TABLE OF CONTENTS The latest incarnation of Microsoft's server product, Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator's job easier. This chapter will briefly summarize what's new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. We'll also discuss how licensing works with Windows Server 2003, and provide a heads up on some of the issues you might encounter when installing the new OS or upgrading from Windows 2000. We'll look at the tools and documentation that come with Windows Server 2003 to familiarize you with new features in this version of the Microsoft operation system.
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are based on the same code and are the client and server editions of the same OS, with the same relationship to one another as Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server.
Windows XP is available in four 32-bit editions:
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
There is also a 64-bit version of XP, designed to run on the Itanium processor.
Windows Server 2003 comes in four editions (discussed later in this chapter):
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Standard Edition
Enterprise Edition
Datacenter Server
Server 2003 comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Windows XP introduced a new variation to the 9 x style GUI. The new interface is called...
