Business Benefits of Windows Server System

Windows Server System helps you keep the business running while lowering the complexity and cost of managing your server infrastructure. Simply put, Windows Server System helps you do more with less. This page tells you how.

Reduce Cost and Complexity of the Core Infrastructure

Increase Operational Efficiency Here's how you can lower the cost, time, and effort of administering your IT infrastructure and supporting your users and desktops.

•	Maintain Fewer Servers Help your organization reduce costs, increase efficiency, and achieve greater availability, scalability, and value through infrastructure optimization and server consolidation.

•	Reduce the Cost of Network Storage Let the Windows Server 2003 platform simplify your file server migration and consolidation efforts and streamline the management of your storage infrastructure.

•	Improve Platform Manageability Let Microsoft Solutions for Management (MSM) help you achieve operational excellence through delivering higher service quality, reliability, availability, security, and lower total cost of ownership for Windows environments.

•	Increase Hardware Efficiency with Virtual Server 2005 Discover the most cost-effective virtual machine solution designed for Windows Server 2003 to increase operational efficiency in software test and development, legacy application re-hosting, and server consolidation scenarios.

Simplify Infrastructure Management and Upkeep

Increase Operational Efficiency You can easily manage, monitor, and automate your IT environment using the simple, familiar, and integrated tools in Windows Server System.

•	Automate Information Access with Identity Management Learn how you can automate identity and access management to reduce operational costs while increasing security.

•	Rely on Management Services in Windows Server 2003 Simplify and automate the management of Windows-based environments, increase IT effectiveness, and reduce costs with new and enhanced management services.

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Get Out-of-the-box Manageability

Watch this demo to see how you can remotely manage desktops and users with Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Group Policy. To view this Flash demo, you need Microsoft Internet Explorer and the Macromedia Flash Player. For best results, use a high-speed Internet connection and set your screen resolution to 800 × 600 or higher.

•	Learn about Systems Management Server See how Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 provides comprehensive application deployment, asset management, and security update management to help reduce the cost of software change and configuration management.

Keep the Business Running

Secure Network Connectivity The Windows Server System platform delivers a server infrastructure with the security and reliability you need to help keep your service-level commitments.

•	Help Secure Network Connectivity Learn about Microsoft services that help enable secure remote access, wireless networking, and network security with Windows Server 2003 and Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2000.

•	Keep your Systems Up-to-date with Software Update Services Find out how Software Update Services (SUS) helps administrators quickly and reliably deploy critical Windows updates to their environment.

•	Streamline Security Management and Operations Use Microsoft's comprehensive security tools, guidance, and services to improve your ability to deploy and manage software updates across the company, reduce risk exposure through secure configuration, and implement a defense-in-depth strategy.

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Monitor your Servers with Microsoft Operations Manager

Businesses rely heavily on IT services, so failure to meet service level agreements (SLAs) through system and service downtime translates directly into lost revenue, customer dissatisfaction, and a competitive disadvantage. Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 provides comprehensive event management, proactive monitoring and alerting, reporting and trend analysis, and system and application specific knowledge and tasks to improve the availability of Windows Server System environments.

Related Sites

•	Microsoft Management

•	Upgrading & Migrating

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