Thread: Windows Server 2003-Feature

Server 2003 is the improved version of window server 2000. It provides hundreds of new items such as new installation and migration wizards, Active directory improvements, improved file and print services, major security improvements, a new group policy management consol, role based management tools, window media services, enhanced terminal services .Net platform, improved support for storag
management, volume shadow copies, revamped Web server and so"on. It also provides better and faster performance. Some of the major features of Window server 2003 are:

Security and Reliability:

Lockdown feature is one of the most prevailing security feature with great reliability. Administration security and new software restriction policies are the major steps for the security that provides superior template and editing for user configuration.



Scalability:

Scalability is the measurement of percentage of performance and Windows 2003 server supports 32-bit as well as 64-bit processors that increase its percentage of performance. In context to file system, Active directory, and networking services Windows 2003 server delivers great performance touching up to 140 percent.

Performance:

With greater security, reliability, and much greater scalability, performance factor is automatically increased. The greater performance put Windows server in the series of Unix-based systems. Though the fundamental code is based on Windows server 2000, but window server 2003 performs enough changes to improve the performance particularly in concert with SOL server. Windows Server 2003 is very much faster from a GUI, program loading, and execution point of view.