Zusammenstellung technischer Informationen und Whitepapers der Fa. Microsoft

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Windows XP Comparison

• Windows XP Professional Comparison Guide - Windows XP Professional im Vergleich
  Windows 95/98/Me/ Windows NT 4.0/ Windows 2000 Professional/ Windows XP Professional 
   

• Windows XP Home Edition Comparison Guide - Windows XP Home Edition im Vergleich
  Windows 95/98/Me/  Windows XP Home 
   

• Windows XP Comparison Guide - Vergleich der Windows XP Versionen
  Windows XP Professional - Windows XP Home
   
   

Windows XP Marketing Presentations

• Windows XP Technical Overview (PPT)
   

Windows XP Professional Tutorial Videos

• Mobility
  Windows XP works with you while you are on the go. This demo walks you through the remote desktop, wireless connectivity, and power management features.

• Communications
  Real time communications and collaboration is made easy with Windows Messenger for Windows XP. This demo shows you how to keep in touch via text, voice, and video conversations.

• Help and Support
  Answers to your questions are all in one place with the new Help and Support Center in Windows XP. This demo walks you through getting help whenever you need it.
   

• Digital Music
  Windows XP lets you manage and organize your digital music. This demo explores getting music, managing it, personalizing it, and taking it with you.
   

• Digital Photos
  Windows XP helps you organize and share your digital photos. This demo walks you through transferring images to your computer, and managing and sharing your pictures.
   

• Digital Video
  Creating home movies using Windows XP is easier than ever. This demo walks you through watching, editing, sharing, and transferring videos using Windows Movie Maker.
   

• Connected Home
  Windows XP makes networking simple, including sharing resources like printers and scanners. This demo shows you how to set up a network, share resources, use fast user switching, and keep your network secure.
    

Windows XP Technical Article Index

Technical articles published in the Technical Resources section of the Windows XP site. (22.10.2001)
 

Windows XP Overviews

• Windows XP Technical Overview - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung (Techology)
  Windows XP is the next version of Microsoft Windows beyond Windows 2000 and Windows Millennium. Windows XP brings the convergence of Windows operating systems by integrating the strengths of Windows 2000—standards-based security, manageability and reliability with the best features of Windows 98 and Windows Me—Plug and Play, easy-to-use user interface, and innovative support services to create the best Windows yet.
  This article provides a broad technical overview of what’s new in Windows XP. It shows how new technologies and features make it easier to get work done, share information, manage your desktop, stay productive while traveling with a mobile computer, obtain help and support, and perform many other computing tasks.
  Windows XP is built on an enhanced Windows 2000 code base, with different versions aimed at home users and business users: Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional. Unless otherwise noted, this article addresses technologies and features common to both versions of the operating system.
   

• Windows XP and .NET: An Overview - Word-Document  - Deutsche Übersetzung
  The release of Windows XP comes at a time of transition and growing maturity of the Internet.
  The Web has grown to include many millions of sites on almost every conceivable topic. Although more information is available than ever before, the opportunities to fully manage and customize it have remained limited. Until now.
  The Microsoft .NET initiative aims to change this through a framework built around XML-based Web services that interoperate via existing open Internet protocols such as TCP/IP and HTTP.
  And at the heart of the .NET platform for knowledge workers, business users, and consumers lies the new client operating system, Windows XP.
  The successor to Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Millennium is designed to serve as the central information hub for services and act as the smartest of all devices amid a growing constellation of Pocket PCs, mobile phones, Tablet PCs, digital cameras, and other devices.
   

