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Welcome to the release notes for Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
These release notes contain important information that was not available when the product documentation for Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition was written.
Click the headings listed at the top of this document to see whether there is any important information that might apply to your specific setup.
In addition, read the other release notes files on the Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition compact disc (CD):
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Applications |
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Servers running this Windows product do not support Application Center 2000 SP1 and earlier versions.
To work around this issue, upgrade to Application Center 2000 SP2.
When using Commerce Server 2000 SP1 and earlier versions on this Windows product, all BizDesk navigation links result in Active Server Pages (ASP) errors. To work around this issue, you must modify the IIS security metabase.
Note
IIS must be stopped before you can save the metabase.xml file. The following procedure has not been tested under the Direct Metabase Edit option in the Internet Information Services Properties dialog box.
To modify the IIS security metabase
AspEnableParentPaths="TRUE"
This property is inherited, so it is not necessary to add it to any subdirectories of a virtual directory that has this flag set.
For better security, this value is not recommended for the root directory, as this will turn on the security setting for every Web directory on your server.
The following is an example of a virtual directory header in the metabase.xml file:
<IIsWebVirtualDir Location ="/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/blanksite". . . AspEnableParentPaths ="TRUE". > </IIsWebVirtualDir>
Active Server Pages (ASP) pages containing calls to Commerce Server objects will fail and return error information. This will occur in Commerce Server 2000 SP1 because of changes in IIS for Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
To work around this issue, you must change the Internet Guest Account access control list (ACL) in the Program Files folder. Set the permissions to allow read access but not write access.
During the installation of Content Management Server (CMS) 2001 on Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition, you are pointed to a Microsoft Web site from whichyou can download the Microsoft virtual machine (VM) for Java. On Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition, you do not see that information.
To work around this issue, you must first download the Microsoft VM from the Microsoft Windows Update Web site before proceeding with the CMS 2001 installation.
Any Web sites managed by CMS 2001 will not work with this Windows product. The following error will be displayed:
HTTP Error 404 File not found. The same problem occurs when you use the Site Builder client of CMS 2001 to create content for a CMS Web site.
To work around this issue, change the access control list for everyone in the IIS_NR directory (in \Program Files\).
Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) is not included in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
Because Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 is part of the BackOffice® 2000 suite, you must have ISA Server 2000 SP1 installed if you intend to run ISA Server 2000 on computers running Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
To work around this issue, either install ISA Server 2000 SP1 or obtain from the ISA team the QFE for computers running Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
Microsoft Systems Network Architecture (SNA) 4.0 SP4 and earlier are not supported on computers running Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition. There is no workaround.
To set up Exchange 2000 Clustering on Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition, you must first implement Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) as a resource.
To implement this as a resource, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q290624: "HOWTO: Configure MSDTC in a Windows 2000 Cluster Environment" on the Microsoft Knowledge Base Web site. Follow the instructions provided there.
After MSDTC has been implemented as a resource, proceed with the Exchange 2000 Clustering setup.
Server administrators who use the Web interface for remote administration will not be able to perform the following tasks on their servers if they are using a remote Web client:
On Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition, you can install this feature with Configure Your Server (CYS) or as an optional component under Internet Information Services (IIS).
To work around this issue
If you try to install SharePoint™ Team Services (STS) on Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition and the latter already has STS installed on it, your installation might fail.
To work around this installation issue
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server
net stop http /y
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50
You can now install STS.
The FrontPage® Server Extensions (FPSE) Usage Analysis feature is no longer supported for installations of FPSE in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
To get this feature, install STS (which ships with Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition) and continue to use FPSE as before. You can configure STS by using the Configure Your Server Wizard in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
Clustering |
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In Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition, new Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) resource installations fail to come online when Cluster Service Account (CSA) does not have permission to create child objects on the computer object associated with the dependent Network Name resource.
To work around this issue, you must open the Users and Computers MMC snap-in and then open the computer object properties to view the security descriptor. Select the Create all Child Objects check box to grant the CSA permission to create child objects on the computer object created by the Network Name resource. After that, you can bring the MSMQ resource online.
The Majority Node Set quorum feature available for server clusters in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition is a new technology that has a number of applications. Note, however, that it works differently from a traditional server cluster using a standard quorum resource.
This technology is not designed for use as a general-purpose quorum mechanism in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition. Microsoft is releasing this feature as a technology preview that is designed to enable vendors and non-Microsoft software providers to evaluate the feature and to incorporate it into other value-add products and services. Standard quorum resources (physical disk resources or non-Microsoft resources) are recommended for use in server clusters that are deployed in end-user production environments.
In Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition, only one instance of the Majority Node Set resource can exist in the cluster.
To work around this issue, do not create two or more Majority Node Set resources on the same cluster.
To install Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition, you must have the new RequireKerberos property on the dependent network name enabled.
To install MSMQ on Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition
For more information, click Start and then click Help and Support. In Help and Support Center, search for "Installing a Message Queuing resource."
