Microsoft Opens New Features in Windows Server 2003

Microsoft unveiled new features in the next-generation server OS "Windows Server 2003" for increased usability. “From mid-sized companies to large enterprise customers will be able to ensure a high degree of reliability in the computing environment” (Microsoft).

Bill & McDonald, vice president of Windows Servers, said: "The goal of the new feature is to reduce downtime in the customer computing environment by 50%."

A new feature called "Windows Driver Protection" prevents installation of drivers that are indicated to be faulty and prompts users to purchase upgraded versions. The “Driver Rollback” feature fixes Windows Server 2003 more quickly when errors occur due to a defective driver.

The other major features of this disclosure are as follows:

· By isolating the application process, even if an application stops running, it will not affect the functionality of other applications;

· is used to reduce the ability of applications and systems to stop running due to memory connections that write incomplete application code;

· for rapid failure of fault tolerant servers The memory mirroring function of the fail over function;

· can remotely design and reconfigure the cluster structure of Windows Server 2003 without restarting;

At the same time the company also Published projects and services related to Windows Server 2003.

 Datacenter High Availability Program" refers to a project targeting Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition. The project mainly provides the following contents: (1) information on the tested OEM structure; (2) certification based on Service "Gold Certified Datacenter Service Provider" support; (3) Microsoft-provided data center dedicated support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, "High Availability Resolution Queue".

The new service "Reliability Service" is mainly to monitor and analyze the event data collected by the customer data center server and provide analysis reports to customers.