• Windows XP 64-bit Edition Technical Overview - Word-Document
  The ever-expanding data needs of business, academic, engineering, and scientific organizations push the limits and the capabilities of existing information technology (IT) platforms. Today, gigabytes or even terabytes of data need to be accessed in real time by millions of users worldwide, and new technology is needed to meet this demand.
  The 64-bit Microsoft Windows platform will provide high availability, advanced scalability, and large memory support based on the Intel® Itanium™ processor family with its extensive multiprocessing features, powerful floating-point arithmetic extensions (up to 6.4 Gigaflops at 800 MHz when tuned for 3-D graphics performance), and multimedia-specific instructions.
  The initial release of the Intel Itanium processor, previously code-named Merced, will primarily be deployed as a development and evaluation platform and by early adopter customers who are pushing the memory limitations of 32-bit systems. Customers using only 32-bit applications and not working with data sets larger than 2 gigabytes (GB) will find that 32-bit systems will continue to be the best environment for those applications.
   

Planning, Deploying, and Migrating to Windows XP

• Windows Messenger in Windows XP: Working with Firewalls and Network Address Translation Devices-  Word-Document
  This article discusses several scenarios describing what will be needed to use all Windows Messenger features and provides possible solutions to identified issues.
  Windows Messenger provides an exciting, new real–time communication experience that will revolutionize the way people communicate. Using Windows Messenger you can communicate with your contacts by Instant Messaging (IM), voice, video, application and data sharing, and remote assistance. In many networks, all of these features can be used without any changes to the network infrastructure. Certain networks, such as business or residential, may also deploy firewalls and/or Network Address Translation (NAT) components.
  The purpose of a firewall is to protect computers on the network by blocking direct access to them. Computers behind a firewall use a NAT component to share limited public Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Sharing IP addresses is a limitation imposed on the Internet by the current IP version 4 (IPv4) addressing scheme. Because the IPv4 addressing scheme is not able to provide enough IP addresses, the information technology industry was forced to standardize NAT and deploy NAT products that share IP addresses and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports. As a result, some Windows Messenger features—mainly instant voice and video communications—experience reduced functionality when used in certain Internet scenarios.
  When universal plug and play– (UPnP) enabled firewalls or NAT components are used between communicating parties, all of the new Windows Messenger features work as intended. However, there are network set ups that require special configuring for all of the new Windows Messenger features to work.
   

• Deploying Windows XP Part I: Planning - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung
  This article introduces the essential elements in planning a successful deployment of the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system, the successor to Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me). Intended for organizations moving from the Windows NT® 4.0 or Windows 9.x operating systems, this guidance will also be useful to anyone seeking to deploy Windows XP Professional in a medium or large organization.
    

• Deploying Windows XP Part II: Implementing - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung
  This article introduces ways to deploy automated and customized installations of Windows XP Professional to one or more desktop computers. It is intended as an introduction and roadmap.
   
  Reasons for automating and customizing installations:
  In large organizations that support hundreds or even thousands of computers, it is expensive and inefficient to manually install the operating system on each computer and answer every displayed Setup question. In this environment, it is often necessary to automate the installation process. Different software and hardware configurations and varying user needs also make it necessary to customize installations.
    

• User State Migration in Windows XP - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung
  Migrating files and settings is made easier in Windows XP with two tools aimed at different types of users and situations:
  

  • Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. Designed for home users and small office users. The wizard is also useful in a corporate network environment for employees who get a new computer and need to migrate their own files and settings without the support of an IT department or Helpdesk.

  • User State Migration Tool (USMT). Designed for IT administrators in performing large deployments of Windows XP Professional in a corporate environment. USMT provides the same functionality as the wizard, but on a large scale targeted at migrating multiple users. USMT gives administrators command line precision in customizing specific settings such as unique modifications to the registry.

  This article is presented in two parts. Part 1 provides a short overview of the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard and helps users get started. Part II provides a deeper technical overview of USMT and shows administrators how to approach the modification of INF files.
    

• Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating Files and Settings - Word-Document
  Getting a new computer often requires repeating much of the same setup configuration you originally did with your old computer. And even after all the reconfiguration, you still don't have your data from the old computer. Locating this data and figuring our how to move it can be a significant challenge. The Windows® XP operating system streamlines this process with the new Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. By providing clear instructions at each step, the wizard walks you through the process of automatically gathering your files and settings from your old computer and transferring them to your new computer.
  The wizard is designed for users in a home or small office environment. The wizard is also useful in a corporate network environment for employees who get a new computer and need to migrate their own files and settings without the support of an IT department or Helpdesk.
  When migrating files and settings for multiple computers in a corporate environment, administrators should use the User State Migration Tool, a command line tool. For more information, see the article, "User State Migration in Windows XP."
    

Key Improvements in Windows XP

• Reliability Improvements in Windows XP Professional - Word-Document (Techology)
  Computer system reliability and availability are critical considerations for businesses today. When Microsoft released the Windows 2000 Professional operating system, it brought a new level of reliability to desktop computing. Windows XP Professional is built on the proven code base of Windows 2000, which features a 32-bit computing architecture, and a fully protected memory model. Windows XP offers several enhancements that make it the most reliable version of Windows yet.
    

• Application Compatibility in Windows XP - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung (Techology)
  In general, applications are highly optimized for a specific operating system or operating system version. Application compatibility problems can arise when users try to run their favorite programs on a newer version of the Microsoft® Windows® operating system, for example, than the one for which the application was originally written. This may be especially true when migrating many older applications to Windows XP, because it is built upon the foundation of Windows NT® and Windows 2000, and not the consumer-oriented line of operating systems (Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Millennium Edition).
  To solve compatibility problems and so enable a better user experience with legacy applications, Microsoft has integrated application compatibility technologies into Windows XP that come into play whenever an application is installed on the operating system, whether in the course of an system upgrade or during regular operations. This article first describes these technologies in detail and then outlines how they can be used and extended, in particular with the supplemental tools available in the Application Compatibility Toolkit.
    

• Windows XP: What's New in Device and Hardware Support - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung (Techology)
  Device and hardware support has been improved in many ways for the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, which brings together the respective advantages of the Windows 2000 and Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me) product lines for greater system stability and device compatibility. Windows XP includes Plug and Play support for hundreds of devices not covered by Windows 2000, and enhanced support for Universal Serial Bus (USB), IEEE 1394, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), and other buses. Plug and Play itself has been improved for Windows XP, resulting in streamlined usability and performance, particularly in the device installation process. And while the driver models are largely unchanged from Windows 2000, Windows XP draws from the Windows Me driver models to add Windows Image Acquisition (WIA), a rich interface that facilitates image acquisition from still image devices such as scanners and digital cameras.
  This article highlights some of the major advances in Windows support for common device classes—such as scanners, cameras, audio devices, high-density storage devices and media (DVDs and CDs), and displays—and explains the power management improvements in Windows XP beneficial to both desktop and mobile computer users.
   

• Usability Improvements in Windows XP for Knowledge Workers - Word-Document (Techology) 
  This document outlines new features and usability improvements of the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system. These improvements help knowledge workers access information and more quickly accomplish tasks such as locating, using, storing, and printing files and documents.
  This document covers improvements and features that will help you:
   

  • Access files and programs quickly with the new Start Menu.

  • Organize and locate items easily with the new taskbar.

  • Explore your computer with enhancements to Windows Explorer.

  • Explore and change your computer settings with a new Control Panel.

  • Search Web pages and local content with the Search Companion.
     

• What's New in Security for Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung (Techology)
  Windows XP provides the most dependable version of Windows ever—with the best security and privacy features Windows has ever provided. Overall, security has been improved in Windows XP to help you have a safe, secure, and private computing experience. Windows XP is available in two editions—Windows XP Home Edition for home use, and Windows XP Professional for businesses of all sizes.
  Security features in Windows XP Home Edition make it even safer for you to shop and browse on the Internet. Windows XP Home Edition comes with built-in Internet Connection Firewall software that provides you with a resilient defense to security threats when you’re connected to the Internet—particularly if you use always-on connections such as cable modems and DSL.
  Windows XP Professional includes all of the security capabilities of Windows XP Home Edition, plus other security management features. These important new security features will reduce your IT costs and enhance the security of your business systems.
    

