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 DesktopRemote RegistryTelnet 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 ServicePOP3/SNMPFTP User IsolationMultiple Distributed File System RootsMuch less taxing on hardwareRemote desktop full featuresActive 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