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Windows Internal Developer Server 2003

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17 Feb 2024CPOL12 min read 1.6K   1  
Windows Server 2003 Build Server
The document outlines a detailed process for building Windows Server 2003 RTM, including sourcing the code, setting up the development environment, and executing the build process, while also providing insights into Microsoft's build lab practices and historical branching systems up to Windows 11, along with additional bonus tasks and future considerations for Windows NT, UNIX Ports, and Perl sources.

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I'm a Royal Society of the Arts Fellow, I'm a Moore, Chapman, Hathaway, McCulley, Spencer and Lyon and Irish Ashkenazi Jewish. Microsoft System Integrator with valid contract from 2002-present. INTJ-T tested at the University of California, University of Virginia Computer Science Alumni. With 3.5 GPA Scholar Award. I was UVa's ACM Vice President in 2008-2010. I'm also Windows 7/2008 Internals Certified. Former Macromedia User Group trainer from 1999. WK3 was released on my birthday.

I was born in 1978. I grew up with Alpha, MIPS, VAX and x86 computer architecture. My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 with Microsoft XENIX in 1984. AT&T System V at Sullins Academy in 1983. I later bought Apple Macintosh Pro's, Hewlett Packard and Dell PC's and servers running OpenVMS, Apple's System, Mac OS X and Windows. I've bought 4 MSDN enterprise subscriptions and have three Microsoft Bizspark grants.

I've worked for ID Software for Quake 1, 2 and 3 Arena. I was born with as lisp. I look forward to Windows Embedded in 2029. To bring back modular round trip engineering of Windows. Because I think Linux is bad corporate Darwinism. Microsoft has a nice UNIX corporate ideology. I'm looking forward to when Microsoft can be called a Computer Science company not IT.

I've done work with BSD in 2001 on the Common Desktop Environment for x86. I would like to teach the top down software design approach of Bell Labs Plan 9 to students. I have submitted my Bell Labs distinguished academic scholar application to Nokia Bell Labs awaiting approval in 2026.

My licensed work is in the Computer History Museum for Macromedia. I own a Macromedia Patent Portfolio. I helped ship Macromedia Studio 8 and Windows Server 2003 and the Windows 11 Dev Drive. I also worked on official Windows 8/8.1 PowerPoint Storyboards. I'm also A Windows Compact Embedded Shared Source Initiative Licensee 2000-2023. Future work will be for Mathworks in Matlab. My family lives in NY, California and Virginia.
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