• Windows XP Performance - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung (Techology)
  Microsoft Windows XP offers you many new features. And its excellent overall performance—which includes dramatically faster boot and resume times, along with highly responsive applications—creates the conditions for a very satisfying user experience.
  For most computers that meet Microsoft’s minimum recommended hardware requirements, Windows XP is the best-performing Windows operating system ever created. This article addresses some of the key performance improvements in Windows XP, and highlights some of the issues you should keep in mind when evaluating a system configuration.
  Because Windows XP is still in development, Microsoft is not able to provide you with hard performance numbers at this time—though benchmarks from an objective, third-party reviewer will be provided in the not-too-distant future. Until then, the information presented here will help you understand more about Windows XP and about its resource requirements.
   

• Mobile Computing with Windows XP - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung (Techology)
  The popularity of laptops shows that people are eager to use mobile technology. Windows XP Professional is designed to make mobile computing easier. New features for mobile computing will help you accomplish as much on the road or at home as you do in the office, so you can be productive no matter where you are. Add these capabilities to the reliability, performance, and communication features in Windows XP Professional and you have a system that can do things that you always thought a system should be able to do.
  This article outlines the specific improvements Windows XP Professional brings to mobile computing for business users. Unless noted, the capabilities described in this document do not require special hardware and will work in almost any networking environment.
    

• Wireless LAN Technologies and Windows XP - Word-Document - Deutsche Übersetzung
  The availability of wireless networking and wireless LANs can extend the freedom of a network user, solve various problems associated with hard-wired networks and even reduce network deployment costs in some cases. But, along with this freedom, wireless LANs bring a new set of challenges.
  There are several wireless LAN solutions available today, with varying levels of standardization and interoperability. Wide industry support for interoperability and operating system support address some of the deployment questions for wireless LANs. Still, wireless LANs present us with new challenges around security, roaming and configuration. The rest of this article discusses these challenges and presents some possible solutions, focusing on how Windows XP will play an important role in providing those solutions with support for zero configuration, 802.1x security and other innovations.
    

• Windows XP Networking Features and Enhancements - Word-Document (Techology)
  Several sources exist for detailed information on the features and enhancements covered in this article. This includes articles found on the Windows XP web site and the product and product documentation itself. This article is intended to give an overview of these features and enhancements without going too deep into the technology and implementation. Each feature or enhancement will be discussed in its own section or with complimentary features.
   

• Universal Plug and Play in Windows XP - Word-Document
  With the addition of Device Plug and Play (PnP) capabilities to the operating system it became a great deal easier to setup, configure, and add peripherals to a PC. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) extends this simplicity to include the entire network, enabling discovery and control of networked devices and services, such as network-attached printers, Internet gateways, and consumer electronics equipment.
  UPnP is more than just a simple extension of the Plug and Play peripheral model. It is designed to support zero-configuration, “invisible” networking, and automatic discovery for a breadth of device categories from a wide range of vendors.
  This article provides an overview of UPnP, describes how Windows XP supports UPnP, offers some scenarios to illustrate how it might be used in a network, and describes how UPnP works.
  

Additional Technical Articles

• Internet Connection Firewall Feature Overview - Word-Document
   
  Responding to Increased Internet Threats
  When networks were first created they were intended to connect “trusted” computers together. Over time clusters of networks became connected, introducing the ability for an unknown entity from one network to connect to a computer on another network, which led to the need for protection.
  Previously not having protection in the form of a firewall on a PC connected to the Internet was not an issue because the primary connection used a modem and dialed the connection only when needed. The connectivity duration was short and the assigned IP address was dynamic, making it difficult for hackers and other outside threats to connect to a PC.
  But today, the security landscape is changing. More home users are adopting “always–on” broadband connections. Because these connections have the same IP address, it’s easier for hackers to locate a target PC.
  Hackers used to need intimate knowledge of networking topologies and protocols. But now numerous tools are freely available on the Internet, making it easy for novice hackers (so–called “script kiddies”) to find vulnerabilities in computers and exploit them. Studies show that cable modem networks are frequently scanned by hackers. Attacks are only likely to increase as more people connect to the Internet and more services are offered.