Network Load Balancing Manager fails to get authenticated on a host on which it needs to perform an operation, resulting in the following error message:
Win32: Access Denied
To work around this issue, enter new credentials in Network Load Balancing Manager. The host that denied access to Network Load Balancing Manager will authenticate the new credentials.
Network Load Balancing Manager is not backwards compatible with Windows 2000 products. There is no workaround for this issue.
When you use the Connect to Existing option in Network Load Balancing Manager in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition to connect to an existing cluster so that you can manage it, Network Load Balancing Manager does not automatically display all of the hosts in the cluster.
To see all of the hosts in the cluster
Network Load Balancing Manager will contact each of the hosts, get the network load balancing information, and then display this information in the Network Load Balancing Manager user interface.
You can also load the text file by entering it as an argument when starting Network Load Balancing Manager from a command line, as in the following example:
nlbmgr.exe -hostlist <host file name>Network Load Balancing Manager user credentials are stored in unencrypted form in memory, which may pose a security risk to your system.
To work around this issue, do not enter credentials in Network Load Balancing Manager if you have security concerns. To use Network Load Balancing Manager without setting the credentials, ensure that the logon credentials you use to log on to the machine on which Network Load Balancing Manager is being run have system administrator privileges on all of the host servers in the cluster.
The error-checking capabilities in Network Load Balancing Manager for Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition are very limited.
When creating a new cluster:
When connecting to an existing cluster:
To work around this issue, refer to the troubleshooting guide in online Help to determine the problem with your cluster. After you identify the problem, you can use Network Load Balancing Manager to change cluster parameters remotely to address the problem.
The Network Load Balancing Manager logs displayed in the lower half of the Network Load Balancing Manager windows are not saved to a log file by default.
To work around this issue, save the Network Load Balancing Manager logs to a specific log file using the Log option on the Options menu. All subsequent events will be logged to this log file, and the file will be saved when the user quits Network Load Balancing Manager.
Mode changes—from unicast to multicast or vice versa—that you make through Network Load Balancing Manager are not supported in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition and might result in unexpected behavior.
To work around this issue, change modes only at the host server, one host at a time. For additional information, see Help and Support Center (click Start and then click Help and Support).
If you create a network load balancing cluster, Network Load Balancing Manager will automatically add the cluster IP address to TCP/IP for each host server in the cluster. However, when you are load-balancing multiple Web sites or applications on this same network load-balancing cluster, Network Load Balancing Manager in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition will not have support to add these additional IP addresses to the cluster hosts. You must do this manually.
To work around this issue, you must manually enter the IP addresses corresponding to the additional Web sites or applications in the TCP/IP properties of each host server in the cluster. You can use Network Load Balancing Manager to configure the Per-IP port rules for these IP addresses.
Changing remote control passwords by using Network Load Balancing Manager is not supported in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
To work around this issue, you must change the password by using the Network Load Balancing user interface on each host server.
Network Load Balancing Manager requires the user to enter his or her credentials, which are then verified with the local host server on which an operation is being performed by Network Load Balancing Manager. Those credentials are not saved when the user quits Network Load Balancing Manager.
There is no workaround for this issue. You must reenter user credentials each time you use Network Load Balancing Manager.
Internet Services |
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It is recommended that you do not enable both the Windows Media™ Services (WMS) Basic Authentication and WMS NTLM Authentication plug-ins at the same time. Authorization might not be completed when a media player is using either the MMSU or MMST protocol.
If the server running WMS receives a large number of diagnostic error events (such as when the connection-rate limit is exceeded several dozen times in rapid succession as a result of a virus), the server might encounter an access violation.
To work around this issue, try to avoid excessive error events by periodically checking the server for errors protecting it against viruses.
You cannot access WMS Help by using the F1 key. To work around this issue, use the Help button instead.
You can enable the WMS NTLM Authentication plug-in only at the server level. If you enable this plug-in at the publishing point level, authorization might not be completed when a media player uses either the MMSU or MMST protocol.
Do not use the script debugging feature in this beta release of WMS. The tool does not perform as expected and may cause issues with the script itself.
To work around this issue, debug scripts manually for this release.
Network and Communications |
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The Internet Connection Sharing feature is not included in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
The Network Bridge feature is not included in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
The version of the Real-Time Communications (RTC) service that ships with Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition is not currently compatible with either of the following versions of MSN® Messenger:
The RTC service has the ability to verify the existence of your messenger buddy in Active Directory™ before accepting and processing presence requests targeted to this buddy. Turn off this feature in any of the following situations:
To disable subscription verification
Remote administration of the RTC service is not supported in this release of Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
Only Basic Authentication is supported in this release of Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition. Other authentication methods (such as Integrated Windows Authentication and Digest Authentication) will be supported in future releases.
