Advanced Features of Windows Server 2000 family!!!

1. Routing and Remote Access Server (RRAS)

2. Dial-up and VPN IPsec, L2TP or L2TP/IPsec

3. RADIUS Authentication Service

4. Network Address Translation, unicast and multicast Routing plans

5. Remote access security emphasizes: 

6. Remote Access Policies for setup, check Caller Id (IP address for VPNs), callback and Remote access account lockout  

7. Autodial by area characteristic utilizing the Remote Access Auto Connection Manager Service

8. Extensible Authentication Protocol uphold in ISA (EAP-MD5 and EAp-TLS) later overhauled to PEAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2 and PEAP-EAP-TLS in Windows 2000 SP4 

9. DNS server, incorporating uphold for Dynamic DNS. Active Directory depends vigorously on DNS, 

10. IPsec Support and TCP/IP Filtering

11. Smart card Supoorts

12. Microsoft Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK) and Connection Point Services

13. Support for the Distributed file systems (DFS)

14. Hierarchical Storage Management support including remote storage, a service that runs with NTFS and Automatticaly exchanges records that are not utilized for some time to less expensive storage media

15. Fault tolerant volumes, in named Mirrored and Raid-5

16. Group Policy (part of Active Directory) 

17. Intellimirror, a collection of technologies for fine-grained management of Windows 2000 Professional customers that duplicates clients' information, provisions, documents, and settings in a centerlized location on the system. Intellimirror employs technologies, for example Group Policy, Windows Installer, Roaming profiles, Folder Redirection, Offline Files (otherwise called Client Side Caching or CSC), File Replication Service (FRS), and Remote Installation Services (RIS)

18. Com+, Microsoft Transaction Server and Distributed Transaction Coordinator 

19. MSMQ 2.0

20. Tapi 3.0 

21. Integrated Windows Authentication (Including Kerberos, Secure channel and SPNEGO (Negotiate) SSP bundles for Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI))

22. MS-CHAP v2 protocals

23. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Enterprise Certificate Authority Support, 

24. Terminal Services and support for the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

25. Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 and Windows Media Services 4.1

26. Network Quality of Service features. 

27. Another Windows Time administration which is an Implemantation of Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) as Details in IETF RFC 1769. The Windows Time service synchronizes the date and time of workstations in a Domain running on Windows 2000 Server or later. Windows 2000 Professional incorporates a SNTP Client.

28. The Server versions incorporate more characteristics and parts, incorporating the Microsoft Distributed File System (Dfs), Active Directory support and fault tolerant storage.