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BackOffice Products on Windows Management
BackOffice Products:
Application Center;
BizTalk Server;
Commerce Server;
Content Management;
Exchange Server;
Host Integration Server;
Identity Integration Server;
ISA Server;
Live Communications Server;
Operations Manager;
SharePoint Portal Server;
Speech Server;
SQL Server;
Systems Management Server;
Application Center
Microsoft Application Center 2000 is Microsoft's deployment and management tool for high-availability Web applications built on Microsoft Windows® Server. Application Center 2000 makes managing groups of servers as simple as managing a single computer.
Clustering technology, which allows multiple stand-alone computing systems to function as a single virtual machine, has become a powerful ally in the fight for e-commerce application scalability and availability. In a nutshell, clustering boosts performance through better load balancing, which means your customers won't wait as long to access your business applications.
With Windows 2000, Microsoft offers very impressive clustering and load-balancing capabilities. Companies looking to get in on this business-boosting action should check out Microsoft's Application Center 2000, a Web-scaling management tool that allows easy set-up and configuration of server arrays (clusters).
Application Center 2000 is Microsoft's deployment and management tool for high-availability Web applications built on the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system. Application Center 2000 makes managing groups of servers as simple as managing a single computer. This overview addresses high-level information on Application Center 2000, touching on application management, software scaling, and mission-critical availability.
Application Center 2000 leverages the stability and dependability of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. It allows Web site administrators to easily combine servers into Network Load Balanced (NLB) clusters and monitor their performance across corporate networks or the Internet. In addition, Application Center combines Web site files and components into sets of 'application images.' Application Center simplifies Web site administration by synchronizing application images throughout a cluster with the click of a button. It uses the scaling out theory that many small servers in a cluster is better than one large server as it lowers the change for point of failure and can balance the load over multiple machines.
Application Center is a tool for creating, deploying and managing Web and component based applications. Typically, these are line-of-business applications that require a high level of availability and need to provide acceptable response time. The servers hosting these applications are expected to handle traffic that is characterized by high volumes, exponential growth curves, and load fluctuations.
This software-based solution is designed to provide the capital cost advantages of the scale-out model, while at the same time providing reduced operations costs—one of the main advantages espoused by proponents of the scale-up model.
In addition to these cost benefits, Application Center provides:
- Manageability—through a centralized management console that is minimal and familiar. This console is used to organize and manage replication, load balancing, and the monitoring of Web and COM+ applications.
- Scalability—that is both linear and flexible. Additional servers can be added to a cluster as needed to accommodate seasonal peaks and removed (and reallocated within the organization) as the load decreases.
- Reliability—by eliminating the single point of failure associated with scaling up or hardware-based load balancing. It also transparently removes a server from operation in the event of a hardware or software failure.
- Good performance, of course, is desirable in any product. In addition to offering optimal load balancing algorithms for different types of applications, Application Center provides tools for monitoring system performance and allows the system administrator to adjust load on a server-by-server basis. This approach recognizes the realities of heterogeneous server farms and provides far greater flexibility than the one-size-fits-all approach.
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BizTalk Server
Microsoft BizTalk® Server enables you to rapidly build and deploy integrated business processes within your organization and with partners. BizTalk Server 2004 offers a suite of tools and services that make building business processes and integrating applications faster. Secure, reliable trading partner relationships can be quickly implemented independent of operating system, programming model, or programming language.
BizTalk Server 2000 is a tool used for the integration of partners' information systems. The B2B integration services offered by BizTalk Server 2000 are traditional:
- Routing of data stream between partners
- Interpretation and transformation of data formats
- Tracking and protection of exchanges
BizTalk Server 2000 uses simple rules to implement a multitude of mechanisms to achieve the above. The particularity of the product is that it is 100% Microsoft. It is based on the following software:
- Microsoft Windows 2000, in its various versions
- Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) with Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
- Microsoft SQL Server (7.0 or 2000). (Note that for SQL Server 7.0 the entire system must be updated)
- Microsoft Visio 2000.
Each software building block provides the mechanisms required for data exchange:
- Support for HTTP, HTTPs, SMTP, EDIFACT protocols
- Support for message services
- Support for file exchange
- Management of distributed transactions
- XML transformation with a parser
- Storage and archiving of messages
- Graphical definition of exchanges
- Administration of business services
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Commerce Server
Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 offers users a less complicated and less time-consuming way to build tailored, effective e-commerce solutions. By providing the application framework, together with sophisticated feedback mechanisms and analytical capabilities, you can quickly develop sites that optimize the customer experience, encouraging repeat business and forging tighter partner relationships.
