Realtime Windows Server Opinion Question #1: What Windows Server product do you rely on most?
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What Windows Server product do you rely on most?
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Hey,
The Server Product I rely on is Windows 2003 Standard (common) and Enterprise Edition (SQL Server cluster)
Service pack levels are 1 and 2.
Regards,
Marc
Posted by: Marc Dieters | August 1, 2007 2:42 PM
Hmmm,
Server product I reply on most. Well of course it is Windows 2003 Std, and Citrix PS4.0.
But the most useful tool on both of this has to be the Command line and VBScript. The GUI's are good but the command line is faster... Or is it just the old school in me?
Stuart.
Posted by: Stuart | August 3, 2007 6:01 AM
Interesting question. Server product I reply on the most - proberly my Backup system, specially with some of our users. lol...
Posted by: Stuart | August 3, 2007 6:07 AM
Another product I reply on is not so much a server product but a way of being informed of errors, and that is my email client.
With everything set-up correctly out Compaq/HP agent inform of of when things are about to go pear shaped. We can then react and get things sorted or failed over. Before management find out and roast us...
Stuart.
Posted by: Stuart | August 3, 2007 6:10 AM
In my company, we mostly deal with windows server 2003 products, but clients are windows xp. Not yet upgraded to vista and may not in a long time!
Posted by: Robert Okai | August 6, 2007 2:18 AM
Does the OS that VMWare sits on count? If so then ReadHat Linux is very important as we have over 200 Guest server (all W2k3) running on ESX Server.
So it W2K3 or RedHat the most important here?
Posted by: Stuart | August 6, 2007 10:11 AM
Ha! That's a great question. If you're a VMware ESX shop, you still rely on Windows. But *everything* relies on RedHat. Maybe is this how the Linux folk are going to take over the world?
Posted by: Greg Shields | August 6, 2007 10:56 AM
True. But with Virtualisation becoming the norm in business and people like Microsoft building it into Windows W2K8. Does these mean there will be more Linux guys looking for work?
Posted by: Stuart | August 7, 2007 2:41 AM
CMD prompt is what I rely on most as it is my swiss army knife of troubleshooting and administration.
Is it a server product? yep and it is bundled with every server and workstation OS that I know of. You would all cry if you did not have it.
Like little babies who had candy stolen from them ;)
Posted by: Steve Gabriele | August 8, 2007 6:46 AM
I'm making the assumption that product also means tool. I rely on the Sysinternals Process Explorer. If I'm logging into a server, it's usually because I have to troubleshoot something. I would say that 95% of the time I use Process Explorer for resolving issues.
Posted by: John Horning | August 8, 2007 8:38 AM
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Posted by: Anannaraiday | September 10, 2007 8:27 PM