For IT professionals, "people-ready" can be as simple as being able to respond to business needs by making small changes to your configuration, to configuring complete new servers at the click of a button. In addition to many features that make your planning, deployment and management easier, Windows Server focuses on making your IT dynamic for any size organization.

The Windows Server Family provides a solid foundation for all of your server workload and application requirements while being easy to deploy and manage. Using three core pillars – Security, Web Platform and Virtualization, Windows Server provides a hardened secure platform to protect your server infrastructure, your data, and your business, allowing you to consolidate servers and use hardware more efficiently via virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V and Terminal Services, and provide improved Web administration, diagnostics, development, and application tools with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0).

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Microsoft Windows Server

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the most advanced Windows Server operating system yet, designed to power the next generation of networks, applications, and Web services. With Windows Server 2008 you can develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within your organization.

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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is a cumulative service pack that includes the latest updates and provides enhancements to security and stability. In addition, it adds new features and updates to existing Windows Server 2003 features and utilities.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 simplifies branch server management, improves identity and access management, reduces storage management costs, provides a rich Web platform, and offers cost-effective server virtualization.

For file sharing, storage consolidation, replication, and backup and recovery, Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 offers a superior price-to-performance ratio, enhanced manageability, and increased productivity.

High Performance Computing (HPC) users in multiple industries are discovering how Microsoft’s Windows HPC platform can help them make significant productivity gains. Learn how Microsoft is taking HPC further with version 2, Windows HPC Server 2008, which provides easy cluster management, enhanced collaboration, and common client and cluster development tools.

Windows Server Solutions

Windows Essential Server Solutions are a family of server solutions designed to help boost productivity and transform small and midsize businesses by providing an integrated IT infrastructure to help save time, money, and significantly increase productivity.

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is an all-in-one integrated multi-server solution designed and priced specifically for midsize businesses.

Windows Small Business Server 2008 is an all-in-one server solution designed to help you keep your data more secure and your company more productive.

A complete and affordable network solution, Windows Small Business Server 2003 offers an operating system, collaboration and storage tools, and more, in one package for small groups of users.

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Microsoft Windows Server Update Services can help you fully manage the distribution of updates released through Microsoft Update to clients in your environments, after your testing, and on your schedule.

Imagine a world where infrastructure costs decrease as system capabilities increase. Imagine a world where you can update servers, desktops and apps on a moment’s notice. Welcome to the world of virtualization – where all of this is reality, and virtually anything is possible.

Internet Information Services 7.0 is a powerful Web application and services platform that delivers rich Web-based experiences and offers improved administration and diagnostic tools to help achieve lower infrastructure costs on a variety of popular development platforms.

In conjunction with Windows Server 2003, Virtual Server 2005 R2 provides a virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment. Hypervisor technology virtualization is now built into the Windows Server 2008 operating system.