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<p>The
Microsoft® Windows® 2000
Server operating system gives
administrators the tools and technologies they need to efficiently maintain
servers and networked users from a centralized location.</p>
<p>It offers new and enhanced management services and tools such as the Active Directory<sup><font SIZE="1">TM</font></sup> directory service, enterprise-class distributed security services, and the IntelliMirror<sup><font SIZE="1">TM</font></sup> set of management technologies. Together, these technologies provide the foundation for simplifying security and management of servers, networks, and Windows desktops.</p>
<p>Specifically, Windows 2000 Server lets organizations:</p>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="../../_themes/copy-of-tilt/atlbull1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Centrally manage Windows-based systems.</strong> The Windows 2000 Server management infrastructure provides the tools to manage collections of users, computers, applications, and network resources.
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changes.</strong>
Using the Active Directory and associated
IntelliMirror technologies, administrators can remotely install Windows 2000 Professional
and provide users with a personalized desktop configuration anywhere in the network. Windows 2000 Server IntelliMirror change and configuration management technologies allow administrators to predefine desktop requirements via group policy and have these policies apply whenever users log in.
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="../../_themes/copy-of-tilt/atlbull1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Manage data storage and retrieval.</strong> Windows 2000 Server Storage Management features give administrators much greater control to protect user and corporate data, particularly when used in conjunction with IntelliMirror features.
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single vendor can provide all of the enterprise management tools that
a large organization requires, Windows 2000 Server integrates
with popular third-party management platforms to create true
enterprise management solutions.
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<strong>Server Configuration Wizard</strong>
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<strong>Microsoft Management Console</strong>
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<strong>Windows Scripting Host</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Windows Scripting Host (WSH) helps automate many user interface actions, such as creating a shortcut, or connecting to or disconnecting from a network server. WSH not only frees administrators from having to invest time in automated tasks but also lets administrators avoid repeating identical tasks. <!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Terminal Services</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p>Terminal Services bring the Windows desktop environment
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<strong>Task Scheduler</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Task Scheduler allows any script, program, or document to be invoked not only at any time or interval (from every day to once a year), but also on events like system boot, user logon, or system idle.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Unattended Setup</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Unattended Setup is the method Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), administrators in corporations, Value Added Resellers (VARs), and others can use to install Windows 2000 Server and optional components without any user interaction with the computer. This technology enables faster, customized installations of the operating system.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Disk Duplication</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Corporate customers deploying thousands of Windows 2000 Server desktops and servers on identical hardware in homogeneous computing environments want to customize a single machine and then "clone" that machine's hard disk onto other desktops. Setup includes a mechanism for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Value Added Resellers (VARs), and system administrators to duplicate fully installed systems in controlled circumstances such as identical hardware and same domain configurations.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Repair Command Console</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Repair Command Console lets authorized users copy files, start and stop services, and repair the system when it is down. It also lets them repair the Master Boot Record/Boot sector, and format and fdisk volumes. This technology increases security because it eliminates the reason that some administrators have installed Windows 2000 Server on a FAT volume—so they could access the volume with a DOS boot disk.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Safe Mode Boot</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Windows 2000 Server supports a safe-mode options screen, which is accessible from the initial boot loader by pressing F8. Safe mode prevents the operating system from becoming unbootable after installing a "badly behaved" driver or an application that uses kernel mode drivers, such as file system filters.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Security Services</strong>
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In Windows 2000 Server, security
mechanisms are closely integrated with the Active
Directory. This integration makes security policy simple
to configure and makes controlling permissions and
access rights for large numbers of users easy to accomplish. Administrator rights to manage
user and group accounts can be delegated
down to the level of organizational unit
(OU). Access can be granted down to the
level of individual properties on specific objects.
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<strong>Security Configuration Manager</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Security Configuration Manager provides a one-stop security configuration and analysis tool for Windows 2000 Server. It allows configuration of various security-sensitive registry settings, access controls on files and registry keys, and security configuration of system services.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) </strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Public-key infrastructure (PKI) extends the Windows-based public-key (PK) cryptographic services providing an integrated set of services and administrative tools for creating, deploying, and managing PK-based applications.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Kerberos Authentication</strong>
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<strong>Active Directory</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Active Directory centralizes the management of network users. Administrators can structure their network into an easy-to-manage hierarchy of sites (one or more TCP/IP subnets), domains, and smaller organizational units (OUs)—instead of an undifferentiated list of thousands of users.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>IntelliMirror</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p>IntelliMirror management technologies allow administrators to centrally manage users' data, applications, desktop settings and operating system installations.
