SNA and 2003 server compatibility.

[Roberto]

Hello.

At the moment we only use the SNA as a printer server
with NT server and it is going since long time ago.
We are in process to install the SNA server SP4 in a
Windows 2003 server enterprise edition, but we are not
sure it will run fine.
Could someone tell me if the compatibility is ok with
2003?
For now we don´t wnat to use HIS.

Thanks for your help.

Roberto

[Chris Houser [MSFT]]

Unfortunately SNA 4.0 is not supported on Windows 2003, there were several
critical fixes that were made in HIS 2000 SP1 to provide Windows 2003
compatibility. In addition SNA 4.0 is in extended support only (through an
extended support contract). There are no plans to back port the Windows
2003 fixes.
--
Regards,
Chris Houser
Host Integration Server Team

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"Roberto" <***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1a4801c4bce0$74d04940$***@phx.gbl...
Hello.

At the moment we only use the SNA as a printer server
with NT server and it is going since long time ago.
We are in process to install the SNA server SP4 in a
Windows 2003 server enterprise edition, but we are not
sure it will run fine.
Could someone tell me if the compatibility is ok with
2003?
For now we donŽt wnat to use HIS.

Thanks for your help.

Roberto

[Neil Pike]

Roberto,

Whilst it may well work - it's a fairly standard "app" after all - MS have not
tested it and won't support/help you. As such it would be recommended that you
don't even try!

Any issues you get will very likely be down to the extra default security that
MS put into Windows 2003.

Saying all that, if you really, really, really need to standardise on Windows
2003, then you could always run NT4 Server under Windows 2003, using MS Virtual
Server or one of the VMWare products. I've never tried SNA in a virtual
machine but there's no reason it shouldn't work - I've done lots of stuff with
VM's and haven't found anything yet that won't work in them.

Post by Roberto
At the moment we only use the SNA as a printer server
with NT server and it is going since long time ago.
We are in process to install the SNA server SP4 in a
Windows 2003 server enterprise edition, but we are not
sure it will run fine.
Could someone tell me if the compatibility is ok with
2003?
For now we don´t wnat to use HIS.
Thanks for your help.
Roberto

Neil Pike. Protech Computing Ltd
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[Latifa Ring]

Roberto,

I can understand your concern. We just upgrades 23 SNA 4.0 servers to HIS on
Windows 2003. What we did was an interim step where we upgraded the servers
to Windows 2000 first with SNA 4.0 and then made sure all the printing was
working with Windows 2000 print drivers and no OEM drivers. Once we did this
then we were able to upgrade to Host Integration Server on Windows 2003.

I know this was the long route but it was worth it because we have not run
into any SNA printing issues on our HIS server on W3K and we are 75%
complete with the migration and have migrated over 200 SNA print queues.

If you have the time to do this I would really recommend it.

"Roberto" <***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1a4801c4bce0$74d04940$***@phx.gbl...
Hello.

At the moment we only use the SNA as a printer server
with NT server and it is going since long time ago.
We are in process to install the SNA server SP4 in a
Windows 2003 server enterprise edition, but we are not
sure it will run fine.
Could someone tell me if the compatibility is ok with
2003?
For now we donŽt wnat to use HIS.

Thanks for your help.

Roberto

[Aaron Grady [MSFT]]

Roberto-

It may work, certainly there is no block in the SNA Server 4 product to keep
it from working on Windows 2003. However, I have to remind you that it is
not tested and it is not supported. If you need a supported product for
Windows 2003 you should be looking at using Host Integration Server 2000 or
2004.

Having said that, I'm sure some people have had some experience trying to
use SNA Server 4 on Windows 2003 and hopefully they will share their
experiences with you.

HTH,
--
Aaron Grady
MCSE + Internet, MCDBA, MCSD
SNA Server/Host Integration Server 2000
Microsoft

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"Roberto" <***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1a4801c4bce0$74d04940$***@phx.gbl...
Hello.

At the moment we only use the SNA as a printer server
with NT server and it is going since long time ago.
We are in process to install the SNA server SP4 in a
Windows 2003 server enterprise edition, but we are not
sure it will run fine.
Could someone tell me if the compatibility is ok with
2003?
For now we donŽt wnat to use HIS.

Thanks for your help.

Roberto