Microsoft Servers (previously called Windows Server System) is a discontinued brand that encompasses

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software products for server computers. This includes the

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editions of the

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, as well as products targeted at the wider business market. Microsoft has since replaced this brand with

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Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 (previously called Office 365) is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and Cloud computing, cloud-based Software as a service, services owned by Microsoft. It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com, One ...

and Windows 365.

Servers

Operating system

The Windows Server family of operating systems consists of Windows operating systems developed and licensed for use on server computers. This family started with

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, for which Microsoft released a major upgrade every four years and a minor upgrade every two years following a major release. This family has branded members too, such as

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, Windows HPC Server and Windows MultiPoint Server.

Windows components

The following products are shipped as Windows component, as opposed to standalone products. *

Internet Information Services Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services, IIS, 2S) is an extensible web server created by Microsoft for use with the Windows NT family. IIS supports HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP. It has been an integral part o ...

(IIS):

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, FTP server and basic email server *

Hyper-V Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. A ...

: Bare-metal hypervisor * Windows Services for UNIX *

Windows Server Update Services Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), previously known as Software Update Services (SUS), is a computer program and network service developed by Microsoft Corporation that enables administrators to manage the distribution of updates and hot ...

Productivity

Some of the products included in the Windows Server System product branding are designed specifically for interaction with

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. These include: * BizTalk Server: Business process design and integration tools * Exchange Server:

E-mail Electronic mail (usually shortened to email; alternatively hyphenated e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving Digital media, digital messages using electronics, electronic devices over a computer network. It was conceived in the ...

and

collaboration Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. The ...

server * Host Integration Server: Data and management connector between Windows environments and mainframe and midrange platforms such as IBM i. Formerly known as Microsoft SNA Server * Project Server: Project management and resource allocation services; works as the server component to Microsoft Project * SharePoint Server: Produces sites intended for collaboration, file sharing, web databases, social networking and web publishing. * SQL Server: Relational Database Management and

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server

Security

* Exchange Online Protection * Identity Integration Server – Identity management product

Microsoft System Center

Microsoft System Center, a set of server products, aims specifically at helping corporate

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s manage a network of Windows Server and client desktop systems. * System Center Advisor:

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offering that helps change or assess the configuration of Microsoft Servers software over the Internet * System Center App Controller: Unified management for public and private clouds, including cloud-based virtual machines and services * System Center Capacity Planner: Provides purchasing and best-practice capacity planning guidance * Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager: Configuration management, asset management, patch deployment tools for Windows desktops (previously Systems Management Server); includes Software Center. * System Center Data Protection Manager: Continuous data protection and

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* System Center Endpoint Protection: Anti-malware and security tools for Microsoft products * System Center Essentials: Combined features of Operations Manager and Windows Software Update Services (WSUS), aimed at small and medium-sized

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es * System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis): An automation platform for orchestrating and integrating administrative tools to decrease the cost of datacenter operations while improving the reliability of IT processes. It enables organizations to automate best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and

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. Orchestrator operates through workflow processes that coordinate System Center and other management tools to automate incident response, change and compliance, and service-lifecycle management processes. * System Center Operations Manager: Services and application monitoring * System Center Service Manager: Ties in with SCOM, SCCM for asset tracking as well as incident, problem, change and configuration management (code name: Service Desk) * System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Virtual-machine management and datacenter virtualization

Discontinued server products

* Microsoft Application Center: Deployment of web applications across multiple servers. Some of its capabilities are now in System Center. * Commerce Server:

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portal ** Site Server (replaced by Commerce Server) *** Merchant Server (replaced by Microsoft Site Server) * Content Management Server:

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content management Content management (CM) are a set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. When stored and accessed via computers, this information may be more specifically referre ...

and publishing. Merged into Microsoft SharePoint Server. * Forefront: Comprehensive line of business security products ** Threat Management Gateway: Firewall,

routing Routing is the process of selecting a path for traffic in a Network theory, network or between or across multiple networks. Broadly, routing is performed in many types of networks, including circuit-switched networks, such as the public switched ...

, VPN and web caching server, formerly known as Microsoft ISA Server or Microsoft Proxy Server in its earlier iterations ***Microsoft Proxy Server (replaced by Forefront Threat Management Gateway) ** Protection for Exchange Server ** Protection for SharePoint Server ** Unified Access Gateway ** Identity Manager * Forms Server: Server-based electronic forms * Groove Server: Collaboration server; works in conjunction with Microsoft SharePoint Workspace * PerformancePoint Server: Business performance management server * Project Portfolio Server * Search Server * Microsoft SNA Server (replaced by Host Integration Server) * Skype for Business Server:

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and presence server, integration with telephone PBX systems. Integrates with Skype for Business. * Speech Server: Speech applications for automated telephone systems, including voice recognition * Virtual Server:

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of operating systems

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