Microsoft Learning Network Manager 2005

[tosca925]

Found this on another newsgroup, any one sen it yet?

Microsoft Learning Network Manager (LNM)is an amazing tool that greatly
simplifies administration of Windows 2003 and can be more valuable to a
School IT Administrator than an extensive and expensive training program
for him or her.

With LNM, a School IT Admin can do such things as set up
all users on Windows 2003 in a matter of minutes rather than spend
sometimes a week or more entering hundreds or thousands of user names.

LNM is designed to hugely simplify and speed up every network
administration task on Windows 2003. It is especially useful to
inexperienced School IT Administrators enabling them to understand and
operate a Windows network as easily as a highly trained and experienced
Windows Network Administrator.

LNM completely automates server installation and configuration, it also
deploys the workstation OS and applications, configures users profiles
and restrictions, controls internet access and when configured with
appropriate hardware resources, also provides Terminal Services access
for as many users as the hardware can support.

LNM can be used to deploy Server 2003 and establish new domains, or will
easily integrate into existing native deployments.

LNM will be demonstrated by our specialist Microsoft Education Teams at
BETT who will be available to help you with any questions, installation
or other issues to make Windows 2003 work harder for your school.

[Dos_Box]

I was going to visit them anyway. Double the reason now.

[ajbritton]

Hmmm... looks interesting. More info here (but not much!)

[john]

Just saw that today as well, and read the PDF seems interesting, so will ensure that I visit them at BETT and see about it.

[StewartKnight]

Wow, did I read the glossy correctly? Available AT NO COST???

[alan-d]

Seems to be

Getting Started
What Do You Need?
Learning Network Manager is available at no cost to most education institutions with
existing Microsoft licensed operating systems:
Server: Microsoft Windows Server 2003
with all updates
Desktop: Microsoft Windows XP, plus a second operating system

[russdev]

well on wed meeting up with pr team at ms so anything to ask them about it?

Russ

[Netman]

@Russ

Can you ask them.... When will it be available?

Thanks...!

Hummm looks good. If it does what it says on the tin, I can see alot of worried faces at some "well known" education companys.

[_Rob_]

Hmmmm... Looks interesting.

I would love to see a demo of this, could be a useful addition to some of my Primary Schools!

Rob.

[alan-d]

Would be good to see a demo of some description or at least some screen shots.

I was looking to remove Ranger this year and just having Net Support for Schools on for the staff to use, but if this is coming out soon and looks useful then I may defer my plans and save a lot of cash

[woody]

Does it do import of users from a csv file?

Does it do print quotas?

How will it integrate into already networks that have already been set up?

There's a few to keep you going.

[Jake]

Looks like a great package, would be very interested in a demo too

[richard]

Looks like a great package, would be very interested in a demo too

Me too.

[Norphy]

With LNM, a School IT Admin can do such things as set up all users on Windows 2003 in a matter of minutes rather than spend sometimes a week or more entering hundreds or thousands of user names.

Who on earth sets up an entire years worth of new users MANUALLY ffs! Thats what the command line is for! Do a dump of new intake from SIMS into a CSV file and use DSADD or CSVDE or similar to create the users and job is done in ten minutes, seven of which it takes to write the fricking script!

Otherwise, looks interesting. I'll definately give it a spin on Monday.