Moving to windows

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It's can't be worse than using Quickmail which is what we are stuck with at
the moment. Are you talking about the latest version of Entourage in office
2004?

Jim
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I couldnt comment on that. We use the MS management plugins for all MS
services. But again I would have to say that if your going to use MS
product then manage it with with MS product. I dont know if you ever got
the pleasure, but did you ever try using MS Outlook/Entourage for MAC
against an MS Exchage Server. Its not a thrilling adventure. But I am not
being negative towards Quickdns, I just havent used it in an MS network.

Best Regards,

Jacob Rascon
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Thanks Jacob.

So QuickDNS will manage 2003 DNS servers just like they do BIND servers?

Jim
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Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server products are pretty decent. The DNS
and DHCP are well tooled and from my hands on experience capable of handling
heavy demands. Currently we have Win2k DNS and DHCP managing 12000 users
and 1500 servers and our performance is fine. My thought on the issue is
you use what you have and Microsoft provides DNS and DHCP integrated into
its product and Active Directory. If you intend on using Active Directory
then you will want to use MS DNS and DHCP. "imho"

Best Regards,

Jacob Rascon
System Engineer
Systems Technology - Infrastructure

Jim Cobb <jim.cobb@tissue1.org>
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Management has decided that we are moving 100% to windows. Currently we
are 2/3rds Macs with windows machines under NT domains/WINS and we are
using using OS X dns servers with QuickDNS 4.5.1. My questions are:

-Should we use 2003 DNS or stick with Unix DNS?

-If we user 2003 DNS what is it's relationship with QuickDNS/Bind
version 8/9?

-While there are some instructions in the manual for changing Bind to
dynamic DNS (which we may have to do for the transition), the utilities
mentioned in the docs either don't seem to work or don't exist on the
servers (we are using 10.2.8).

-What are you guys using out there? My Microsoft people predict total
and abject failure unless we use the entire server2003 suite, including
DHCP etc. end to end unadulterated by Unix or "foreign programs" (which
I interpret as non-microsoft).

Thanks for any help with this-

Jim

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