Windows 2000 Readiness Assessment

What does Win2k mean to you?
What does it mean for your competition?

Microsoft Windows 2000^® is now in a generally well-received Beta 3 version, and will be shipping within months. It represents a dramatic departure from previous Windows NT^® incarnations, primarily by integrating Active Directory (AD), the long-awaited Microsoft directory service. Several hundred vendors have already pledged to write applications to AD APIs, leveraging the enterprise power of a central, LDAP-compatible directory in ways that promise to drastically enhance productivity.

If Windows NT is a strategic direction for your business applications, what are your plans for taking advantage of the new Win2k technologies? If you aren’t currently planning, is your competition?

While Win2k is still a few months from shipment, there are a great many steps that you should be taking, now, to prepare your IT environment to best take advantage of the new NOS. Some are technical, many are educational, but all are necessary to a enabling a smooth migration.

The CoreTech Consulting Group, Inc.^® Windows 2000 Readiness Assessment (WinRA) will evaluate your current Windows NT and support infrastructure, considering your business requirements and whatever advantages Win2k may present in meeting those requirements. CoreTech has derived several preparation methodologies from our significant experience will all Win2k beta versions. Using these methodologies, and industry best practices, CoreTech’s highly skilled consultants will draft an action plan that will enable your IT department to "pull the trigger" on Win2k as soon as your business dictates. We’ll help you avoid the "gotcha’s".

The following are some of the areas that CoreTech recommends you investigate now, to be ready for Windows 2000 when it ships:

• Review your domain architecture – they don’t go away in Win2k
• Examine NetBIOS applications for DNS compatibility
• Consider WINS, DNS and the underscore character
• Study domains, trees and forests, and plan their implementation in your environment
• Evaluate your NOS and OS revision and service pack procedures; standardize
• Examine your business needs to determine where Win2k Professional is needed, and where Win 9x will suffice
• Are you planning an Office 2000 migration? Are you planning to rely on any Office 2000 features that require Windows 2000?
• Organize migration teams that include all stakeholders, especially business users and those responsible for enterprise DNS
• Ensure that you have up-to-date network diagrams, and understand the business-driven data flow (this isn’t as well-documented as many think…)
• Identify hardware and software upgrades that will be required; ping on critical software vendors for migration dll’s.
• Study Active Directory, Kerberos, DNS, and other technologies…
• Migration Processes

The Windows 2000 Readiness Assessment applies CoreTech’s TOPP discipline^TM – Technology, Organization, Process, and People^TM – to determine what areas of your infrastructure are best prepared for Windows 2000, and what areas need further effort to make a Win2k migration as seamless as possible. What does Win2k offer? Where does it best fit in your organization? How should you prepare? CoreTech’s WinRA can help you find the answers.

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