Windows
Registry Services
A registry administration is a database of client records and other data that system directors use to control access to shared system assets. At the point when clients associate with a system, they must be verified before they can get to network assets.
Verification is the procedure of checking the client's qualifications (more often than not a client name and a secret key) against the index. Clients that supply the correct accreditations are allowed access as per the authorizations indicated by the system executive.
Customer Support
Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Windows 2000 Professional, Xp Pro. Vista Ultimate, Vista Business.
Interoperability
Windows 2000,2003,2008 Server underpins UNIX, Novell NetWare, Windows NT Server 4.0, and Macintosh.
Confirmation
Fruitful client verification in a Windows 2000,2003,2008 figuring environment comprises of partitioned procedures: intelligent logon, which affirms the client's distinguishing proof to either an area account or a nearby PC, and system confirmation, which affirms the client's recognizable proof to any system benefit that the client endeavors to get to.
Sorts of validation
Kerberos V5 is utilized with either a secret key or a shrewd card for intuitive logon. It is likewise the default system for system confirmation for services.The Kerberos V5 convention checks both the personality of the client and system administrations Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) verification, is utilized when a client endeavors to get to a protected Web server.
Document and Print Services
You can include and keep up printers in Windows server utilizing the print organization wizard, and you can include document shares utilizing Active Directory administration apparatuses. Windows server additionally offers Distributed File Services, which let you consolidate records on more than one server into a solitary offer.
Dynamic Directory
After numerous years of expectation, Microsoft presented an undertaking index administration in the Windows 2000 Server product offering, called Active Directory. It utilizes a various leveled tree configuration included compartment and leaf objects. The basic unit of association in Active Directory index administration is the space, yet; you can gather areas together into a tree, and even gathering various trees together into a woods. Areas that are in the same tree naturally have bidirectional trust connections set up between them, which disposes of the requirement for executives to make them physically. The trust connections are likewise transitive , implying that if Domain A trusts Domain B and Domain B trusts Domain C, then Domain A trusts Domain C.
Security
Client level security ensures shared system assets by requiring that a security supplier validate a client's solicitation to get to assets. The area controller , gifts access to the mutual asset by confirming that the client name and secret key are the same as those on the client record rundown put away on the system security supplier. Since the security supplier keeps up a system wide rundown of client records and passwords, every customer PC does not need to store a rundown of records. Offer level security ensures imparted system assets on the PC to independently allocated passwords. For instance, you can relegate a secret key to an organizer or a privately appended printer. In the event that different clients need to get to it, they have to sort in the suitable watchword. On the off chance that you don't relegate a secret word to a common asset, each client with access to the system can get to that asset.
Appleshare IP (Internet Protocol)
Customer Support
TCP/IP document imparting to Macintosh customers utilizing Network File System (NFS), and File Transfer Apple File Protocol 3.0.
Interoperability
Windows Server Message Block (SMB) document sharing.
Document and Print Services
Document Services:
Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) over TCP/IP and AppleTalk
Server Message Block (SMB) over TCP/IP
Document Transfer Protocol (FTP) over TCP/IP
Print Services:
PAP (AppleTalk)
LPR/LPD
Application Support
HTTP
Mail (SMTP, POP, IMAP and Authenticated Post Office Protocol APOP)
Macintosh CGI
