Microsoft Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure & Resource Center

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Product: Microsoft Mail for PC Networks Version: 3.5 Category: Compliant* Operating System: DOS Language: Spanish Release Date: 09 Jun 1995 Operational Range: 01 Jan 1970 - 31 Dec 2035 Prerequisites: Year 2000 product software updates identified below Product Dependencies: Windows NT 3.51, MS-DOS 6.22 Clock Dependencies: Windows NT System clock, PC BIOS Last Updated: 21 Apr 1999

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This document is applicable to Microsoft Mail for PC Networks components, Win Mail Client 3.5, Remote Mail Client 3.2. ** Microsoft Mail for PC Networks itself operates within a range of January 1, 1970 - February 5, 2035. In many cases Microsoft Mail will operate in ranges that extend beyond these parameters, however when using Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0 or the Novell MHS gateway, the date range is January 1, 1970 û December 31, 2019. This document covers the Microsoft Mail for PC Networks components and discusses how to resolve the known Year 2000 issues. This document covers products that are directly included with the Microsoft Mail product, or related components that can be added or purchased separately. These components combined together are referred to as Microsoft Mail or Microsoft Mail for PC Networks. There are individual components that may be called out specifically in order to give more details on how they use dates or how some features should be tested. The document is specific to the Spanish versions of specific components. Additional components that were not localized are covered in the English documentation for MS Mail for PC Networks. Some of the issues and what was tested with the Spanish client accessing the English Microsoft Mail Post Office are covered in this document. Updates for the English server components are also needed. What are the prerequisites? Microsoft Mail 3.5 has no known issues when using it with the provided Year 2000 product software updates. The Microsoft Mail Year 2000 product software updates for the Windows Remote Mail Client are on: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/mail/pcmail-public/spa/all-y2k/ To resolve known issues with Microsoft Mail 3.5 Spanish components, software updates need to be applied to: Windows Remote Mail Client 3.2. These component software update is only required if the component is used by the customer. For instance, if the customerÆs mail environment does not include the Windows Remote Mail Client then this specific software update would not be needed. This is a list of the components and their executable names that have product software updates: Microsoft Mail Windows Remote 3.2 client: Windows Remote client REMCY2K.EXE The set of instructions for installing the Microsoft Mail client and server components can be found at: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/mail/pcmail-public/spa/all-y2k/Readmeus.txt The following Knowledge Base articles provide a summary of each known year 2000 issue that were updated in the Microsoft Mail 3.5 components. Note: These Knowledge Base articles are available at http://support.microsoft.com/support/c.asp Q191886: Y2K: Reqmain.exe Displays the Incorrect Date after 1999 Q191887: Y2K: Srvmain.exe Displays Incorrect Date after 1999 Q191888: Y2K: Dispatch Incorrectly Displays Year Q191889: Y2K: Rebuild.exe Displays Incorrect Date after 1999 Q191905: Y2K: Key Dirsync Logs Display Incorrect Date after 1999 Q191907: Y2K: Import.exe Displays Incorrect Date after 1999 Q191942: Y2K: External.exe Displays Dates Incorrectly after 1999 Q191943: Y2K: Seconds in Time Field Incorrect after 1999 Q192156: Y2K: NTMMTA Incorrectly Logs Dates after 1999 Q192158: Y2K: NTMMTA Dirsync Process Incorrectly Logs Dates Beyond 1999 Q192199: DOS Remote Client Displays Year 100 on or after Year 2000 Q192238: Windows Remote Client May Display Date Incorrectly After 2000 Q192239: Postmaster Messages Display Incorrect Date After 2000 Q192240: Remote MS-DOS Client May Sort Incorrectly After Year 2000 Q192241: DOS Remote Mail Incorrectly Changes Date/Time after Year 2000 Q192242: Admin Print Functions after Year 2000 Show Incorrect Date Format Q192243: Administrator Program Incorrectly Displays Date After Year 2000 Q191962: FAX: Problems Configuring Gateway to Stop in Year 2000 or Later Q192084: X400: Incorrect Date on Message Sent Through X.400 Gateway Q192085: MHS: Incorrect Date Recorded in Sent.log and Recv.log Files   What was tested with Microsoft Mail 3.5? Listed below are the gateways and clients that were tested with Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 3.5. Also listed is the version that was tested. Mail Gateway 3.0 for MS-DOS English NA 3.5 Fax Gateway Mail Gateway 3.0 for MS-DOS English NA 3.5 FAX Access Mail Gateway 3.0 for MS-DOS English NA 3.5 MHS Gateway Mail Gateway 3.0 for MS-DOS English NA 3.5 MHS Access Mail Gateway 3.0 for MS-DOS English NA 3.5 SMTP Gateway Mail Gateway 3.0 for MS-DOS English NA 3.5 SMTP Access Mail Gateway 3.2 for MS-DOS English NA 3.5 X400 Gateway Mail Gateway 3.2 for MS-DOS English NA 3.5 X400 Access Mail Client 3.5 Spanish on MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.51 Mail Remote 3.2 Spanish on MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 Schedule + 1.0 for Windows English NA 3.5 In addition, the following clients were tested with the Microsoft Mail service provider on Windows 95 Windows Inbox Exchange Client 5.0 Outlook 97 Outlook 98 Schedule+ 7 and higher MMF Clean Utility Tested Microsoft Mail 3.5 Post Office and components on Netware Year 2000 compliant networks What was not tested with Microsoft Mail 3.5? 3COM gateway ATT gateway MCI gateway SNADS gateway PROFS gateway Resource Kit tools Internal Microsoft utilities Microsoft Mail Server for Macintosh Macintosh clients Two-digit shortcut handling: There are some components within Microsoft Mail 3.5 that store dates in 2 digits. For these cases any date that has the value 50-99 are interpreted as 1950-1999. Values that are 00-49 are interpreted as 2000-2049. This is also the case when mail comes from other mail systems that only store dates with 2 digits. Does 2-digit shortcut handling workaround everything? No. There are currently two known products that do not handle 2-digit dates as expected. Microsoft Schedule+ 1.0 supports a date range of 1920 to 2018. Dates within this range work as expected; dates that extend past December 31, 2018 will be handled as 1900 dates. For instance the year 2020, would become 1920. This is also true for the Novell MHS gateway. The Novell MHS gateway only supports dates through the end of 2018. Common date usage errors: Microsoft Mail 3.5 supports Internet (SMTP) and X.400 standards with these respective gateways. These gateways provide connectivity with other vendorsÆ messaging systems. In doing so, Microsoft has had to adapt Microsoft Mail 3.5 to convert any two-digit dates received from and/or expected by those non-Microsoft systems. Microsoft cannot assure customers of the accuracy of a non-Microsoft receiving environment or the reliability of the date data being passed to Microsoft Mail 3.5. Testing guidelines and recommendations: Setup a test environment that simulates the customer Microsoft Mail 3.5 topology. When this is setup, change the system time on servers to be December 31, 1999. Then start sending messages and let the date roll over to January 1, 2000. Use any applications that may have been written to use the Microsoft Mail 3.5 environment. These are any workflow, collaboration, etc., applications that the company uses to run their business. Microsoft recommends that the customer roll the date forward to various dates in the range 12/31/1999 to 12/31/2018 and test many different scenarios.

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