Windows server 2000 server iso

Windows 2000 Professional

This is the most basic edition which was released for the users. inside this iso file, you can find all the three versions of Windows Server 2000 with the addition of the Windows 2000 operating system. Read more.

Windows 2000 Small Business Server

Windows 200000 small business edition or standard server was built for the small or mid-sized businesses. It was used to performs things like sharing files, sharing printers, sharing information and tolls between inside the server and infrastructure server.

Windows 2000 Advanced Server

It was built for network bigger than “Windows 2000 Small Business server”. This is used for line of business applications and e-commerce, advanced server all the functions. In this version, you can also do things like control network load balancing, messaging, customer services and databases.

Windows Datacenter Server

Windows Datacenter servers were made for big corporations and companies. With this, you can handle thousands of users simultaneously. It has more like a technical and data-intensive with options to perform things like data warehousing, large data analysis, online transaction, site hosting and internet service providing.

Remember that to upgrade from Windows NT to Windows 2000 server. You will need Windows NT 4.0 Domain Migration tools and a complete reinstallation of your OS.

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Release notes

The final RTM build of Windows 2000 is 5.0.2195 which arrived with new NTFS 3.0 support, an on-the-fly Encrypting File System, new Accessibility tools and the Active Desktop, additional language and locale settings. Dynamic disks were introduced as well which allowed Windows to join disks together in a software RAID array. Plug-and-play support was improved compared to Windows NT 4.0.

One noticeable fact right off the bat is that features from Windows 98 have made it into the Windows NT line, like the Active Desktop update, Internet Explorer 5, Windows Driver Model, Internet Connection Sharing, Windows Media Player and WebDAV support. Windows File Protection also arrived with 2000 which protected critical system files by not allowing anything other than Microsoft’s Windows Installer or Windows Update package installer modify system files. The System File Checker utility allowed users to preform a manual scan of protected system files (and optionally repair them). Windows 2000 also supported ACPI S4 hibernation, which unlike Windows 98, does not require specific vendor drivers.

For system management Windows 2000 introduced the Microsoft Management Console and a vast majority of system administration tools from Windows NT 4.0 were moved to MMC ‘snap-ins’. This includes the the Event Viewer, Task Scheduler, COM+ management, group policy configuration, disk defragmenter, device manager, service control, and if installed, .NET Framework. Two versions of the registry editor exist in Windows 2000. The classic MDI-style editor capable of manipulating Windows NT permissions exists as regedt32.exe and the Windows 98 registry editor exists as regedit.exe. This is a straight port and is incapable of editing a remote registry or changing permissions. This was later updated in Windows XP. A new recovery console was introduced which can be launched from the CD-ROM (or optionally installed to disk and made available through NTLDR by running WinNT32.exe /cmdcons in Windows). This is a text-mode Windows NT (and not MS-DOS as it may look) environment. Most of what is built into cmd.exe, along with a set of NT native mode utilities may be launched from the recovery console.

Features on the fun consumer side (or further brought over from 98) is support for DirectX 7.0, which is able to be upgraded up to DirectX 9.0c (Shader 3.0) with support remaining in DirectX up to the June 2010 SDK. Windows 2000 included no new stock games, including only FreeCell, Minesweeper, Pinball and Solitaire. Windows 2000 included the Accessibility tools (which NT 4.0 did not) and also included some new tools. Ported over was StickyKeys, FilterKeys, ToggleKeys, SoundSentry, MouseKeys, high contrast themes, and Magnifier. Windows 2000 introduced the Narrator, which reads aloud GUI objects with the Speech API, and an on screen keyboard which works with mouse or joystick. Windows 2000 introduced a multilingual user interface and can support Arabic, Armenian, Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Indic, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkic, Vietnamese and Western European languages. Numerous locale settings are supported.

Installation instructions

All images are bootable and require the use of a virtualization platform (VMWare, VirtualBox, Virtual PC) or a real system with the ability to boot from a CD-ROM.

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Please note! Using this with an active, unfiltered connection to the Internet may place you at high risk for malware or other unwanted viruses. Do not use this in any form of production environment.

Build number notes: 5.00.2195 or 5.00.2195.1=no SP, 5.00.2195.1620=SP1, 5.00.2195.2951=SP2, 5.00.2195.5438=SP3, 5.00.2195.6717=SP4. For more naming info see: Windows 2000 volume naming

Important: Due to enhancements in the IDE driver, you usually will want to install from SP4 media.

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Windows 2000 was released to the public on February 17, 2000, preceded by Windows NT 4.0. It was part of the Windows NT series, even Windows 2000 was named Windows NT 5.0 in its beta stage. There are four different versions of the operating system, which are Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server. All versions are attached in the download menu. Windows 2000 introduced many new features such as NTFS V 3.0 with Encrypting File System (EFS), Active Directory (AD) service, Internet Explorer 5/6, Multilingual User Interface, Microsoft Management Console (MMC), and many more improvements and bug fixes. Server versions of Windows 2000 have more features than the professional version.

In the download menu, the ‘SP’ stands for the service pack.

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System requirements

Minimum:

• Pentium 133 MHz CPU or higher.
• 32 MB (Professional), 128 MB (Server) of RAM.
• 1 GB (Professional), 2 GB (Server) of hard disk space.

Installation Instructions for the VirtualBox (application)

To install Windows 2000 Professional on Virtualbox, follow the steps below:

1. Download an Windows 2000 Professional file from the download section.
2. Extract 7z file and get ISO file.
3. Install and open the Virtualbox app on your computer.
4. Create a new virtual machine with the recommended configuration for Windows 2000, or use manual configuration according to system requirements.
5. Start VM and when it asks to select Host Drive, then select the Windows 2000 ISO file extracted in step 2.
6. Press start, and follow the on-screen instructions.
7. In the partition screen, press C to create partition.
8. Format the partition using the NTFS file system.
9. Follow the on-screen instructions and finish your installation.

The product key is not available in the download file, please get it from the web.