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Content Management
Microsoft Content Management Server dramatically reduces the time required to build and deploy content-driven Web sites that deliver high scalability, reliability, and performance. Content Management Server empowers content providers to manage their own content and provides site users with a targeted and personalized experience tailored to their profile and browsing device.
Exchange Server
Microsoft Exchange delivers a reliable, scalable, and manageable infrastructure with 24×7 messaging and collaboration and low cost of ownership.
It supports a wide range of collaborative activities, including group scheduling capabilities, discussion groups, and team folders, and it provides
access to information across geographic, organizational, and technology barriers with features such as Instant Messaging, real-time data,
and video conferencing.
It is designed to help your business communicate more effectively.
Along with the rich client functionality provided by Microsoft Office Outlook®,
Exchange offers mobile, remote, and desktop e-mail access with state-of-the-art security and privacy; lower cost of ownership through the services provided by Microsoft Windows Server™ 2000/2003;
high reliability and outstanding performance; e-mail-based collaboration; and easy upgrading, deployment, and administration.
Host Integration Server
Microsoft Host Integration Server 2000 extends Windows to other systems by providing application, data, and network integration. Host Integration Server lets you quickly adapt to new business opportunities while preserving existing infrastructure investments.
Host Integration Server 2000 enables you to embrace Internet, intranet, and client/server technologies while preserving investments in existing systems. This document lets you to learn what makes Host Integration Server the easiest, most affordable application integration platform for an enterprise company.
Host Integration Server 2000, the follow-up release to Microsoft's highly successful SNA Server, extends Microsoft Windows® to other systems by providing application, data, and network integration. Host Integration Server lets you quickly adapt to new business opportunities while preserving existing infrastructure investments. With its enterprise-class scalability, performance, and reliability, Host Integration Server can support the most demanding business needs.
Host Integration Server 2000 is Microsoft Corp.’s new SNA gateway for the end-user to Internet, intranet or client-server environments, permitting the integration of existing mainframe application and database information into new Windows applications.
The platform is the Windows 2000 upgrade of the SNA Server that performed the same function for the BackOffice Suite on Windows NT systems – plus features unique to Windows 2000 that are geared toward high-end use.
Applications are integrated using COM+, XML and SOAP technologies. The new product makes it possible to make multiple data copies and move them to varying locations while automatically synchronizing data. It permits a two-way relationship between Oracle and SQL Server databases and also is designed to integrate with SQL Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2000 and Commerce Server 2000.
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Identity Integration Server
MIIS is Microsoft's metadirectory services product that can provision accounts across the enterprise and into disparate systems such as Active Directory,
T 4.0, Exchange 5.5, Novell eDirectory, and many others.
The ability to provision and manage accounts across the enterprise allows you to keep accounts and even passwords synchronized throughout your company.
This is extremely beneficial to organizations that have a multitude of systems that have their own accounts database repository and even more so for
companies that are very large and have to constantly add, remove, and modify existing accounts within many systems. In addition, since most organizations
rank password resets as the number one call to the help desk, reducing this management burden for the help desk can dramatically reduce costs and
overhead within your organization.
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ISA Server
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 provides secure, fast, and manageable Internet connectivity. ISA Server integrates an extensible, multilayer enterprise firewall and a scalable high-performance Web cache. It builds on Windows 2000 security and directory for policy-based security, acceleration, and management.
A function that is usually combined with a firewall is a proxy server. The proxy server is used to access web pages for other computers. When a computer requests a web page, it is retrieved by the proxy server and then forwarded to the requesting computer. The remote computer hosting the web page is never in direct contact with the requesting computer, only with the proxy server.
Proxy servers can make your Internet access work more efficiently. If you access a page on a Web site, it is cached on the proxy server. This means that the next time you go back to that page, it normally doesn't have to load again from the Web site. Instead it loads instantaneously from the proxy server. Only drawback of a proxy server cache is that you need to flush the proxy cache from time to time to ensure up-to-date content.
In case you want remote users to have access to items on your network, you can create a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). It's an area that is outside the firewall. If you have multiple computers, you can choose to place one of the computers between the Internet connection and the firewall. Most of the software firewalls available will allow you to designate a directory on the gateway computer as a DMZ.
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Live Communications Server
Live Communications Server 2003 provides your business with enterprise-ready instant messaging (IM), presence awareness, and an extensible platform that connects people, information, and business processes—enabling better decisions faster.
