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What Is Windows Server System?
Windows Server System is integrated server infrastructure software from Microsoft that is designed to support end-to-end solutions built on Windows Server 2003. Windows Server 2003 is a whole-system design approach that helps you simplify development, deployment, and management. It is fundamentally designed to work together and interact coherently with other data and applications across your IT environment so that you can reduce the costs of ongoing operations, deliver high reliability and security for the future growth of your business.

Server Platform
Windows Server 2003 is the most secure and reliable server platform Microsoft has ever released. As the foundation for the Windows Server System, the server platform provides the following services:

• A common application programming model
• A common directory and security model
• Common data services
• Integrated caching
• Integrated distributed transaction management
• Integrated diagnostics
• Integrated management services
• Integrated media and collaboration services

Windows 2003 Server also makes significant advances in ease of deployment and use, helping to reduce complexity and therefore reduce costs across the IT environment.

The Windows 2003 Server Family

• Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, for the highest levels of scalability and reliability.
• Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, for mission-critical server workloads.
• Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, for departmental and standard workloads.
• Windows Server 2003, Web Edition, for Web serving and hosting.
• Windows Storage Server 2003 is a dedicated file server that brings reliable, highly available, and easy-to-manage storage to companies of all sizes.
• Windows Small Business Server 2003, as the first server for small businesses.

Operations Infrastructure

• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server is an extensible, multilayer enterprise firewall and Web cache that helps provide secure, fast, and manageable Internet connectivity. ISA Server also provides a high-performance Web proxy and cache that improves performance and delivers cost savings by effectively managing network bandwidth.
  
  
• Microsoft Systems Management Server delivers cost-effective, scalable change and configuration management for desktops and servers based on Microsoft Windows and helps administrators to distribute security updates for all Microsoft products throughout an enterprise. Built on industry-standard management protocols, Systems Management Server is compatible with complementary management tools from Microsoft and other companies.

Application Infrastructure

• Microsoft SQL Server is a complete, Web-enabled database and data analysis package that opens the door to the rapid development of a new generation of enterprise-class business applications that can give your company a critical competitive advantage. SQL Server provides core support for XML and the capability to query across the Internet and beyond the firewall.
  
  
• Microsoft BizTalk Server enables you to rapidly build and deploy integrated business processes within your organization and with partners. BizTalk Server offers a set of tools and services that make building business processes and integrating applications faster. You can quickly implement trading partner relationships independent of operating system, programming model, or programming language.
  
  
• Microsoft Speech Server, the newest integrated member of Windows Server System, delivers flexible speech technologies at the lowest total cost of ownership.

The Windows Server System Application Infrastructure helps you maximize development productivity and reduce complexity and costs. As a result, you can focus on meeting your business needs.

Information Worker Infrastructure

• Microsoft Exchange Server delivers best-in-class e-mail based collaboration services with security, reliability, and ease of access, giving information workers better control of their business communications so that enterprises of all sizes can make decisions more efficiently and compete more effectively.
  
  
• Microsoft Office Live Communication Server 2003 is the enterprise-ready platform for instant messaging (IM), presence awareness, and extensible real-time communication and collaboration that connects people, information, and business processes—enabling better decisions faster. With a familiar user experience integrated into the Microsoft Office System environment, Live Communications Server 2003 allows people to communicate without the constraints of geography, office location, or time zone.
  
  
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is the flexible portal offering that enables information workers to quickly and easily find, share, and publish information. Together, SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services give users the ability to organize information, readily access that information, manage documents, and enable efficient collaboration, all in a familiar, browser-based and Microsoft Office-integrated environment.