Comments on: BackOffice Server 4.5 aka how to get the best of 1990’s Microsoft Server Tech! https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/ Fun with Virtualization Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:18:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-182243 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:18:53 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-182243 In reply to adacosta.

It’s always the way, isnt it?

Microsoft has killed Exchange in the newer small business servers as they are steering everyone towards the hosted office 365 stuff.

I just think it’s neat in the age of fast machines, emulating things like routers, switches, and servers make it possible to build up an entire intranet on a single machine.

]]> By: adacosta https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-182242 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:33:31 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-182242 Ex-friend sent me the Back Office 4.5 MSDN CDs nearly 15 years ago. Didn’t have the hardware resources to run it back then, since I was limited to a 1999 IBM Aptiva and I wasn’t going to mess with it.

About 5 to 7 years ago, I had installed it in Virtual PC, had Exchange setup and was able to manage a Windows NT 3.1 and 4.0 Workstations from it. Even had Outlook 97 working and Web Access. I must say, it was really easy to use. Got bored eventually. Probably should give it a try again. I also have Small Business Server 2000 and 2003, but never played with them. 15 years ago, when I dreamed of having access to all this software and what I would do, now I do and I don’t care.

I should check my MSDN sub to see if they still host the defunct Mid Market Server 2008 and another variant.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-181511 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:25:00 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-181511 In reply to calvin.

Sounds cool though!

]]> By: calvin https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-181509 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:01:18 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-181509 fwiw, the IRCd was in Exchange 5.5. 2000 (at least the one in SBS 2000) replaces it with an MSNP IM server, using MSN Messenger.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-180792 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:29:29 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-180792 In reply to Chris M..

I’m finally getting some traction using VDE as interconnects+dynamips running Cisco IOS…

Old crap net is slowly happening…

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-180703 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:42:52 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-180703 In reply to techfury90.

Well that is kind of cool! .. How do you connect? on a LAN with DLC? SDLC cards?

I really should have ran a packet capture when I used to have access to a mainframe to get the LU going active, and a terminal session going live, along with input & output….. Don’t know why I never did.

]]> By: techfury90 https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-180691 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:08:14 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-180691 I have actually used SNA Server in a hobby network. Granted, all I did was hook it up to one of my AS/400s and use 5250 terminal emulation.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-180363 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:12:18 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-180363 OK Im a slacker, let me put something together….. maybe this is the time to mess with VDE…

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-180333 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:55:57 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-180333 In reply to Chris M..

the site is down… Although what I was thinking was a bridge, so you would run this on a windows or unix/os x machine on your network, and it then picks up the apple talk packets and sends them to other bridges. that way you only need one machine to do the bridging, and the othermachines just need ethenet…

]]> By: Chris M. https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/03/12/backoffice-server-4-5-aka-get-best-1990s-microsoft-server-tech/comment-page-1/#comment-180324 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:37:44 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6922#comment-180324 Hobbyist Appletalk? Done! http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/avpn.html

Although its not a “traditional” Appletalk network, just a tunnel to a netatalk server over TCP/IP. There are Appletalk tunneling (over TCP/IP) protocols out there that can connect two networks, but they weren’t widely supported outside of the Shiva Fastpath 5 or the Cayman Gatorbox routers.

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