>Hi all,
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>Just got this MS sales pitch in the mail regarding MSDN Universal Subscription. Trouble is, I haven't a clue, from reading the brochure, just HOQ it works!
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>1) Is this an annual price, or an "initiation fee" with substantially lower rate once enrolled?
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>2) Is this even an annual thing, or does the price mean for a 'lifetime' subscription?

We've been subscribing for the last several years. M$ will escalate the price from time to time, but it has so many goodies you can easily get lost in there. It also ships in several different flavors. We have the universal subscription which costs $2500 for the first year and 2000 thereafter. Of course, that is subject to change like everything else. It'll probably double next year.<g>

One of the "goodies" from the resource kit supplement 2 I found is a tool that installs a web administrator for NT. If you are running an intranet or internet, it allows you to administer the site via a web browser using NT challenge/response authentication. No more going to the server to add/modify/delete users.