Microsoft Server Technology

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Microsoft Server Technology

• An Overview
• By Christopher W. Baran

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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

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Server Programs and their uses

• Internet Security Acceleration Server proxy
  server
• SQL Server

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From NIX Looking In

• XP Professional and Server 2003 are much more
  manageable
• Remote Desktop
• Remote Registry
• Telnet Command Line

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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

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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

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The Other Useful Services

• DNS WINS
• DHCP
• FTP / WWW
• Routing and Remote Access
• SNMP Support
• Active Directory
• Familiar XP Style Interface

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Shadow Copy Service

• Simple for users to restore old versions of files
• Backups dont need to worry about file locks
  anymore
• Easy to configure

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FTP User Isolation

• Now ftp logins can give access to different
  directories
• An alternative to web site administration from
  Front Page Server Extensions

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Multiple DFS Roots

• DFS is fail safe/load balanced
• DFS automatically replicates files
• An alternative to clustering

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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

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Routing and Remote Access

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