ABSTRACT
Enterprise Windows While Windows wrapped up control of the desktop market some years ago, it still has a long way to go before it achieves complete domination in the corporate server market. This is why the last few years have seen a rise in the number of server offerings from Microsoft as it moves toward higher end computing. Windows 2000 was a particularly important release as it represented a major improvement over Windows NT in terms of enterprise stability and scalability. Windows 2000 launched the Active Directory (AD), the Microsoft enterprise directory offering. The Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition offers 64-bit processing with up to 16 terabytes (TB) of addressable memory. At the high end of the Microsoft operating system spectrum, the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server with SQL Server 2000 supports up to 32 processors. Thus, Windows can now compete well in the mid-price server market, if not at the highest end. Along the way the company has also been upgrading its file systems to add the additional features, reliability, and security needed by corporate users. In this chapter, we look at the various types of file systems now supported by Windows.
