Nt Servers?

What to do? We still are a NT Domain and have a few NT Servers. A possible
move to 2000 Active Directory or 2003 Server is being talked about, but what
can we do to protect these NT Servers from harm, since no more patches will
be coming out?

"JBecht" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What to do? We still are a NT Domain and have a few NT Servers. A possible
> move to 2000 Active Directory or 2003 Server is being talked about, but
what
> can we do to protect these NT Servers from harm, since no more patches
will
> be coming out?

Do the same as you have always done. These have obviously been around a
while and have survived. In a properly configured and properly harden
server the patches aren't always required to make them safe. Most of the
things that a "fixed" by the patches are things that shouldn't be exposed to
begin with. It seems like about 75% of patches are for IE anyway and you
aren't supposed to be running around all over the web going to "shady"
places while sitting at the server. I have NT4 Servers that have been
running for 6 years and have never had any patch beyond installing SP6a,
they are doing perfectly fine. They do however have Symantec AV on them and
they are of course behind a firewall like they should be.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
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