Windows Server 2008 has five Active directory related roles. below are the list
1. Active Directory Domain Services (Identity): AD DS it provides the functionality of an identity and access (IDA) solution for enterprise networks. It also provides the mechanisms to support, manage, and configure resources in distribution network environments.
2. Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (Applications): AD LDS formerly known as Active directory application mode (ADAM), provides support for directory-enabled applications.
3. Active Directory Certificate Services (Trust): AD CS to set up a certificate authority for issuing digital certificates as a part of a public key infrastructure (PKI) that binds the identity of a person, device or service to corresponding private key. Certificates can be used to authenticate users and computers, provide web-based authentication, support smart card authentication, and support application, including secure wireless n/w, vpn, Ipsec, EFS, and more.
4. Active Directory Rights management Services (Integrity): AD RMS is an information-protection technology that enables you to implement persistent usage policy templates (for documents) that define allowed and unauthorized use whether online, offline, inside, or outside the firewall.
5. Active Directory Federation Services (Partnership): AD FS enable an organization to extend IDA across multiple platforms, including both window and non-windows environments, and to project identity and access rights across security boundaries to trusted partners.
Print Services
It depends on the computers hardware.
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The use of the Server 2k3 after migration of Migration of Active Directory 2003 to 2008 is to transfer fsmo roles and to demote windows.
Windows Server 2008 is the most recent release of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. Released to manufacturing on 4 February 2008 and officially released on 27 February 2008, it is the successor to Windows Server 2003, released nearly five years earlier. Like Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 is built on the Windows NT 6.0 kernel. A second release, named Windows Server 2008 R2, is currently under development.
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For Windows Server 2008, it should be IIS 7.
Windows Server 2008 is the most recent release of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. Released to manufacturing on 4 February 2008 and officially released on 27 February 2008, it is the successor to Windows Server 2003, released nearly five years earlier. Like Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 is built on the Windows NT 6.0 kernel. A second release, named Windows Server 2008 R2, is currently under development.
Windows Server 2008 is not a free product, and thus cannot be downloaded.
Windows Server 2008 is not marketed towards laptops, and no manufacturer advertises their compatibility with it. However, any laptop that supports Windows Vista should work with Windows Server 2008.
Windows 2000 Server was released in February 2000, Windows Server 2003 was released in April 2003, Windows 2003 Server R2 released in December 2005, Windows Server 2008 was released in February 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 was released in July 2009, and Windows Server 2012 was released in September 2012.
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium based System doess not provide server core installation