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Windows Server 2003 R2 Reviewer's Guide Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
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Enhancements
In addition to finding and updating security holes before hackers can exploit them, SP1 includes improvements to functionality that originally shipped with Windows Server 2003. Such enhancements make a great product better and raise the security, reliability, and productivity of Windows Server 2003. Below are brief descriptions of some of these key enhancements:
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Stronger defaults and privilege reduction on services—Services such as RPC and DCOM are integral to Windows Server 2003, but they are also an alluring target for hackers. By requiring greater authentication for RPC and DCOM calls, SP1 establishes a minimum threshold of security for all applications that use these services, even if they possess little or no security themselves.
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Support for “no execute” hardware—SP1 allows Windows Server 2003 to utilize functionality built in to computing hardware to help ensure that malicious code cannot launch attacks from areas of computer memory that should have no code running in it. For both 32-bit and 64-bit systems, this enhancement closes the door on one of the broadest and most exploited avenues of information attack.
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Network Access Quarantine Control components included—Windows Server 2003 SP1 now includes the Rqs.exe and Rqc.exe components to make deployment of Network Access Quarantine Control easier.
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IIS 6.0 metabase auditing—The metabase is the XML-based, hierarchical store of configuration information for Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. The ability to audit this store allows network administrators to see which user accessed the metabase in case it becomes corrupted.
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