  Goal for Internet Connection Firewall
  The Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) is designed to give the home user and small business protection against these threats. The goal is to provide a baseline intrusion prevention mechanism in the Windows® XP operating system. This means protecting against scans for information and denying all unsolicited inbound traffic. By doing this, the basic tools that are available to “script kiddies” will be ineffective and they will likely move on to an easier target.
  Firewalls have typically been difficult for the average person to configure. With Windows XP, Microsoft’s goal is to provide a simple and unobtrusive security experience. Using a simple checkbox user interface and providing wizards for enabling ICF on connections, Windows XP eliminates the configuration hassle for consumers while still providing flexibility for advanced users to customize settings.

  Availability of Internet Connection Firewall
  ICF ships in Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional. It will also be available in the Windows .NET Server Family.
  This article contains a brief technical overview of Internet Connection Firewall. It includes the following sections:
  

  • Installing ICF

  • ICF Functional Overview

  • Options for Configuring ICF

  • APIs for ICF

  • Frequently Asked Questions
     

• Managing Windows XP in a Windows 2000 Server Environment - Word-Document - GruoupPolSettings(XL)
   
  Deploying clients running the Windows® XP operating system into a Windows 2000 Server environment provides administrators with new options, policy settings, and capabilities to manage desktops throughout an organization.
  Intended for organizations that have already deployed or are planning to deploy the Active Directory™ service, this article helps administrators manage policy settings for computers running Windows XP, the successor to Windows 2000 Professional. Many new features of Windows XP—such as Remote Assistance, Windows Media™ Player, and Error Reporting—come with their own Group Policy settings that administrators can use to customize and standardize configurations for users and computers across the network.
  Group Policy settings define the various components of the user's desktop environment that administrators need to manage such as the programs available to users, the programs that appear on a user's desktop, and options for the Start menu.
  Managing policies is part of the IntelliMirror® management technologies set, first introduced in the Windows 2000 operating system. IntelliMirror enables users’ data, software, and settings to “follow” them throughout a distributed computing environment, whether they are online or offline. At the core of IntelliMirror are three features: User Data Management, User Settings Management and Software Installation and Maintenance. These features may be used separately or together.

  IntelliMirror policy—based management brings two important benefits:

  • Lower total cost of ownership for managing the desktop environment. Because organizations can deploy and manage customized desktop configurations, they spend less money supporting users on an individual basis. Users get the flexibility they need to do their jobs without having to spend time configuring their system on their own.

  • Enhanced productivity from newly empowered users. Because users' applications, data, and settings are available to them regardless of where they log on, they can get more done. And applications can be remotely installed and upgraded.

  Clients running Windows XP can be dropped directly into Active Directory and process all the same policies that currently apply to desktops running Windows 2000. New policy settings that apply only to Windows XP are ignored by any clients running Windows 2000. Verifying operating system requirements and functions of each setting is made easier with explain text contained directly in the new user interface for the Group Policy snap—in—administrators don’t have to search documentation to determine what a policy does.

  This article explains:

  • What’s new for policy settings in Windows XP

  • Logon optimization in Windows XP

  • Managing client computers using Windows XP

  • Verifying policy with Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)
     

• Data Protection and Recovery in Windows XP - Word-Document
  Microsoft® Windows® XP provides significant advancements in data recovery and protection, and private key recovery. Microsoft Windows 2000 introduced the capability for data recovery with the implementation of Encrypting File System (EFS), and this capability has been enhanced in Windows XP.
  EFS—in both Windows 2000 and Windows XP—supports the use of data recovery agents (DRA) to decrypt files that have been encrypted by other users.
  This article is intended to assist system architects and administrators in developing best practices for creating data recovery and data protection strategies using Windows XP.
  In addition to explaining strategies for data recovery and data protection in Windows XP, this article includes many step-by-step examples that illustrate how to set up the data recovery and data protection features you’ll want to use when deploying a Windows XP data recovery and protection solution.
   

