The Sikh Geek

This is a plea from me to make my job easier and your server deployment smoother and to save you money as well! Don’t buy a PC with Windows XP Home for business use, pay the additional £50 that Dell charge you to upgrade to Windows XP Pro! This way, we won’t have that conversation with me having to say you’ll have to upgrade all your machines to Windows XP Pro, and you saying do I really need to do that?

So what’s the difference? The main one is that XP Home can’t be a member of a domain and do a domain logon. In simple terms that means you can’t create a user account at the server and then be able to login to any PC you have on your network and have all the associated rights and permissions set by the server. There are other important differences but this is a biggy!

Then, when you want that brand new Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 implementation, then things will just be so much easier!

Apparently, Microsoft Vista, will be available in even more flavours! Aaarrrggghhh!