Live Communications Server, provides many capabilities that were notably absent from the company's earlier Exchange IM solution,
including encryption, logging, and standards-based protocols.
While LCS delivers a compelling glimpse of the future of corporate IM, we expect it will truly come into its own only after companies roll out
Windows Server and the Office suite.
Operations Manager
Microsoft Operations Manager delivers enterprise-class solutions for operations management of Windows 2000,
Active Directory® directory service, and other component services in Windows 2000, as well as other Windows Server System™ applications such as
Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server™. For mixed IT environments, extensions are available from other software vendors like NetIQ.
It is a comprehensive network monitoring solution that radically improves the availability, performance, and security of Windows 2000 networks and applications. MOM provides central monitoring and automatic problem resolution for networks of tens to thousands of computers, continuously monitoring user actions, application software, servers, and desktop computers. MOM can monitor, manage, and secure a wide range of resources including computers, applications, Web server farms, electronic commerce (e-commerce) sites, and corporate servers. MOM automates formerly labor-intensive tasks, such as security management and application monitoring in your organization. It provides proactive real-time system monitoring for Windows 2000 servers and computers throughout the extended enterprise.
SharePoint Portal Server
Microsoft SharePoint™ Portal Server uses the power of Microsoft's robust search technologies to create an intranet site that lets you easily access key
content from a broader set of enterprise information.
In addition, you can rapidly deploy an out-of-the-box portal site and easily use Web-Parts technology to customize a Web-based view of your organization.
SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server built on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), which bundles with Windows 2000/2003 Server. WSS itself provides portal functionality, and can be extended using the .NET Framework and ASP.NET. SPS is in fact a WSS application.
SharePoint Portal Server provides more traditional portal functionality and look-and-feel with less work than a portal built with MCMS.
Out of the box, SharePoint Portal Server looks more like Yahoo and other portal sites, and provides similar functionality.
By implementing the Microsoft equivalent of portlets -- what SharePoint Portal Server calls "Web Parts" -- business users can create their own
dashboard pages, quickly and easily pulling together the varied resources they need and formatting them as they desire.
Information may also be grouped and targeted, including across multiple hierarchies.
You can also drop in special functional areas, including surveys, document libraries, meetings, and alerts, creating a typical portal dashboard.
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Speech Server
Microsoft Speech Server performs speech recognition and speech synthesis for applications that can be accessed by telephone, mobile phone, Pocket PC, Tablet PC, and other devices. Speech Server combines Web technologies, speech-processing services, and telephony capabilities into a single system that runs on Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003. It contains all the server components needed to deploy telephony (voice only) and multimodal (voice/visual) applications.
With Speech Server, you can develop several kinds of speech applications: touch tone interfaces, voice-driven menus, and multimodal interfaces
(where voice supplements a standard visual Web interface).
Microsoft's multimodal application style is new and lets callers interact with Web pages via voice as never before.
Speech Server piggybacks on ASP.NET, adding speech to standard Web applications via its Speech Application Language Tags (SALT).
It offers voice input recognition as well as text-to-speech conversion, with technology licensed from ScanSoft.
However, it does not currently support VoiceXML.
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SQL Server
SQL Server 2000 is a complete, Web-enabled database and data analysis package that opens the door to the rapid development of a new generation of enterprise-class business applications that can give your company a critical competitive advantage. SQL Server provides core support for XML and the ability to query across the Internet and beyond the firewall.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is a full-featured relational database management system (RDBMS) that offers a variety of administrative tools to ease the burdens of database development, maintenance and administration. In this article, we'll cover six of the more frequently used tools: Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, SQL Profiler, Service Manager, Data Transformation Services and Books Online.
Systems Management Server
Systems Management Server delivers cost-effective, scalable change and configuration management for Windows–based desktop and server systems. Built on industry-standard management protocols, Systems Management Server is compatible with complementary management tools from Microsoft and other companies.
Systems Management Server includes a whole herd of tools. Its software management component searches for version resource information in every executable it finds on target machines. It allows tracking of licence deployment, metering of software usage, and even reports if its client has been disabled by the user. It can distribute software, and also remove it from systems based on group policy rules. It even can build CD-based installation packages that automatically do their work when inserted in the target machine, for use when a network link is too slow to permit installation over the wire.
SMS Policies can also define when any piece of software may be used--for example, it can restrict the running of games to lunchtime and after hours.
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