{"id":1577,"date":"2013-07-03T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2013-07-03T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T02:09:07","slug":"so-ends-another-tech-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2013\/07\/03\/so-ends-another-tech-item\/","title":{"rendered":"So ends another tech item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may come as a surprise, but my &#8220;alter personality&#8221; does some Microsoft Windows server and workstation management. As such, years ago, I got a TechNet subscription so I could learn how it all worked. See coming from a UNIX side, even though Windows as point and clicky, there is still some technique to managing a windows environment. I also used it to learn Exchange and some SQL server as well. So over the years it has helped me a lot (not to mention the ability to test different versions of the OS and applications to see how they react to different systems.) So I was surprised to find out on Monday that Microsoft is <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/subscriptions\">canceling TechNet<\/a>. While I can understand some of the reasons for it, it does leave us who like to learn at home a little in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>While we can still download a &#8220;trial&#8221; version of some of the software, the time it would take to install, patch and get it up to &#8220;testing&#8221; status every time I wanted to test something is going to be a little much. So I wonder how soon it is before Microsoft possibly reverses this decision, just like the Xbox One issue.<\/p>\n<p>There is the option of going to MSDN subscription, but when I am paying for this out of my own pocket, the $699 + $499 \/ year after that is a little much for me to pay for my self.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may come as a surprise, but my &#8220;alter personality&#8221; does some Microsoft Windows server and workstation management. As such, years ago, I got a TechNet subscription so I could learn how it all worked. See coming from a UNIX side, even though Windows as point and clicky, there is still some technique to managing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2013\/07\/03\/so-ends-another-tech-item\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So ends another tech item&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36],"tags":[392,391,390],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m-winders","category-rant","tag-subscription","tag-technet","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}