Microsoft windows server code name "Longhorn" is the next generation of the windows server operating system that helps information technology (IT) professionals maximize control over their infrastructure while providing unprecedented availability and management capabilities, leading to a significantly more secure, reliable, and robust server environment than ever before. windows server "Longhorn" delivers new value to organizations by ensuring all users regardless of location are able to get the full complement of services from the network. windows server "Longhorn" also provides deep insight into the operating system and diagnostic capabilities to allow administrators to spend more time adding business value.

windows server "Longhorn" builds on the success and strengths of the award-winning windows server 2003 operating system and on the innovations delivered in Service Pack 1 and windows server 2003 R2. However, windows server "Longhorn" is far more than a refinement of predecessor operating systems. windows server "Longhorn" is designed to provide organizations with the most productive platform for powering applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the datacenter with exciting, valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the base operating system.

In addition to new functionality, windows server "Longhorn" provides powerful improvements to the base operating system over windows server 2003. Notable improvements include those to networking, advanced security features, remote application access, centralized server role management, performance and reliability monitoring tools, failover clustering, deployment, and the file system. These improvements and many others help organizations maximize the flexibility, availability, and control of their servers.

windows Vista and windows server "Longhorn" originally began as part of a single development project, and as such they share a number of new technologies across networking, storage, security and management. Although the development of windows Vista and windows server "Longhorn" have branched into separate releases with different release cycles, many of these enhancements apply to both windows Vista and windows server "Longhorn." When organizations deploy both operating systems, they will see how the combined client-server infrastructure provides even greater advantages.

Benefits of windows server "Longhorn"
More Control
windows server "Longhorn" allows you to get more control over your server and network infrastructure, allowing you to focus on your most critical business needs by providing:
· Simplified management of your IT infrastructure by using new tools that provide a one-stop interface for server configuration and monitoring, as well as the ability to automate routine tasks.
· Streamlined installation and management of windows server "Longhorn" by installing only the roles and features you need. The customization of the server configuration simplifies ongoing maintenance by minimizing the attack surface area and reducing the need for software updates.
· Effectively pinpointing and resolving trouble spots with powerful diagnostic tools that give you ongoing visibility into your server environment, both physical and virtual.
· Increased control over servers located in remote locations, such as the branch office. With optimized server administration and data replication, you can provide users with better service while reducing management headaches.
· Simplified Web server management with Internet Information Services 7.0, which is a powerful Web platform for applications and services. This modular platform provides a simplified, task-based management interface, greater cross-site control, security enhancements, and integrated health management for Web services.
· Increased control over your user settings with Expanded Group Policy

Greater Flexibility
windows server "Longhorn" provides you with the flexibility to create an agile and dynamic datacenter to meet your changing business needs by providing:
· Built-in virtualization to virtualize multiple operating systems—Windows, Linux and others—on a single server. With virtualization built into the operating system and with simpler, more flexible licensing policies, its now easier than ever to take advantage of all the benefits and cost savings of virtualization.
· Centralized application access and seamless integration of remotely published applications. Improvements also add the ability to connect to remote applications across firewalls and without the use of a VPN, so you can quickly respond to the needs of your users, regardless of their location.
· New deployments options to provide the most suitable method for your environment.
· Flexible and comprehensive applications that connect users to each other and their data, enabling them to visualize, share, and act on information.
· Interoperability with your existing environment.
· Robust and vibrant technical community to provide a rich experience throughout the product life cycle

Increased Protection
windows server "Longhorn" hardens the operating system and protects your environment to provide a solid foundation on which you can run and build your business. windows server protects against failure and intrusion for servers, networks, data, and user accounts by providing:
· Protection of your server with security innovations that reduce attack surface area of the kernel, resulting in a more robust and secure server environment.
· Protection of your network access with Network Access Protection that gives you the power to isolate computers that dont comply with security policies you set. The ability to enforce security requirements is a powerful means of protecting your network.
· Enhanced solutions for intelligent rules and policies creation to increase control and protection over networking functions, allowing you to have a policy-driven network.
· Protection of your data to ensure it can only be accessed by users with the correct security context, and to make it available when hardware failures occur.
· Protection against malicious software with User Account Control with a new authentication architecture.
· Increased dependability with advanced reliability enhancements to reduce loss of access, work, time, data, and control


Windows server "Longhorn" Technologies
More Control
Maintaining control of the servers on a network—and, more importantly, access to the servers on a network—is a fundamental priority for network administrators. To this end, windows server "Longhorn" contains two new areas of functionality to help administrators extend and maximize their control over access to network servers: Network Access Protection and Internet Information Services 7.0.

