It had to come to an end...............

Windows 2000 server support from Microsoft has now ceased as of today, July 13th 2010. 

Windows 2000 was seen as a massive leap from its predecessors, NT4, and Windows 3.x eeek !, oh and lets not forget the DOS range, doesn’t it all still run on dos ? ;-)

Microsoft were under an enormous amount of pressure in 1998 to release “Microsoft Windows NT 5.0”, so it was rushed to market, some of the new features in Windows 2000 were half finished, but it was stable.  A lot of the features that were originally planned were left out, and were later released in bit form across service packs or in the next general release. 

Likewise some of the features that did make it in, such as Active Directory, didn’t work very well !  Active Directory (this isn’t something that has been there from day one) was Microsoft's first directory offering to the market place in 1998, oh, but Novell and other vendors were there first.

So the BDC’s, and the PDC’s (the real PDC’s, not the cheap imitations that we are now used to) had come to an end, and Microsoft’s Windows 2000 was launched to much, well disappointment!  (thats the community for you!)

I certified in Windows 2000 immediately, and could see its benefits, and its shortfalls.  Ive been happily supporting it ever since, and will continue to do so “Rambo” style, on my own, without the support of Microsoft going forward.   I will of course try and migrate and upgrade where possible to Microsoft newest operating system, Windows Server 2008 R2, which in my opinion is their best so far.  Come to think of it, Windows Server 2003 is a very close second!

So all hail Windows 2000, its been nice knowing and working with you for all these years.  If you are still using it, from today onwards, if you run into a problem, cross your fingers and call us, we might be able to help!

To view more info regarding this please visit http://support.microsoft.com/ph/1131#tab0