Getting Started

The Getting Started topics provide information about new features as well as information designed to help you install or upgrade a network with one to five servers and 100 or fewer clients. If you are an administrator of a larger collection of servers, also see the Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit at the Microsoft Windows Server System Web site. For information about obtaining the Windows Deployment and Resource Kits, see Using the Windows Deployment and Resource Kits.

For additional information, see:

• Step-by-step guides for deployment
  
  
• New Features
  
  
• Installing and Upgrading the Operating System
  
  
• Installing and Upgrading on Cluster Nodes
  
  
• Configuring Roles for Your Server
  
  
• Windows Product Activation