Thursday, March 24, 2011

Active Directory

Assume you are tasked with preparing a proposal advocating the migration to Windows Server 2008 from the current network solution. Please research the features, functions, and capabilities of Server 2008 to answer the question below.

What is Active Directory and how is it used? What are the benefits of utilizing Active Directory?

Advantages/Disadvantages

Assume you are tasked with preparing a proposal advocating the migration to Windows Server 2008 from the current network solution. Please research the features, functions, and capabilities of Server 2008 to answer the question below.

What are the advantages / disadvantages of using Windows Server versus other server operating systems – such as UNIX or Linux?

Server

Assume you are tasked with preparing a proposal advocating the migration to Windows Server 2008 from the current network solution. Please research the features, functions, and capabilities of Server 2008 to answer the question below.

What is Windows Server? What are the different editions of Windows Server? Describe the deployment options available with each edition of Windows server 2008?
What are the limitations of the various editions (processors, memory, etc)?