Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Administrator's Companion, 2nd Edition

Introduction

Change alone is unchanging.

—Heraclitus (c. 535 B.C.–c. 475 B.C.)

Even the ancient Greeks knew that change is inevitable, constant, and inescapable. You can brood about the inevitability of change, or you can take the optimist’s view and assert that at least some change is beneficial. We’re basically optimists, so we’ve changed a lot in this edition. Not only have we gone over the first edition with a fine-tooth comb looking for ways to make it clearer and more concise, but we’ve also added a lot of completely new material covering the new and exciting features that were added to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with the release of Service Pack 1, and then the release of the R2 editions of Windows Server 2003. Plus we cover the new and ...