To use Basic Authentication, you must change the realm value on a server. This value should be equal to the domain portion of the user's Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
For example, if your sign-in name is test@adatum.com, you must configure the realm to adatum.com. To do this, create a file named realm.vbs with the following contents:
----- code start-------------------------------------- ' VBScript source code Dim oSvc, oUser, oCtx, oProx Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments if (objArgs.count <> 1) then WScript.echo"Usage: setrealm"else set oSvc = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator").ConnectServer(".","root\cimv2") set oCtx = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemNamedValueSet") set oUser = oSvc.InstancesOf("MSFT_SIPProxySecuritySetting") if (oUser.count > 1 ) then WScript.echo"More than one instance of Securitysetting. Not setting the realm"else for each oProx in oUser WScript.echo"Setting the realm attribute to :"& objArgs(0) oProx.realm = objArgs(0) oProx.Put_ 1, oCtx next end if end if ---------code end-----------------------------------
Run this file from a command line with the syntax "realm ." Note that you must have administrator privileges to do this.
To use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones in your deployment, you need to add a new domain entry to the Registrar domain table. To do this, open the Real-Time Communications (RTC) service Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, right-click the Registrar Module icon in the Routing Extension module, and then add a new domain with the name "*;user=phone".
To use Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) phones by routing calls through the IP to the PSTN gateway, create an entry in the routing table. To do this, open the RTC server MMC snap-in. In the routing pane, add two routes, as described in the following procedures.
To add the first route
To add the second route
If the user is registered as a phone number and the route "*@*" is used, incoming calls will not be routed to registered users.
Other |
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If you select the file-server role and install the Web user interface for file server administration, you will be unable to view the FTP and Shares site logs by using the Web user interface. The displayed logs are actually the Administration site logs.
There is no workaround for this issue.
To find information about making shadow copies of shared folders, open Help from the command line by clicking Start, clicking Run, and then typing the following:
hh windows.chm
Click the Contents tab, and then click the following (in order): Disks and Data, Backing Up and Recovering Data, and Shadow Copies of Shared Folders. Under Shadow Copies of Shared Folders, click the titles of the topics you want to see.
Hardware acceleration for Direct3D® and OpenGL is not available in Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
The Microsoft virtual machine (Microsoft VM) is now available only as a Web download. The latest 32-bit edition of the Microsoft VM can be obtained at the Microsoft Windows Update Web site. If you do not already have a virtual machine on your system and visit a Web site with a Java applet, Internet Explorer will automatically ask if you wish to install the Microsoft VM.
Terminal Server (formerly known as Terminal Services in application server mode) is not supported with this release of Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition. Remote Desktop for Administration (formerly known as Terminal Services in remote administration mode) is supported for Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
When you create a trust relationship between two forests Distributed File System (DFS) will not be able to resolve the address in the remote forest. DFS obtains the list of trusted domains from the directory and uses this information to access the namespace.
To work around this issue, set up a direct trust with every domain on which you need domain DFS to work.
Security |
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Security has been upgraded for Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition.
Applications that try to open a Local Security Authority (LSA) handle anonymously will not be permitted access. This might result in some applications failing and returning an "Access Denied" error message.
For example, if you have a Structured Query Language (SQL) database hosted on a computer running Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition, with an Internet Information Services (IIS) server using Named Pipes accessing the SQL database, the following error might be reported:
0x80004005 on an Access Data Object (ADODB) Open.
To verify that the failure is caused by the application trying to make an anonymous call, check the computer's event log for Event ID=6033. This log tells you how to disable this security feature if it does block functionality.
You are advised to follow up with the application vendor who is making this call to ensure that the application is updated and able to make secure calls.
A Windows 2000 enrollment station cannot enroll against a Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition certification authority and domain controller unless Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000 is installed on the enrollment station. Otherwise, an error will occur on the Windows 2000 client and the enrollment will fail.
To work around this issue, install Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.
A Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition certification authority will not be able to issue any new version 2 templates in a Windows 2000 forest that has been upgraded to a Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition schema unless Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 is used for all domain controllers. This is because a Windows Datacenter Server, Limited Edition certification authority expects only signed Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) responses from domain controllers. This only applies to any new version 2 template that is created or duplicated.
To work around this issue, apply the QFE provided in Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q308385 on all domain controllers.
Server Management |
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In this release, Shutdown.exe Help is not accessible through the interactive shutdown dialog box activated from the command prompt. Neither F1 nor the Help button link to the Help file.
To view this Help file, click Start, click Help and Support, and then search for "shutdown."
Any shutdown initiated by pressing CTRL+AL +DELETE and then clicking the Shut Down button will activate the System State Data feature. However, this feature works only if the user shutting down the computer is an administrator on the computer.
In all cases, only administrators on the computer can report the system state information to Microsoft if the error-reporting functionality is turned on.
Additional Resources |
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To review the latest hardware compatibility information, see the Windows Hardware Compatibility Web site.
Please note, if you require support for Windows Datacenter, Limited Edition, you must contact your Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).
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