Windows Server 2003 - Changes

Changes

The following features are new to Windows Server 2003:

• Internet Information Services (IIS) v6.0
• Significant improvements to Message Queuing
• Manage Your Server – a role management administrative tool that allows an administrator to choose what functionality the server should provide
• Improvements to Active Directory, such as the ability to deactivate classes from the schema, or to run multiple instances of the directory server (ADAM)
• Improvements to Group Policy handling and administration
• Provides a backup system to restore lost files
• Improved disk management, including the ability to back up from shadows of files, allowing the backup of open files.
• Improved scripting and command line tools, which are part of Microsoft's initiative to bring a complete command shell to the next version of Windows
• Support for a hardware-based "watchdog timer", which can restart the server if the operating system does not respond within a certain amount of time.

The ability to create rescue disk was removed in favor of Automated System Recovery (ASR).