1. Windows NT 4.0 Demo

2. Windows NT: Brief overview Operating system for pentium and alpha based machines Multi tasking operating system Multi-account operating system –Potentially truly multi user with Windows NT Terminal server

3. Benefits of Windows NT4 More reliable/stable than Windows 95/98 Provides more security than Windows 98 Microsoft claims it is faster for certain tasks than Windows 98

4. But... More resources than Windows 95/98 –NT4: Pentium with 16 meg (32 meg recommended) –Windows98: 486/66 with 16 meg Hardware compatibility is an issue For differences between NT and 95 see –http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/eval/ProductC ompare/Windows95/techdiff.asp

5. Different flavours of NT4 NT4 Workstation NT4 Server –Includes services such as –file & printing services –web services –application services –management services

6. Windows NT4 Workstation Demo The basic user interface –Similar to Windows 95/98 Creating users Setting privileges

7. Logging in On starting the machine confronted with a log in screen Need a valid user name and a password On logging in you get your own directory and application settings (like UNIX) Once logged on it appears like Win 9x

8. User Interface

10. Creating users and setting privileges

11. Scenario

13. Step 1 Log in as administrator Create user “johnw” Create user “fred” Create groups for software developers Create groups for software testers Add users to groups

14. Starting the User Manager

15. Creating a new user..

16. Creating a new user

18. Results of creating a user..

19. Creating groups

20. Creating a group..

22. Results of creating groups..

23. Step 2 Log in as Darryn Change permissions for Software Development Folder

24. Open properties for folder..

25. Properties for the folder

26. Security properties for the folder

27. File permissions

28. Result of adding properties for Testers and Developers

29. Comments Added groups and users for a local machine –Can set groups and users for a domain Altered file permissions for a directory –File permissions can be set for individual files Altered file permissions on a local machine –Can alter permissions on a network file server

30. The future: Windows 2000 Different versions include: –Windows 2000 Professional –Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition –Windows 2000 Advanced Server –Windows 2000 Datacentre Server Microsoft’s recommended spec –Pentium 300 and 64 meg of RAM Merging of Windows 98 and NT