1. Microsoft Server Technology An Overview By Christopher W. Baran

2. 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

3. Server Programs and their uses Internet Security & Acceleration Server – proxy server SQL Server …

4. From *NIX Looking In XP Professional and Server 2003 are much more manageable Remote Desktop Remote Registry Telnet Command Line

5. 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

6. 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

7. The Other Useful Services DNS & WINS DHCP FTP / WWW Routing and Remote Access SNMP Support Active Directory Familiar XP Style Interface

8. 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

9. FTP User Isolation Now ftp logins can give access to different directories An alternative to web site administration from Front Page Server Extensions

10. Multiple DFS Roots DFS is fail safe/load balanced DFS automatically replicates files An alternative to clustering

11. 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

12. Routing and Remote Access NAT / RIP / OSPF PPTP / PPPOE / L2TP 300 Remote Access Clients on one server Dial-in Support Dial-on-Demand Routing