The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P86:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 826 Chapter 24 Planning Implementing and Maintaining a Public Key Infrastructure you how to plan for enrollment and distribution of certificates including the use of certificate requests role-based administration and auto-enrollment deployment. Next we ll discuss how to implement the use of smart cards for authentication within the PKI. You ll learn what smart cards are and how smart card authentication works and we ll show you how to deploy smart card logon on your network. We ll discuss smart card readers and show you how to set up a smart card enrollment station. Finally we ll discuss the procedures for using smart cards to log on to Windows for remote access and VPNs and to log on to a terminal server. Planning a Windows Server 2003 Certificate-Based PKI Computer networks have evolved in recent years to enable an unprecedented sharing of information between individuals corporations and even national governments. The need to protect this information has also evolved and network security has consequently become an essential concern of most system administrators. Even in smaller organizations the basic goal of preventing unauthorized access while still enabling legitimate information to flow smoothly requires the use of more and more advanced technology. In the mid-1990s Microsoft began developing what was to become a comprehensive security system of authentication protocols and technology based on already developed cryptography standards known as Public Key Infrastructure PKI . With the release of Windows 2000 Server Microsoft used various existing standards to create the first Windows-proprietary PKI - one that could be implemented completely without using third-party companies. Windows Server 2003 expands and improves on that original design in several significant ways which we ll discuss later in this chapter. Understanding Public Key Infrastructure To understand how a PKI works you first need to understand what it is supposed to do. The goals of your .
