Inside Windows® Server 2003

New Features in Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003 includes enhancements for several resource sharing methods. They are as follows:

• Fax Sharing. This feature was incorporated from Small Business Server. It builds on the Windows 2000 Fax service, which was a standalone fax service. Fax sharing in Windows Server 2003 permits network clients to send faxes to a fax server just as they would send print jobs to a print server. Inbound faxes can be converted into email attachments and routed to an office administrator for distribution.

• WebDAV. This feature, which stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, was present in Windows 2000 but has been enhanced with a specialized network redirector. It permits opening files using HTTP ...