Microsoft Server
For IT professionals, "people-ready" can be as simple as being able to respond to business needs by making small changes to your configuration, to configuring complete new servers at the click of a button. In addition to many features that make your planning, deployment and management easier, Windows Server focuses on making your IT dynamic for any size organization.The Windows Sever Family provides a solid foundation for all of your server workload and application requirements while being easy to deploy and manage. Using three core pillars – Security, Web Platform and Virtualization, Windows Server provides a hardened secure platform to protect your server infrastructure, your data, and your business, allowing you to consolidate servers and use hardware more efficiently via virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V and Terminal Services, and provide improved Web administration, diagnostics, development, and application tools with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0).
Microsoft Windows Server
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is a cumulative service pack that includes the latest updates and provides enhancements to security and stability. In addition, it adds new features and updates to existing Windows Server 2003 features and utilities.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
MicrosoftWindows Server 2003 R2 simplifies branch server management, improves identity and access management, reduces storage management costs, provides a rich Web platform, and offers cost-effective server virtualization.
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
Forfile sharing, storage consolidation, replication, and backup and recovery, Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 offers a superior price-to-performance ratio, enhanced manageability, and increased productivity.
Windows High Performance Computing
High Performance Computing (HPC) users in multiple industries are discovering how Microsoft’s Windows HPC platform can help them make significant productivity gains. Learn how Microsoft is taking HPC further with version 2, Windows HPC Server 2008, which provides easy cluster management, enhanced collaboration, and common client and cluster development tools.
Windows Server Solutions
Windows Essential Server SolutionsWindows Essential Server Solutions are a family of server solutions designed to help boost productivity and transform small and midsize businesses by providing an integrated IT infrastructure to help save time, money, and significantly increase productivity.
Windows Essential Business Server 2008
WindowsEssential Business Server 2008 is an all-in-one integrated multi-server solution designed and priced specifically for midsize businesses.
Windows Small Business Server 2008
Windows Small Business Server 2008 is an all-in-one server solution designed to help you keep your data more secure and your company more productive.
Windows Small Business Server 2003
A complete and affordable network solution, Windows Small Business Server2003 offers an operating system, collaboration and storage tools, and more, in one package for small groups of users.
Related Resources
Microsoft Windows Server Update ServicesMicrosoft Windows Server Update Services can help you fully manage the distribution of updates released through Microsoft Update to clients inyour environments, after your testing, and on your schedule.
Microsoft Virtualization
Imagine a world where infrastructure costs decrease as system capabilities increase. Imagine a world where you can update servers, desktops and apps on a moment’s notice. Welcome to the world of virtualization –where all of this is reality, and virtually anything is possible.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Internet Information Services 7.0 is a powerful Web application and services platform that delivers rich Web-based experiences and offers improved administration and diagnostic tools to help achieve lower infrastructure costs on a variety of popular development platforms.
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
In conjunction with Windows Server 2003, Virtual Server 2005 R2provides a virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment. Hypervisor technology virtualization is now built into the Windows Server 2008 operating system.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the most advanced Windows Server operating system yet, designed to power the next generation of networks, applications, and Web services. With Windows Server 2008 you can develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within your organization.
Windows Server 2008 Product Overview
Windows Server 2008 is the most advanced Windows Server operating system yet, designed to power the next-generation of networks, applications, and Web services. With Windows Server 2008 you can develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within your organization.
Windows Server 2008 builds on the success and strengths of its Windows Server predecessors while delivering valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the base operating system. New Web tools, virtualization technologies, security enhancements, and management utilities help save time, reduce costs, and provide a solid foundation for your information technology (IT) infrastructure.
A Solid Foundation for Your Business
Windows Server 2008 provides a solid foundation for all of your server workload and application requirements while also being easy to deploy and manage. The all new Server Manager provides a unified management console that simplifies and streamlines server setup, configuration, and ongoing management. Windows PowerShell, a new command-line shell, helps enable administrators to automate routine system administration tasks across multiple servers. Windows Deployment Services provides a simplified, highly secure means of rapidly deploying the operating system via network-based installations. And Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering wizards, and full Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support plus consolidated management of Network Load Balancing, make high availability easy to implement even by IT generalists.The new Server Core installation option of Windows Server 2008 allows for installation of server roles with only the necessary components and subsystems without a graphical user interface. Fewer roles and features means minimizing disk and service footprints while reducing attack surfaces. It also enables your IT staff to specialize according to the server roles they need to support.
Virtualization Built-in
Windows Server Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, allows you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines running on a single physical machine. You can also efficiently run multiple operating systems - Windows, Linux, and others – in parallel on a single server. With Hyper-V and simple licensing policies, it's now easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization.Applications can also be efficiently virtualized using Windows Server 2008 centralized application access technologies. Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services RemoteApp allow easy remote access to standard Windows-based programs from anywhere by running them on a terminal server instead of directly on a client computer - without the need for a complicated virtual private network (VPN).
Built for the Web
Windows Server 2008 comes with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0), a Web server and security-enhanced, easy-to-manage platform for developing and reliably hosting Web applications and services. A major enhancement to the Windows Web platform, IIS 7.0 includes a componentized architecture for greater flexibility and control. IIS 7.0 also provides simplified management, powerful diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities that save time, and comprehensive extensibility.Internet Information Server IIS 7.0 together with the .NET Framework 3.0 provides a comprehensive platform for building applications that connect users and data, enabling them to visualize, share, and act on information. Additionally, IIS 7.0 plays a central role in unifying Microsoft's Web platform technologies—ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation Web services, and Windows SharePoint Services.
High Security
Windows Server 2008 is the most secure Windows Server yet. The operating system has been hardened to help protect against failure and several new technologies help prevent unauthorized connections to your networks, servers, data, and user accounts. Network Access Protection (NAP) helps ensure that computers that try to connect to your network comply with your organization's security policy. Technology integration and several enhancements make Active Directory services a potent unified and integrated Identity and Access (IDA) solution. And Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) and BitLocker Drive Encryption allow you to more securely deploy your AD database at branch office locations.High Performance Computing
The benefits and cost savings of Windows Server 2008 extend to Windows HPC Server 2008 for your high performance computing (HPC) environment. Windows HPC Server 2008 is built on Windows Server 2008, x64-bit technology and can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores with out-of-the-box functionality to improve the productivity, and reduce the complexity of your HPC environment. Windows HPC Server 2008 enables broader adoption by providing a rich and integrated end-user experience that scales from the desktop application to the clusters, and includes a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate with your existing infrastructure.