Monday, October 14, 2019

Windows servers/ Internet and Networking

Windows servers :-
Developed from the VMS platform many years ago, Microsoft Windows NT and it's successors,  Windows Server 2003 and 2008, have grown into very popular network operating systems that provide a number of built - in network services,  including
File and print services:-
These allow the administrator to share files and printers among Windows clients.
DNS and WINS services:- These allow the administrator to configure DNE and NetBIOS name resolution.
DHCP services :- These allow the administrator to configure the sever to assign IP addresses to clients on the network.
Directory services :- There allow the administrator to build a central list of objects,  such as user accounts that may be used by clients to log on to the network.  Microsoft's directory service is known as Active Directory.
Web services:- There allow the administrator to build Internet or corporate internet sites that the hosted on the server.
Eail servicea:- There allow the administrator to configure the sever to send to send e-mail using the Simple e-mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).  This feature was designed to allow application developers to build e-mail functionality into their applications .
Group policies:- These allow an administrator to deploy setting down to the client operating system from a central point.  Some of the types of settings that can be applied to clients through group policies are folder redirection,  file permissions, user rights, and installation of software.
We will look at those network services in a later chapters;  the point now is that the network operating systems usually come with these features and all you need to do is install or configure them on the server.
      One of the major factors that led to the popularity of the Windows based server operating systems is that Microsoft developed a user interface on the server that was similar to the client operating systems,  such as Windows 98, Windows 2000 Professional,  and Windows XP Professional.  This dramatically reduces the learning curve that someone new to network operating systems has to go through. 
       The fact that the user interface on the server operating system is the same as that on the client operating system means that the learning curve for the server operating system is dramatically reduced.  The other thing that led to the  rapid growth of the installed base for Windows - based server is the  fact that Windows servers made it very easy to canfigurenth4 services that were mentioned previously.  For example,  to install a DNS server,  WINS server,  or DHCP server,  you simply go to Add/Remove Programs and install those services as you would install solitaire on a desktop operating system. 

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