Re: Vista and Fax with SBS 2000 by Neil
Neil
Mon Feb 19 07:34:28 CST 2007
Chris
of couse I can blame Microsoft !
I do expect Vista to be fully compatible with SBS 2000 - as this was a major
Microsoft product. They have updated their ISA client recently to prove they
have not forgotten ISA 2000 and Vista - therefore I do expect something as
simple as fax support to be there. We have a mixed environment of 2000, XP
and Vista clients.
I also now understand that recent subtle changes to the printer spooler
functions of a windows 2000 update may have led to my printing issues. I
reloaded my printer drivers and all is ok again - Microsoft should have
mentioned this as a potential issue for all Windows 2000 server users. (if
they are not supporting it any more - why the service packs ; )
I do understand why Microsoft encouraging updates to Server 2003 but by
deliberately making it difficult to use previously working products is the
wrong way to go. Maybe on a client level but NEVER on a server product - or
at least provide work arounds as they have done in the past.
Dont make it harder than it already is Microsoft - release a list of issues
between Vista and SBS 2000 (and all your server products) - to clarify and
assist companies who have invested in your products
Neil
"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:
> Well Neil, don't think you can blame this on Microsoft. Mainstream support
> for Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 ended sometime ago. There was never any
> plan to provide Vista Support for SBS 2000. You can join the Vista client
> to the domain manually, but you should not expect Fax client driver, or the
> Proxy Client if you're running Proxy 2.0 or the Firewall Client if you are
> running ISA 2000
>
> Support was released for SBS 2003 and Vista a couple of weeks ago.
>
> --
> Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
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> "Neil" <Neil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8E2024B0-81D2-4B5B-86FA-61F520125E6B@microsoft.com...
> > Well I have just spent a day testing MS Vista Business attaching to our
> > SBS2000 server.
> >
> > 1) getting occasional network errors when using Outlook XP !!!! Never had
> > the problem before with Windows XP - even had an error when I backed up to
> > a
> > PST file (at the very end of the creation) then the problem went away
> >
> > 2) Not hing I do can get the Vista Client to talk to the Fax server -
> > again
> > never a problem with windows XP
> >
> > 3) This may have something to do with Adobe Reader 8.0 but my PDF's now
> > print with fonts missing !!!!!! - I have an identical system with XP and
> > Adobe reader 8.0 and it prints perfectly. This is a very serious issue -
> > could it be the printer driver being incompatable with Vista ??
> >
> > All updates are done - come on Microsoft, this is unforgivable !
>