Server Manager: A new feature that is included in windows server "Longhorn." It is a "one-stop-shop" designed to guide Information Technology administrators through the end-to-end process of installing, configuring, and managing server roles and features that are part of windows server "Longhorn." server Manager replaces and consolidates a number of features from Microsoft windows server 2003 such as Manage Your Server, Configure Your Server, and Add or Remove windows Components. You can use server Manager to configure various "roles" and "features" on your machine.

Windows PowerShell: A new command-line shell with over 130 tools and an integrated scripting language. It enables administrator to more easily control and securely automate routine system administration tasks, especially across multiple servers. windows PowerShell does not require you to migrate your existing scripts, and it is ideally suited for automation of new windows server "Longhorn" features. A new admin-focused scripting language, and consistent syntax and utilities, windows PowerShell accelerates automation of system administration tasks—such as Active Directory, Terminal Server, and Internet Information server (IIS) 7.0—and improves your organizations ability to address the unique system management problems of your environment.

windows PowerShell is easy to adopt, learn, and use, because it does not require a background in programming, and it works with your existing IT infrastructure, existing scripts, and existing command-line tools.

Internet Information Services 7.0: windows server "Longhorn" delivers a unified platform for Web publishing that integrates Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, ASP.NET, windows Communication Foundation, windows Workflow Foundation, and windows SharePoint Services 3.0. IIS 7.0 is a major enhancement to the existing windows Web server and plays a central role in integrating Web platform technologies. IIS 7.0 helps developers and administrators alike maximize their control over network/Internet interfaces through key functionality pillars that include delegated administration, enhanced security and a reduced attack surface area, integrated application and health management for Web services, and improved administration tools.

Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC): A new type of domain controller configuration in the windows server "Longhorn" operating system that makes it possible for organizations to easily deploy a domain controller in locations where the physical security of a domain controller cannot be guaranteed. An RODC hosts a read-only replica of the Active Directory directory services database for a given domain. Prior to this release, users who had to authenticate with a domain controller, but were in a branch office that could not provide adequate physical security for a domain controller, had to authenticate over a wide area network (WAN). In many cases, this was not an efficient solution. By placing a read-only Active Directory database replica closer to branch users, these users can benefit from faster logon times and more efficient access to authentication resources on the network, even in environments with inadequate physical security to deploy a traditional domain controller.


Greater Flexibility
As business needs change, so do the demands that organizations place on their servers. At the same time, advances in the capabilities of server technology change the ways in which organizations and end users utilize them. windows server "Longhorn" is designed so that you can modify your infrastructure to adapt to the changing needs of the business and still remain agile. For organizations that need domain controllers in physically less secure locations or strictly for use with line-of-business applications, windows server "Longhorn" offers a new configuration option: the Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC). For organizations that have remote users, windows server "Longhorn" adds exciting improvements and innovations to Terminal Services that facilitate seamless integration of remote and local applications on client computers, access to these same remote programs via Web browser, and a means to access remote terminals and applications across firewalls. For organizations that need to roll out several servers and PCs at the same time, windows Deployment Services helps to quickly and easily deploy new computers to the network using image-based deployments.

Server Core: Beginning with the Beta 2 release of windows server "Longhorn," administrators can choose to install windows server with only the services required to perform the DHCP, DNS, file server, or domain controller roles. This new installation option will not install non-essential services and applications and will provide base server functionality without any extra overhead. While the server Core installation option is a fully functioning mode of the operating system supporting one of the designate roles, it does not include the server graphic user interface (GUI). Because server Core installations include only what is required for the designated roles, a server Core installation will typically require less maintenance and fewer updates as there are fewer components to manage. In other words, since there are fewer programs and components installed and running on the server, there are fewer attack vectors exposed to the network, resulting in a reduced attack surface. If a security flaw or vulnerability is discovered in a component that is not installed, a patch is not required.

Terminal Services: windows server "Longhorn" introduces new functionality in Terminal Services to connect to remote computers and applications. Terminal Services Remote Programs completely integrates applications running on a remote terminal with users desktops such that they behave as if they were running on an individual users local computer; users can run programs from a remote location side-by-side with their local programs. Terminal Services Web Access permits this same flexibility of remote application access via Web browser, granting an even wider variety of ways user can access and use programs running on remote terminals. And Terminal Services Gateway allows user to access remote terminals and remote terminal programs in a firewall-friendly manner.

