Windows Server 2003 R2 Reviewer's Guide Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2

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Product Overview 1

Product Overview 1

Simplified Branch Server Management 1

Simplified Identity and Access Management 2

Efficient Storage Management 3

Improved Web Platform 3

Cost-Effective Virtualization 4

Windows Server 2003 R2 Primer 5

Windows Server 2003 R2 Primer 5

Release Philosophy 5

Integration with Windows Server 2003 SP1 5

About Windows Server 2003 SP1 5

Updates 5

Enhancements 6

New features 6

Why Should Organizations Deploy Windows Server 2003 SP1? 7

Editions and Features 7

System Requirements 8

Getting Started with Windows Server 2003 R2 9

To start Setup for a new installation from the product CDs 9

To start Setup for a new installation from the network 9

To start an upgrade on a computer running Windows Server 2003 (without SP1) 10

To start an upgrade on a computer running Windows Server 2003 with SP1 10

To start an upgrade on a computer running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 or Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 11

Technical Overview 12

Technical Overview 12

Simplified Branch Office Server Management 12

Branch Office 12

Distributed File System 12

Remote Differential Compression 12

Distributed File System Replication 13

Distributed File System Namespace 13

Print Management Console 13

Simplified Identity and Access Management 14

Active Directory Federation Services 14

Classic Web SSO 14

Federated Web SSO 14

Federated Authorization and .NET Integration 14

Extensible architecture 15

Web Services interoperability 15

What Is ADFS: In-Depth Information 15

ADFS Requirements 16

Hardware requirements 16

Software requirements 16

Federation Service 16

Active Directory and ADAM account store requirements 16

Federation Service Proxy 16

ADFS Web Service Agent 17

Trusted certification authorities 17

TCP/IP network connectivity 17

DNS 17

Web server 17

Web browser 17

Active Directory Application Mode 17

ADAM Overview 18

What's new in ADAM 18

Microsoft directory technologies 18

Comparing ADAM to Active Directory 19

UNIX Identity Management 19

Efficient Storage Management 20

Storage Manager for SANs 20

LUN management for Fibre Channel subsystems 20

LUN management for iSCSI subsystems 20

File Server Resource Management 21

Storage Resource Manager quotas vs. NTFS disk quotas 21

Microsoft Services for Network File System 21

Improved Web Platform 22

Windows SharePoint Services 22

Applications for Windows SharePoint Services 22

SharePoint sites – file storage plus collaboration 22

SharePoint Central Administration – Web browser interface for managing servers 23

ASP.NET 2.0 23

Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 23

Cost-Effective Virtualization 24

Additional Features 24

Web Services for Management 24

Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications 24

Support for 64-bit Applications 25

Common Log File System 25

MMC 3.0 26

Action pane 26

New Add/Remove Snap-in dialog box 26

Improved error handling 26

Summary 27

Summary 27

Related Links 28

Related Links 28

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