Understanding and Using Windows Server 2012 UNIX Integration Components

Microsoft has a long history of not “playing well” with other technologies. With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft provides native support for Windows Server 2012 UNIX Integration, a series of technologies that was previously included in a product line called Windows Services for UNIX (SFU). With Windows Server 2012, several of the components of the old SFU product are included as integrated services in the Windows Server 2012 OS.

For many years, UNIX and Windows systems were viewed as separate, incompatible environments that were physically, technically, and ideologically different. Over the years, however, organizations found that supporting two completely separate topologies ...

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