Windows Deployment Services (WDS): An updated and redesigned windows server "Longhorn" version of Remote Installation Services (RIS), WDS assists with the rapid adoption and deployment of image-based windows operating systems. WDS allows network-based installation of windows Vista and windows server "Longhorn" to "bare metal" computers (no operating system installed), and even supports mixed environments including Microsoft windows XP and Microsoft windows server 2003. windows Deployment Services thus provides an end-to-end solution for deployment of windows operating systems to client and server computers and reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) and complexity of windows server "Longhorn" and windows Vista deployments.


Increased Protection
Network Access Protection (NAP): A new framework that allows an IT administrator to define health requirements for the network and to restrict computers that do not meet these requirements from communicating with the network. NAP enforces administrator-defined policies that describe the health requirements for the given organization. For example, health requirements may be defined to include all updates to the operating system be installed, or having antivirus or antispyware software installed and updated. In this way, network administrators can define the baseline level of protection all computers carry when connecting to the network.

Microsoft BitLocker provides additional security for your data through full volume encryption on multiple drives, even when the system is in unauthorized hands or running a different operating system time, data, and control.

Failover Clustering: Improvements are aimed to makes it easier to configure server clusters while providing protection and availability of your data and applications. By using the new Validate Tool in failover clusters, you can perform tests to determine whether your system, storage, and network configuration is suitable for a cluster. With failover clusters in windows server "Longhorn," administrators can carry out setup and migration tasks, as well as management and operations tasks more easily. Improvements to the cluster infrastructure help administrators maximize availability of the services they provide to users, achieve better storage and network performance and improve security.


Product Editions
Windows server "Longhorn" Standard Edition
This edition of windows server "Longhorn" provides key server functionality across most server roles and features. It includes both full and server Core installation options.

Windows server "Longhorn" Enterprise Edition
This edition builds on windows server "Longhorn" Standard Edition to provide greater scalability and availability, and adds enterprise technologies such as Failover Clustering and Active Directory Federation Services.

Windows server "Longhorn" Datacenter Edition
This edition offers the same functionality as windows server "Longhorn" Enterprise Edition with support for additional memory and processors, and unlimited virtual image use rights.

Windows Web server "Longhorn"
This edition is designed specifically for use as a web and applications server. Other server roles and the server Core installation option are not available in this edition.

Windows server "Longhorn" for Itanium-based Systems
This edition is designed for use with Intel Itanium 64-bit processors to provide web and applications server functionality on that platform. Other server roles and features may not be available

This product requires a valid product key for activation – you may install the product without activation, but if you do not enter a valid product key and activate within 30 days of installation, the software will cease to function. During installation you will be asked to select the edition of windows server "Longhorn" Beta 3 you wish to install. You must ensure you choose the edition of windows server "Longhorn" Beta 3 for which you have obtained a product key or you will not be able to activate the product.


Here are some key features of "Windows Longhorn":

· Maintenance is greatly simplified by the use of a single model for updates and service packs across client and server.
· Client computers can monitor for specific events and forward to windows server "Longhorn" for centralized monitoring and reporting.
· windows Deployment Services provides much faster and more reliable operating system deployment.
· Network Access Protection features on windows server "Longhorn" ensure that windows Vista clients connecting to the network are compliant with security policies and restricted from accessing network resources if not. The reliability, scalability, and overall responsiveness of the infrastructure are greatly increased by improvements made to both windows Vista and windows server "Longhorn."
· Clients can render print jobs locally before sending them to print servers to reduce the load on the server and increase its availability.
· server resources are cached locally so that they are available even if the server is not, with copies automatically updating when the client and server are reconnected.
· Applications or scripts that need to run on both client and server can take advantage of the Transactional File System to reduce the risk of error during file and registry operations and roll back to a known good state in the event of failure or cancellation.
· Policies can be created to ensure greater Quality of Service for certain applications or services that require prioritization of network bandwidth between client and server. windows Vista clients connecting to networks where windows server "Longhorn" has been deployed can experience greatly improved communication speeds and reliability.
· Searching windows server "Longhorn" servers from a windows Vista client avails of enhanced indexing and caching technologies on both to provide huge performance gains across the enterprise.
· Native IPv6 support across all client and server services creates a more scalable and reliable network, while the rewritten TCP/IP stack makes network communication much faster and more efficient.
· The new server Message Block 2.0 protocol provides a number of communication enhancements, including greater performance when connecting to file shares over high-latency links and better security through the use of mutual authentication and message signing.
· Terminal Services on windows server "Longhorn" have many improvements, including providing windows Vista clients with remote access to internal resources through an HTTP gateway and seamless remote applications that run as if on the local desktop.

