California Educational Data Processing Association
	The DataBus - Vol. 36, No. 5 August-September, 1996

July SIG Summary

The July 11th Special Interest Group meeting's theme was Microsoft NT Server and Microsoft BackOffice . Although Microsoft was unable to provide us with any of their technical people to answer questions, we were able to draw from the experiences of the CEDPA members present . All the technical questions that were raised were answered by one or more of the attendees who also talked about their first hand experiences. It was apparent from the discussions that in the last year Microsoft NT has made large inroads into the K-12 community.

The main topics discussed were:

• Setting up Microsoft NT servers versus Novell servers;
• Running NT on multiprocessor servers;
• Running internet services from Microsoft and Netscape on NT servers; <.li>Microsoft SQL server;
• Using NT to assign IP addresses to Windows 95 clients;
• Proxy Servers;
• Security issues and Firewalls; and
• General networking topics included ISDN, Frame Relay, Microwave, Radio, Routers, etc.

This was the last Northern SIG meeting for this year. Thank you to all that joined us and contributed to the discussions. See you at the fall conference.

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