Internet Services and .NET Application Services

With Windows Server 2003, anything you can do on a corporate network you can do in a Web environment as well. Windows Server 2003 incorporates a set of services that provide server-side support for the most popular application-level Internet protocols, enabling a server to function as a Web server, FTP server, SMTP host, or NNTP host, or all of these at once.

Basic Internet services are fully integrated across the whole spectrum of Windows Server 2003 versions. These services are referred to as Internet Information Services 6. You can host multiple Web sites on a single server with only one IP address. Each Web site can have its own user database, which means that multiple independent user domains ...

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