Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft® Windows ServerTM 2003 operating system helps academic organisations achieve the seemingly impossible of doing more with less. Educational institutions are constantly under pressure to reduce costs, while ensuring they maintain an efficient IT infrastructure that enables all stakeholders—students, teachers, and administration staff—to be more productive.
Windows Server 2003 meets these needs. It helps academia meet its goals more quickly, more securely, and at a lower cost. Resources can be managed more effectively with of directory services. Learning can be enriched with media streaming, better-managed file and print services, and Web serving for Internet.
Five Reasons to Deploy Windows Server 2003
| • | Support education administration applications and virtual learning environments (VLEs) across institutions, sites, and regions. |
| • | Build applications today that you can benefit from tomorrow and beyond because of a robust development environment, with increased security and scalability. |
| • | Ready to support the latest hardware, including multi-processor servers, smart card authentication systems, and wireless connections. |
| • | Better information sharing and document collaboration due to Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services. |
Benefits for Stakeholders
Institutions
New technologies in education need to be easy to deploy, manage, and use. Windows Server 2003 contains new wizards to help set up key server roles and routine server management tasks, and an environment that’s familiar to all users in education.
Students and Teachers
Access to the online educational resources you need, when you need them, is essential for students and teachers alike. A reliable system is essential—study and teaching time is precious, and can’t be replaced when lost due to system down-time. New features in Windows Server 2003—including memory mirroring, hot add memory, and health detection in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0—help minimise technical problems. This ensures the highest-quality e-learning can take place.
System requirements
More information and FAQs
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