Another freebie, this time from an unlikely source... Microsoft.

[Morbid]

Microsoft is offering Exhange Server 2003 Beta 2 for download. I know this may not interest some of you, but read on. They're also offering the option of ordering an Exchange Server Beta 2 Kit on CD for the cost of shipping/handling and any applicable taxes. In the kit, you'll also get Microsoft Office 11 Beta 1 as well as Windows .NET Server 2003 RC2, which rumor says has been renamed (yes, again) to Windows Server 2003.

Visit the Exchange Server 2003 Beta 2 (http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/ti/beta.asp) page on Microsoft's site for more information.

[ssspy007]

i would say thats a great deal for office (not that i am fond of office though) as long as microsoft doesnt put a time limit on it ?

[tsintse]

Edited

You can easily be removed by suggesting something like that...do a forum guideline search.

Jon
Forum Moderator

[eli]

Hey Morbid, keep 'em coming man! This free software stuff is awesome.

[Army_Of_1]

Yes, but if you think about it, the 365 day time period is a *long* time ... in 365 they will have another update to download which will give you another 365 days I believe and by then, you can switch back to your old OS

[skou]

Wasn't exactly free, cost me a whole $7.30, not that I'm complaining.

steve

[ManOfKnight]

what exactly is a .NET server 2003??? is that like Win 2k Server?

[The Coolest]

Like is the key word, as this one is much newer and based on WinXP. this is NT5.2 while 2k was NT5 and XP NT5.1

[Mr B]

Originally posted by skou
Wasn't exactly free, cost me a whole $7.30, not that I'm complaining.

steve

Lucky you...I paid $11.90 for S&H. :rolleyes:

I just got mine today. Neat lil' package, w/ 4 cd-roms.

One thing in the System Requirements listed on the package I just got (that wasn't mentioned on the website at the link from above);

Operating System Requirements

Exchange 2003 Beta is supported on the following operating systems:

Windows 2000 SP3 (full release build)
Windows.NET 2003 Release Candidate 2

I guess my idea of XP Pro is out the window (pardon the pun).

At least it came with a copy of Windows.NET 2003 Release Candidate 2. :rolleyes:

B.

[john240sx]

Originally posted by Army_Of_1
Yes, but if you think about it, the 365 day time period is a *long* time ... in 365 they will have another update to download which will give you another 365 days I believe and by then, you can switch back to your old OS

doesn't affect you if you format atleast once a year :D
(every month for me. either i mess something up (not too often), i get bored (very often) or i start to notice decreasing performance in games(i usually get very bored before this stage))

[mateo88]

How is the OS holding up for those who've recieved it? I'd like to get it, but everytime I click on submit it gives me an error. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow.

[shadowdr]

11.90 for shipping.not bad for 2-3 day.
thanks for the heads up.

[el]

nice deal if you play a lot.

[shadowdr]

Has anyone installed this yet? i received mine yesterday but need to backup my array first.Are there any issues you have had?

[cursor]

I installed it. Had a few hiccups with the NIC driver support. However, everything else is running fine.

[Albaholic]

Originally posted by cursor
I installed it. Had a few hiccups with the NIC driver support. However, everything else is running fine.
I had the same problem but all i did was find the driver disk and it turned out okay

[cursor]

I had to move my nic from PCI slot #1 to #2. XP didn't have a conflict with AGP, but Server 2003 did.