The Sambar server is a multi-threaded HTTP, FTP and Proxy server for Windows.

Sambar Technologies is a leading provider of website, email, instant messaging, and document management tools for organizations and individuals.

The Sambar server is used by thousands of businesses, schools, service providers and individuals around the world to enhance communication and collaboration. From web, email and IM, to document management and application sharing, the Sambar server supports it all from one proven, reliable platform.

A Sambar server Pro license is available which enables additional server functionality: Mail, DNS, SOCKs, Document Management and more.

Here are some key features of "Sambar Server":

· Jabber/XMPP server
· WebDAV
· Content Management
· Document Versioning
· Search Engine
· Usage Throttling
· Mail server
· Native Servlets/JSP
· CRON Daemon
· Proxy server
· Socks Proxy
· Reverse Proxy
· FTP server
· IRC server
· TFTP server
· DNS server
· DHCP server
· SSL Support


Limitations:

· The additional server functionality (e.g. mail server, DNS server, DHCP server) is disabled in the demo version.
· The demo evaluation license will only permit the server to function between 9AM and 5PM in your local time zone.

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for windows released on windows Update on February 12th, 2008. February 2007 Security and Critical Releases ISO Image does not contain security updates for any other Microsoft products.

This DVD5 ISO image is intended for corporate administrators who manage large multinational organizations, who need to download multiple individual language versions of each security update and who do not use an automated solution such as WSUS. Use this image to download multiple updates in all languages at the same time.

Caution: Be sure to check the individual security bulletins at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security prior to deployment of these updates to ensure that the files have not been updated at a later date.

This DVD5 image contains the following updates:

KB931374 / (MS08-003)
· windows server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages

KB943484 / (MS08-003)
· windows 2000 - 24 languages
· windows server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages

KB946456 / (MS08-004)
· windows Vista - 36 languages
· windows Vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

KB942831 / (MS08-005)
· windows 2000 - 24 languages
· windows server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
· windows Vista - 36 languages
· windows Vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

KB942830 / (MS08-006)
· windows server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages

KB946026 / (MS08-007)
· windows server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
· windows Vista - 36 languages
· windows Vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

KB943055 / (MS08-008)
· windows 2000 - 24 languages
· windows server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
· windows Vista - 36 languages
· windows Vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

KB944533 / (MS08-010)
· windows 2000 - 24 languages
· windows server 2003 - 18 languages
· windows server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
· windows server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
· windows XP - 24 languages
· windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
· windows Vista - 36 languages
· windows Vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages

Requirements:

· windows 2000 Service Pack 4; windows server 2003 Service Pack 1; windows server 2003 Service Pack 1 for Itanium-based Systems; windows server 2003 Service Pack 2; windows server 2003 Service Pack 2 x64 Edition; windows server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition; windows server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition; windows server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; windows Vista; windows Vista Business 64-bit edition; windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition; windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition; windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition; windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; windows XP Service Pack 2

A high performance 32-bit X-Windows server for windows 95 or NT. All X-Windows applications are integrated with the Microsoft windows environment and can be sized, opened and closed in the same way as any other windows programs.

windows Home server Toolkit description
A collection of tools that help you troubleshoot issues with windows Home Server The windows Home server Toolkit is a collection of tools that help you troubleshoot issues with windows Home Server. The toolkit has the following components:

· Error Reporting
The Error Reporting tool collects log files from your home computer and sends them to Microsoft. These log files are useful to Microsoft Support when troubleshooting problems you may encounter with windows Home Server.

· Windows Home server Connector Troubleshooter
The windows Home server Connector Troubleshooter is a program that runs on your home computer to help troubleshoot problems you may encounter while installing the Connector software. The Connector Troubleshooter runs a series of tests to check the most common Connector Setup problems, and then it recommends possible solutions.

· Windows Home server Toolkit Add-in
You can also use the Troubleshooter to install a windows Home server Toolkit Add-in on your home server. With this Add-in, you can run troubleshooting tasks from the windows Home server Console Settings page.

