About Windows Server 2003 SP1
Windows Server 2003 SP1 provides convenient, comprehensive access to the latest updates, enhancements, and new features for Windows Server 2003. Each of these components allows customers to better leverage the enhanced security, reliability, and performance of Windows Server 2003.
Updates
Update management is one of the great challenges of computer security. Despite the inherent management difficulties they present, updates will continue to play a vital role in better securing enterprise IT. While enhancements and new functionality delivered by Windows Server 2003 SP1 make great strides toward more proactive security, reacting to known threats is still a core mission of SP1.
Frequent updating is essential to keeping up with exploits as they are discovered. By providing these updates together in SP1, Microsoft provides customers, both new and old, with the latest protection for Windows Server 2003.
The updates disseminated by SP1 cover some of the most basic functionality—and thus remove some of the most widely exploited attack points—of Windows Server 2003. These updates include:
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