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Extending Your Business with Advanced
Web and Application Services
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Introduction
The Microsoft� Windows� 2000 Server
operating system provides the services you need to deliver
content and applications to your employees, customers, business
partners�and the world�through the Web. Building on the
strength of the Web and application services in the Microsoft�
Windows NT� 4.0 operating system, Windows 2000 delivers the
latest advances in Web server, scripting, component services,
and data access and XML technologies. The combination is also
tightly integrated with the Active DirectoryTM
service to provide unprecedented manageability, extranet and
electronic commerce capabilities.
Because the Web and application services in
Windows 2000 are integrated at the operating system level,
applications can take advantage of the reliability, scalability
and security that only Windows 2000 can provide. Whether you are
targeting employees, customers or business partners, Windows
2000 is the best way to get ahead in Digital Business.
 | Web Services: Windows 2000 erases
the lines between your network and the Internet, letting
your employees immediately take advantage of new ways to
share information. Internet Information Services 5.0 (IIS),
the Windows 2000 integrated Web server includes support for
the latest internet standards like WWW Distributed Authoring
and Versioning (WebDAV), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
compression, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) session restart,
and digest authentication. It also delivers new levels of
Web server scalability and reliability. It can even
automatically restart itself if a bad Web application does
cause a crash. IIS 5.0 includes an enhanced version of the
high performance, industry proven server-scripting
environment, Active Server Pages (ASP).
| | Application Services: Windows 2000
integrates the industry-leading Web server and component
development model: IIS 5.0, and COM+ Component Services. The
combination of IIS 5.0 and COM+ Services delivers the
important infrastructure that application developers need to
build scalable distributed applications quickly and easily:
An object based programming model, HTTP processing (IIS
5.0), an industry proven server-scripting environment (ASP),
object pooling, database access, high performance Extensible
Markup Language (XML) processing, transaction management,
messaging and routing, and state management. Thus, Windows
2000 delivers the full range of services you need to build
really powerful Web applications.
| | Open software and data integration:
Windows 2000 Server supports a full range of industry
standards to allow you to build applications that integrate
with databases, mail servers, (XML, and other existing
systems. XML is particularly important, because just as HTML
lets developers describe the format of a Web document, XML
lets them describe complex data structures. Developers can
share this information across a variety of applications,
clients, and servers. Windows 2000 includes a high
performance, scalable XML processor.
| | High performance and reliability:
You can meet the higher performance and workload
requirements typical to Web-enabled applications with
applications that can scale to meet even the most demanding
load. In addition, Windows 2000 Web Services take advantage
of the increased reliability of the Windows 2000 operating
system, and enhancements to the core Web Services to ensure
that your Web sites and Web applications stay up and
running. Windows 2000 Advanced Server integrates Microsoft
Clustering Services (MSCS) to provide 2-node application and
data failover support.
| | Scalability: You can grow your web
site capacity as your business grows by scaling up or
scaling out. Scale up by adding processors and memory or
purchasing larger servers. With great symmetric
multi-processor (SMP) support, Windows 2000 Server takes
full advantage of the additional computing resources. Scale
out using Network Load Balancing (NLB) to build Web farms.
With integrated Network Load Balancing, Windows 2000
Advanced Server can scale out to support the busiest sites
on the Internet.
| | Integrated security: An expanded set
of security features allows you to protect your most
sensitive applications and data. Windows 2000 Web Services
provides 128-bit security and takes advantage of the latest
security standards such as Digest Authentication, Kerberos
v5 authentication and Fortezza. Because Windows 2000
includes Active Directory, application developers can take
advantage of object naming and location services, user
authentication services, single sign-on, and centralized
configuration and policy management.
| | Simplified management: A host of new
features make it easier than ever to manage your Web
servers. For example, the improved ease of local and remote
management in Windows 2000 helps reduce the amount of time
spend managing the system. Windows 2000 Web Services provide
a number of mechanisms that allow administrators to manage
remote systems. Improved management features make it easier
to run multiple sites from a single server.
| | Hardware Support: Windows 2000 lets
you take advantage of the latest hardware like
multi-processor systems and commerce accelerators to make
your site even faster and more secure. |
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