Windows NT 40 Workstation year 2000 compliance
Background: To determine whether or not WinNT 4.0 is within year 2000 compliance. From the outlined testing procedures found in the 'YEAR 2000 Testing memo', it was decided that since WinNT is an OS it is 'date sensitive'. From this, all outlined tests were performed. The data gathered is represented in table form. Equipment: To test, a Compaq Prolinea 590 was used with the latest bios installed (04/09/97). The machine had WINNT 4.0 installed with Service Pack 3.0 patch for the OS. Testing Procedure: To determine if Windows NT 4.0 would roll to the appropriate date, the control panel applet "DATE&TIME"(d&t) was used to change the dates. The machine d&t were set to the day before each date outlined in the memo. The machine date was changed to a control time of 11:59:45 PM in each case. The machine date was then allowed to roll to the date in question. The machine d&t was then reset to the previous date and control time. This time the machine was rebooted while the time was rolling to the date in question. In each case, after the time rolled, the date was checked to find the correct date. WinNT Explorer was then opened and a file in the 'c:winnt' directory was changed to check whether or not a saved
In conclusion, Windows NT workstation has a few minor issues pertaining to the year 2000, but Microsoft promises to have a Service release available to correct these problems. From these numbers it can be shown that WinNT 4. file corresponded with the correct date. When rolling to new dates NT may skip several days ahead. 'February only has 28 days in this year'. When you use the Winnt Find Files or folders feature, the 2-digit abbreviation of the year doesn't appear correctly. This seemed strange because the machine time stamp wouldn't roll back when the time was changed backwards, but this isn't part of the test procedure. Taken from document Q180122 from Microsoft Tech support for Year 20003. Taken from document Q183125 from Microsoft tech support for Year 2000(These documents are included with this report)In each case, Microsoft states that if you are having these problems, installation the next service release should fix these problems although, this release isn't available yet. If we have machines that are affected, the Service Pack that Microsoft is supposedly releasing should fix these issues. When you set an account to expire on Feb 29,2000, User manager displays the following error. Item 1 was left out because in our operation we don't set Local accounts to expire, we use the Domain model so this testing is more appropriate on the server, so this isn't an issue with WinNT 4. Both 'Post Test Date' columns are the dates found in each instance after the date rolled from the 'Date&Time Tested' column to the date in question.
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