• Inside Windows Messenger—How it Communicates - Word-Document
  Using Microsoft® Windows® Messenger you can instantly communicate and collaborate with your contacts. You build your list of contacts (or “buddies”) by providing a friendly name such as “Paul” and an address, such as paul@reskit.com. The power of Presence in Windows Messenger makes instant communication and collaboration with contacts more effective. Presence gives users the ability to find each other, Rendezvous, and stay constantly updated with each other’s online status. (The powerful capabilities of Presence and Rendezvous are usually provided by a server or service.)

  This article discusses the following server and service topics related to Windows Messenger:

  • Server solutions for Windows Messenger

  • Presence

  • Instant Messaging

  • Voice and Video

  • Application Sharing and Whiteboard

  • File Transfer

  • Remote Assistance
     

• User Data and Settings Management for Windows XP in a Windows 2000 Environment - Word-Document
  User data includes the documents, images, spreadsheets, presentations and e–mail messages on a user’s computer. User settings include application configurations, preferences, window sizes, toolbar settings and so forth on a user’s computer.
  With Microsoft® IntelliMirror® management technologies, administrators can manage user data and settings in ways that reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the computing systems.
  By using IntelliMirror on both the server and client, administrators can protect and manage user data and settings. Non–recoverable data from local workstations can be copied to servers, where it can be easily backed up and centrally managed. Personalized data, applications, and settings can follow each user to different computers throughout the network. Administrators can easily replace faulty computers and restore all user data and settings on a new computer.
  When fully deployed, IntelliMirror uses the Active Directory™ service and Group Policy for policy–based management of user desktops. A Windows® XP Professional desktop can be automatically configured to meet specific requirements of a user’s business roles, group memberships, and location. Group Policy and the Active Directory are not necessary for every IntelliMirror feature. Some of the features can be set on the local level or through local polices. An organization can tailor use of IntelliMirror to its needs.
  This article discusses two of the key components that provide user data and settings management in IntelliMirror—User Profiles and Folder Redirection. It also provides an architectural overview of these features, and presents sample scenarios showing how IntelliMirror is used throughout a computer’s lifecycle.
   

• Frequently Asked Questions About the IPv6 Protocol for Windows XP - Word-Document
  This article contains frequently asked questions and answers about the Microsoft IPv6 Protocol for Windows XP
    

• PKI Enhancements in Windows XP Professional and Windows .NET Server - Word-Document
   
  The combination of Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Windows .NET Server provide a range of PKI enhancements that let you securely extend your network to employees, partners, and customers and enhance the management and performance features of the Windows 2000 security infrastructure. Windows XP Professional and Windows .NET Server offer many PKI-specific business benefits to organizations that require secure business processes and IT infrastructures.

  Versatile
  Windows .NET Server lets you securely extend your network to employees, partners, and customers by integrating Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, standards-based authentication, and encryption technologies.

  Flexible authentication options include:

  • Smart cards

  • X.509 certificates

  • Kerberos

  • Token-based authentication technologies

  • Other authentication mechanisms

  Strong encryption services include:

  • Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)

  • Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)

  • Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol with IPSec (L2TP/IPSec)

  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

  • Transport Layer Security (TLS)

  • Encrypting File System (EFS)

  Easy-to-Manage
  Microsoft Windows XP Professional introduces user certificate auto-enrollment, which allows administrators to easily deploy certificates throughout the enterprise while requiring no user interaction.

