Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion

Summary

Windows Server 2003 provides the system administrator with a much richer set of disk management tools than any previous version of Windows. The addition of dynamic volumes has materially reduced the number of reboots required to manage disk resources. The administrator can now reconfigure arrays on the fly, adding disks and extending volumes to manage disk space without having to reboot for every change. When combined with hardware RAID controllers and hot-swap drives, these tools finally give the administrator the ability to manage a 24-hour-7-day operation.

The features added to NTFS, including quotas, shadow copies, and file system encryption give the administrator additional flexibility and options to control file system abuse, to ...