<br><br>IntelliMirror provides three main types of functionality:
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="../../_themes/copy-of-tilt/atlbull1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>User Data Management.</strong> Users can roam
to any Windows 2000 Professional-based PC on the corporate network and always have access to their data, applications, and computer preferences. Users can also take local and key network-based resources (typically files) off-line, which will automatically synchronize upon reconnecting to the network.
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="../../_themes/copy-of-tilt/atlbull1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Software Installation and Maintenance.</strong> Administrators can specify a set of applications that will always be available to a user or group of users. If a required application is not available when needed, it will automatically be installed. Auto-repair update and application removal are also supported. IT managers can deploy and maintain applications to any user or group of users in a few simple steps, without any user intervention or without visiting any desktops.
allowing administrators to define specific computing
environments for users and computers.
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<strong>Group Policy </strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p>Group Policy lets administrators control computers' system configurations and tailor users' work environments to their job responsibilities and level of computer experience. Group Policy matches desktop configurations with users whenever they logon to different workstations. In addition, Group Policy ensures that applications are correctly installed and working properly, fixing applications in need of repair.<!--mstheme--></font></td>
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<strong>Windows Installer Service</strong>
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The Windows Installer Service is
responsible for managing application installation, modification, repairs and
removal. Windows Installer Service helps reduce Dynamic
Link Library (DLL) conflicts and allows better
management of desktop applications.
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<strong>Remote OS Install</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p>Using standards-based remote
boot technology (PXE) a PC
can automatically connect to a Windows 2000 Server-based machine and install
Windows 2000 Professional or Server. The Remote OS Installation service
can be used to simply set up a new computer, upgrade a computer to
Windows 2000 Server or reformat and reinstall the operating system
on an existing machine.
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p>HSM helps keep frequently used information quickly
accessible while holding down overall storage costs. HSM
automatically moves files between disks, tapes, and optical
media. This migration process keeps the most-needed data in fast
local disk storage, while moving less-frequently-used data to slower, but less expensive, media. All files are accessed the same way, no manual effort is required to retrieve files from connected archive storage devices.
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<strong>Removable Storage Manager (RSM) </strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p>RSM presents a common interface to robotic changers and media libraries, enables multiple applications to share local libraries and tape or disk drives, and control removable media within a single-server system.
Disk Management has been improved in Windows 2000 Server by allowing administrators to perform online tasks without shutting down the system or interrupting users.
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<strong>New Backup Utility</strong>
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<strong>Microsoft Systems Management Server</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Microsoft Systems Management
Server 2.0 uses the management services built into
Windows 2000 Server. It is the ideal change and configuration management tool to use in conjunction with the IntelliMirror functions when administrators are managing in an enterprise environment. Microsoft Systems Management Server adds detailed hardware and software inventory, software metering and diagnostics facilities for Windows, as well
as providing an enterprise-class software distribution solution. It is also the ideal tool to use when deploying a Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional environment. For more information see the <a HREF="/smsmgmt/">Microsoft Systems Management Server home page <img SRC="/windows/shared/images/icoLink4.gif" WIDTH="11" HEIGHT="9" ALT="Off-site Link" BORDER="0"></a>.
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<strong>Services for UNIX</strong>
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<td><!--mstheme--><font face="Times New Roman"><p> Windows 2000 Services for UNIX (a separate add-on service) includes client and server telnet standard UNIX-style shells. The Windows Scripting Host (WSH) also allows administrators to write and execute management scripts in Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), JavaScript, REXX, Perl, Python, and TCL (among others). In many cases, these scripts can be used without modification from their original UNIX form. The combination of a flexible scripting architecture and telnet access means that a Windows 2000-based machines can be administered remotely in much the same command-line-based fashion that most UNIX servers are managed when higher-level tools are not employed.
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