1. 1.1 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Goals  Introduce the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems  Differentiate between the different editions of Windows Server 2003  Explore the features of Windows Server 2003

2. 1.2 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introducing the Windows Server 2003 Family of Operating Systems Windows Server 2003 products  Standard Edition: for small to medium-sized businesses  Enterprise Edition: for mission-critical server workloads  Datacenter Edition: for medium to large-sized organizations that require high levels of scalability and reliability  Web Edition: for dedicated Web serving and hosting; also a platform for building and hosting Web applications (Skill 1)

3. 1.3 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Figure 1-1 The four main products in the Windows Server 2003 family (Skill 1)

4. 1.4 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition  Designed for everyday needs of small to medium businesses or as a departmental server for larger organizations  Provides file and print services, secure Internet connectivity, centralized management of network resources  Logical upgrade path for Windows 2000 Server  Can be used as a domain controller, member server, or standalone server

5. 1.5 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (continued)

6. 1.6 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition  Generally used for medium to large businesses  Designed for organizations that require better performance, reliability, and availability than Standard Edition provides  Provides support for mission-critical applications  Available in both 32 and 64-bit editions

7. 1.7 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (continued)

8. 1.8 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (continued)

9. 1.9 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition  Designed for mission-critical applications, very large databases, and information access that requires the highest levels of availability  Can only be obtained from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)

10. 1.10 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition (continued)

11. 1.11 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Web Edition  Lower-cost edition  Designed for hosting and deploying Web services and applications  Meant for small to large companies or departments that develop and/or deploy Web services

12. 1.12 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Web Edition (continued)

13. 1.13 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introduction to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory  Provides the following services  Central point for storing and managing network objects  Central point for administration of objects and resources  Logon and authentication services  Delegation of administration

14. 1.14 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 1: Introducing Windows Server 2003 Introduction to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory (continued)  Stored on domain controllers in the network  Changes made to any Active Directory will be replicated across all domain controllers  Multimaster replication  Fault tolerance for domain controller failure  Uses Domain Name Service (DNS) conventions for network resources