Securing Windows Server 2008

Chapter 1. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - An Overview

Solutions in this chapter:

• Server Manager
• Server Core
• Active Directory Certificate Services
• Active Directory Domain Services
• Summary
• Solutions Fast Track
• Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction

With the introduction of new revisions to Microsoft products—for example, Windows, Exchange, and Communications Server—we have seen a trend toward “roles” within each product, as opposed to the various products being an all-in-one type of solution (as with Exchange 2007), or being additional features that work as a snap-in, such as DNS in Windows 2003.

With earlier versions of Windows Server 2000 or 2003, an Active Directory server was just that—an Active Directory server. What we are trying to ...