Requirements:

· .NET 2.0, MSI 3.0

Proxy server software - windows 95, windows 98, windows ME, windows NT and windows 2000 internet connection sharing software for business or home from Computalynx, including filtering, antivirus, firewall and free trial to download

Proxy server software - windows 95, windows 98, windows ME, windows NT and windows 2000 internet connection sharing software for business or home from Computalynx, including filtering, antivirus, firewall and free trial to download.

windows 2000 Authorization Manager Runtime description
A windows 2000 server version of the windows server 2003 Authorization Manager Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) API The windows 2000 Authorization Manager Runtime is a windows 2000 server version of the windows server 2003 Authorization Manager Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) API.

windows server 2003 family operating systems introduced the Authorization Manager RBAC framework which includes the Authorization Manager API and Role-based MMC snap-in Administration UI (Authorization Manager Snap-in UI is only available on windows server 2003 family operating systems and on the windows server 2003 Administration Pack for windows XP.)

The Authorization Manager API provides a simplified development model in which to manage flexible groups and business rules and store authorization policies.

Storage in Active Directory requires the domain to be at windows server 2003 functional level.

Using the windows 2000 Authorization Manager Runtime you can build server applications to use the Authorization Manager Role-based access control model that run on windows 2000 server family operation systems

windows server Update Services description
windows server Update Services with Service Pack 1 (WSUS SP1) is a software that delivers updates for WSUS WSUS delivers new features that enable administrators to more easily manage and deploy updates across the organization. This package installs both the WSUS 3.0 server and WSUS 3.0 Administration Console components. You must install the server components on a computer running windows server 2003 SP1 and later. You may install the Administration Console on a remote computer running windows XP SP2, windows server 2003 SP1, or windows Vista.

Instructions
Before installing WSUS 3.0, see the Release Notes for WSUS 3.0 available from the related resources area on this page. If you are installing WSUS 3.0 on Small Business server 2003 R2, see the SBS white paper available from the related resources on this page.

Important configuration issue: You must overwrite the proxy server password in the configuration wizard

If you are using a proxy server that requires username/password authentication, the WSUS server may fail to synchronize updates if you do not overwrite the proxy server password when running the WSUS server Configuration Wizard. Since the configuration wizard is launched automatically at the end of setup, this problem can cause synchronization errors after you upgrade from an older version of WSUS to WSUS 3.0.

You can avoid this problem by cancelling the Configuration Wizard after upgrade, or by reentering the correct proxy password when the wizard runs. To recover from this problem once it has occurred, go to “Options/Update Source and Proxy Server”, reenter the proxy password, and save the setting.

Additional Information
The shortcut to launch WSUS 3.0 Administration Console can be found in the Administrative Tools folder. For windows XP SP2 or windows Vista, the Administrative Tools folder can be found in the Control Panel.


WSUS 3.0 server Installation on windows Small Business server 2003
Microsoft windows server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 provides a comprehensive solution for managing updates within your windows Small Business server network. WSUS 3.0 is supported on windows Small Business server 2003 with server Pack 1 and windows Small Business server 2003 R2.
If you would like to take advantage of the improved features offered by WSUS 3.0, then you can do so by installing WSUS 3.0 on you server running windows Small Business server 2003.
Use this document to perform the following:
· Install WSUS 3.0 on a server running windows Small Business server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or windows Small Business server 2003 R2.
· Upgrade the server that is running WSUS 3.0 for managing updates from windows Small Business server 2003 with Service Pack 1 to windows SBS 2003 R2.
· Uninstall and reinstall Window SBS 2003 R2 components on a server running WSUS 3.0 for managing updates.
· Troubleshoot WSUS 3.0.


Requirements:

Supported Operating Systems: windows server 2003 Service Pack 1

WSUS 3.0 server Software Prerequisites:
· windows server 2003 SP1 or later
· IIS 6.0 or later
· Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
· Microsoft Management Console 3.0
· Microsoft Report Viewer
· SQL server 2005 SP1 is optional. Note if a compatible version of SQL server is not installed already, WSUS 3.0 will install windows Internal Database.

WSUS 3.0 Administration Console Software Prerequisites:
· Additional Supported Operating Systems: windows server 2003 SP1 or later, windows XP SP2 and windows Vista
· Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
· Microsoft Management Console 3.0
· Microsoft Report Viewer

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