Microsoft TechNetPlus @Yale
Overview:
TechNet is a subscription service from Microsoft which
consolidates a huge library of technical information on all Microsoft
products as well as a wealth of other material such as evaluation
versions of Microsoft products, resource kits, system updates and
service packs, and much more.
Yale ITS AM&T holds a "server" license to TechNet, which
allows us to make it available to anyone within the Yale community with
a legitimate need to use it.
TechNet is in two conceptual sections. The first is the
TechNet "application", which provides an indexed search ability through
the entire library of Microsoft's technical documentation including the
knowledge base, white papers and some printed material such as the
documentation from the resource kits for Microsoft products. The
second is a large library of updates and software itself.
The full TechNet Plus distribution currently is made up of
approximately a dozen DVD's and CD's with an aggregate size of
approximately 28 GB .
Instructions:
- All material is hosted on the server
"babs.its.yale.edu". Connect to the share "TNDISKS". You will see
subfolders for each of the disks listed. Most
disks have a README or other file that describes their contents.
- To install the Technet browser application, execute \\babs.its.yale.edu\technet\SETUP.EXE.
- Access to most content is restricted. Access is
granted to IT staffers at Yale upon email request to: Ken Hoover
Highlights:
- Services
for UNIX has been updated to version 3.5 and is now FREE.
SFU provides many useful utilities for using Windows in a unix-centric
environment such as an NFS client and server and a unix shell.
For full information on SFU, see this link.
- The Security Updates DVDs
have every security bulletin and associated hotfix that
Microsoft has released going back to 1999.
Current
contents:
- Technical Resources
- Technical Information (Updated
May 2004)
- Downloads (Updated
May 2004)
- Service Packs
- Resource Kits
- Training and Extras
- Technet Extras
- Technical Training 2002-2003
- Technical Training 2003-2004
- Security Updates DVD 1
- Security Updates DVD
2
- Security Updates CD 3
(Updated
May 2004)
- Technet Plus Evaluations DVD 1
- Technet Plus Evaluations DVD 2
- Extras
- Windows Services for UNIX v3.5
- Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 and Project
Server 2003 Evaluations
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000
Enterprise Edition Evaluation
- Security Readiness Kit 4.1
- Betas and Evaluations
- Betas and Evaluations CD 1
- Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004
Beta 2
- Windows XP for 64-bit Extended Systems BETA
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security
Technologies RC1 (New
May 2004)
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