  Windows XP Professional also provides full support for:

  • Full PKI cross-certification

  • Name constraints, policy constraints, and policy mapping

  • Delta certificate revocation lists (CRLs)

  • Bridge certificate authority (CA) configurations

  • Delegated policy administration

  • Unified user management through Microsoft Active Directory™.

  Dependable
  Windows XP Professional and Windows .NET Server expand and enhance the management and performance features of the Windows 2000 security infrastructure. These improvements include:

  • Increased Kerberos performance

  • Automatic user enrollment for PKI certificates

  • Streamlined access control list (ACL) evaluation

  • Simplified authorization framework and ACL editor

  • New credential manager for secure multiple identities

  • Smart card support for administrators

  • Extensible authentication protocol (EAP) for standard 802.11 wireless networking

  • Integrated PKI key archival and recovery tools

  • Encrypting offline files (client-side cache)

  Business Benefits
  Windows XP Professional and Windows .NET Server offer many PKI-specific business benefits to organizations that require secure business processes and IT infrastructures.

  Windows .NET Server
  Windows .NET Server includes a full-featured PKI that delivers the business benefits of public key cryptography. These include:

  • A secure corporate intranet and extranet

  • Confidential and secure e-mail

  • Managed trust solutions

  • File protection in the event of stolen or lost portable computers and other storage devices

  • Access control and single identity authorization across a range of Web and application servers

  • Digital signatures that enable tamper-proof, legally-binding transactions

  • Trusted, on-demand, access to network resources for remote users

  • Trusted, permanent network connectivity for remote offices

  • Scalable technology to support millions of users and high-volume transactions

  Windows XP Professional
  PKI is an integral part of the Windows XP Professional operating system. PKI:

  • Requires no per-certificate fees

  • Is integrated into normal network management tasks

  • Enables single sign-on capabilities to networks and applications

  • Offers managed trust capabilities

  • Supports all applications through CryptoAPI

  This is a definite advantage considering that third-party PKIs must be purchased separately, and require per-certificate license fees and increased management tasks.
   

• Multilingual Features in Windows XP Professional - Word-Document
  In the global economy, increasing numbers of companies need to have their computing systems support multiple languages. The Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system eases the complexity of computing in a multilingual environment by providing different versions and options designed to make it easier and less costly to get work done—for all your users regardless of their location or language.
  Windows XP Professional will be available in 24 official localized versions in addition to English (for a complete list, see Appendix A). In any version of Windows XP Professional, you can display, input, edit, and print documents in hundreds of languages. Users or administrators can set regional preferences, fonts, keyboard layouts, sorting orders, date formats, and so on.
  The biggest innovation for multilingual computing is the Windows XP Multilingual User Interface Pack, which is an add–on to the English version of Windows XP Professional. It lets users or administrators switch the User Interface (menus, dialogs and help files) from one language to another. This feature greatly eases desktop administration in multilingual computing environments, and lowers cost of desktop change and configuration management considerably. The Multilingual User Interface Pack will be available in 33 languages (for a complete list, see Appendix B).
  This article introduces multilingual computing in Windows XP Professional and is designed to help IT managers choose the right multilingual options for their organization. It includes a section on how you can use multilingual features in Office XP for a more tightly integrated multilingual environment.
   

• Universal Plug and Play in Windows XP - Word-Document
  With the addition of Device Plug and Play (PnP) capabilities to the operating system it became a great deal easier to setup, configure, and add peripherals to a PC. Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) extends this simplicity to include the entire network, enabling discovery and control of networked devices and services, such as network-attached printers, Internet gateways, and consumer electronics equipment.
  UPnP is more than just a simple extension of the Plug and Play peripheral model. It is designed to support zero-configuration, “invisible” networking, and automatic discovery for a breadth of device categories from a wide range of vendors.
  This article provides an overview of UPnP, describes how Windows XP supports UPnP, offers some scenarios to illustrate how it might be used in a network, and describes how UPnP works.
   

