- Understanding User and Group Accounts
Learn about assigning permissions and privileges to user and group accounts. These permissions and privileges determine which actions users can perform, and which computer systems and resources they can access.
- Default User Accounts and Groups
When you install Windows 2000, the operating system installs default users and groups. These accounts provide the basic setup necessary to grow your network. Learn about the default accounts that are provided: predefined, built-in, and implicit.
- Using Default Group Accounts
Learn to assign users to the right groups, to make managing Windows 2000 workgroups or domains a lot easier. This article divides groups into those used by administrators, operators, users, computers, and groups that are implicitly created.
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
This white paper explains public key infrastructure (PKI) and how it is incorporated in Windows 2000.
- Windows 2000 Web and Application Services Technical Overview
This paper provides an overview of the services within the operating system of specific use to application developers.
- Windows Clustering Technologies - An Overview
This article examines the cluster technologies available on the Microsoft Windows server operating system, and includes how cluster technologies can be architected to create comprehensive, mission-critical solutions that meet enterprise requirements.
- Windows 2000: Internet Authentication Service (IAS) and RADIUS
This paper describes the Internet Authentication Service (IAS) in Windows 2000, the Microsoft implementation of a Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service (RADIUS) server.
- Introduction to IntelliMirror
The paper describes how each IntelliMirror feature works and provides examples of their use.
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Group Policy: Introduction
This paper presents an overview of Windows 2000 Group Policy, a key technology behind the Change and Configuration Management features of IntelliMirror management technologies and Remote OS Installation.
- IP Security for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
This white paper explains how Windows IP Security integrated into Windows 2000 Server provides network managers with a critically important line of security.
- Microsoft Management Console - Overview
This paper introduces the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), and provides an overview of the MMC user interface, and the MMC architecture. It also explains the concept of management snap-ins, and how they relate to the console.
- Microsoft Windows 2000: Kerberos, the Distributed Security Protocol
For Windows 2000, Microsoft has chosen a new core security protocol. NTLM is still supported as is the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, but Kerberos is now the fundamental security protocol.
- Single Sign-On (SSO) in Windows 2000 Networks
This white paper explains how Microsoft provides an integrated, comprehensive and easy-to-use single sign-on (SSO) capability via the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system.
- Quality of Service (QoS) Overview
This white paper reviews emerging QoS mechanisms and how they are integrated to optimize the utilization of network resources. It then specifically discusses Microsoft's QoS mechanisms.
- Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX Introduction
This white paper describes the objectives and features of Windows Services for UNIX. SFU consists of different components that bridge the gap between Windows-based and UNIX-based operating systems running in the same network.
- Enterprise Class Storage
This white paper summarizes storage industry trends and the business challenges related to storage management. It then describes storage features in the Windows 2000 Server OS and explains how they address digital storage requirements of the enterprise.
- Task Scheduler
This paper is intended for software developers and system integrators. It describes the Task Scheduler, a new service and user interface that runs on the Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- Remote Operating System Installation Overview
This paper provides an overview of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Change and Configuration Management Remote OS Installation feature and the Remote Installation Service (RIS) technologies it uses.
- Windows 2000 Simplifies Top 15 Administrative Tasks
This paper presents an overview of the benefits of the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system that Microsoft, working with key customers and partners, has identified as important to Windows system administration.
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
This paper introduces Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), and describes how the Microsoft implementation of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) helps simplify systems management while providing a better-managed environment.