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Microsoft Server Technology. An Overview By Christopher W. Baran. Server Programs and their uses. Windows Server 2003 – everything but advanced E-mail, SQL, and a Proxy Microsoft Exchange 2000 (2003) – Advanced E-mail and appointment collaboration. Server Programs and their uses.
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Microsoft Server Technology An Overview By Christopher W. Baran
Server Programs and their uses • Windows Server 2003 – everything but advanced E-mail, SQL, and a Proxy • Microsoft Exchange 2000 (2003) – Advanced E-mail and appointment collaboration
Server Programs and their uses • Internet Security & Acceleration Server – proxy server • SQL Server …
From *NIX Looking In • XP Professional and Server 2003 are much more manageable • Remote Desktop • Remote Registry • Telnet Command Line
Domains • Microsoft's Directory Services (for real this time) • Similar to eDirectory/NDS of Novell or LDAP/NIS of the *nix world • Ease of administration of multiple machines
New Services in 2003 Server • Shadow Copy Service • POP3/SNMP • FTP User Isolation • Multiple Distributed File System Roots • Much less taxing on hardware • Remote desktop full features • Active Directory Selectively Replicating
The Other Useful Services • DNS & WINS • DHCP • FTP / WWW • Routing and Remote Access • SNMP Support • Active Directory • Familiar XP Style Interface
Shadow Copy Service • Simple for users to restore old versions of files • Backups don’t need to worry about file locks anymore • Easy to configure
FTP User Isolation • Now ftp logins can give access to different directories • An alternative to web site administration from Front Page Server Extensions
Multiple DFS Roots • DFS is fail safe/load balanced • DFS automatically replicates files • An alternative to clustering
Remote Desktop Full Features • Support of 24-bit color • 2 Free remote sessions along with consol • Bring printers/sound/drives to the local machine • Makes this a remote manageable OS
Routing and Remote Access • NAT / RIP / OSPF • PPTP / PPPOE / L2TP • 300 Remote Access Clients on one server • Dial-in Support • Dial-on-Demand Routing