• Ensuring Great Experiences with NAT Traversal and Universal Plug and Play in Windows XP - Word-Document
  As more homes and small businesses add computers they are finding networking is an extremely powerful tool for sharing computer resources. An Internet connection is one of the more precious resources on the network and is likely to be shared. To do this and to enjoy an inexpensive, easy to manage, home or small office network, Internet gateways are being deployed. Internet gateways often provide NAT (Network Address Translation) as a means of connecting multiple hosts to the Internet sharing a single public IP address. Unfortunately, this solution breaks many types of networked applications—as will be described in this paper.
    

• UPnP NAT Traversal FAQ - Word-Document
   
• Home and Small Office Network Topologies - Word-Document
   
• Windows Messenger: New Waves of Innovation - Word-Document
   

• Windows XP Performace Study (Word-Document)
  Microsoft Corporation commissioned eTesting Labs to compare the performance of the Windows XP Home Edition and Professional operating systems versus four older Windows operating systems
   

• Windows XP Remote Assitance (Schrittweise Anleitung, Word-Dokument)
  Dieses Handbuch hilft Ihnen beim Einstieg in die Remoteunterstützung, bei der ein Experte eine Verbindung zu einem Computer eines anderen Benutzers herstellen und Probleme direkt beheben kann. Außerdem werden die wichtigsten Szenarios erläutert, in denen Remoteunterstützungssitzungen initialisiert werden können.
   

• Drahtlose LAN-Technologien und Windows XP (Whitepaper, Word-Dokument)
  Dieses Dokument bietet eine Einführung in die drahtlosen LAN-Technologien (Local Area Network), die derzeit bereitgestellt werden. Darin enthalten sind eine Übersicht über drahtlose Netzwerktopologien sowie allgemeine Terminologie, die zum Verständnis der Themen erforderlich sind. Es folgt ein Abschnitt, in dem die verschiedenen problematischen Aspekte im Zusammenhang mit der Bereitstellung drahtloser LAN-Technologien besprochen werden. Abschließend wird eine Reihe von Lösungen für diese Probleme sowie deren Implementierung bzw. Umsetzung unter Windows XP erläutert.
   

• Multibooting mit Windows 2000 und Windows XP (Word-Dokument)
   

• Bereitstellung von Windows XP (Whitepaper, Word-Dokument) 
  Dieses Whitepaper beschreibt die automatisierten Bereitstellungsoptionen sowie weitere Tools, die bei der Bereitstellung des Betriebssystems Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional verwendet werden. Es stellt einen Wegweiser zu den Bereitstellungsressourcen dar. Sie erhalten eine Übersicht über die Vor- und Nachteile der einzelnen Bereitstellungsoptionen und erfahren, wo die Bereitstellungstools zu finden sind.
   

• Funktionen und Erweiterungen des Windows XP-Netzwerkes (Whitepaper, Word-Dokument)
  Mit der Veröffentlichung von Windows XP wird eine Reihe von Funktionen vorgestellt, die das Arbeiten im Netzwerk interessanter, umfassender und unkomplizierter gestalten als je zuvor. Dieses Whitepaper beschreibt einige der neuen Funktionen und Erweiterungen dieses richtungsweisenden Produkts
   

• Windows XP New Shell Features
   

Windows XP Tools

• Application Compatibility Toolkit 2.0
  The Microsoft® Windows® XP Application Compatibility Toolkit includes new compatibility tools, such as Application Verifier and the Compatibility Administration tool. These tools enable you to create and distribute custom compatibility fixes for applications on Windows XP and profile existing applications for known compatibility problems.
  This version of the toolkit contains tools and documentation to help Windows XP customers diagnose and resolve application compatibility issues. These include:
  

  • Designed for Windows XP Application Specification

  • Common Application Compatibility Issues white paper

  • Documents on best practices for testing

  • Tools to help resolve compatibility issues

  • Information for contacting the Application Compatibility Team
     

Wolfram Oestreicher 24.10.2001