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The Vista-Forefront Security Two-Step
Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Vista deployment is still at least a year out for most enterprise deployments, but it’s not too early to
consider what to do if Microsoft’s new Vista operating system and Forefront security family don’t support your legacy Microsoft and non-Microsoft applications.
Organizations that can’t change out legacy apps such as Microsoft SQL Server 2000 due to the custom code they wrote for it could find themselves left out in the cold security-wise with Vista and Forefront, experts say. Although Microsoft hasn’t officially revealed just which older apps will not work with Vista and Forefront yet — or to what extent — security experts don’t expect Microsoft to include older products such as SQL 2000 and ISA Server 2000, for instance, under the new generation of products.
"Forefront is not likely to be compatible with Windows 95/98/ME and may not run on NT 3.5, 4.0, or 2000 with some Service Packs," says Randy Abrams, director of technical education for Eset, and the former operations manager for Microsoft’s Global Infrastructure Alliance for Internet Safety. "It is possible that the code will run on older systems, but very unlikely that MS will support it if it does." Dark Reading - Host security - The Vista-Forefront Security Two-Step - Security News Analysis
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