting up the Internet Information Service or Peer Web Services to
get ftp, serve to the web, etc.
11. - What's in the Control Panels
12. - What's in the Administrative Tools menu
13. - Troubleshooting NT error messages
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Rob Smyser
I/S Computing Help Desk, MIT, 11-226, 617.253.1358
smyser@mit.edu
