The new NT Server also includes tools to migrate from Novell Directory Services to Active Directory. Another key enhancement is in client support. It cannot, however, similarly repair a damaged NT system. According to Microsoft, a Fix Pack 4, due out later this year, will retrofit the new NTFS 5.0 to NT 4.0. Kudos to Microsoft for now using the Unix-standard Kerberos authentication protocol to handle logins, instead of NT 4.0's proprietary NTLM, which is still supported for older clients.
Server even comes with a certificate server.
As with its predecessor, NT 5.0 Server builds new services on top of Workstation's kernel and base functions. Both versions, for example, support FAT32 partition, I2O and Fibre Channel. With Server, you can finally set disk-space quotas for individual users. The new Distributed File System combines multiple file servers and shares into a single group, with basic load-balancing and failover. The benefit of this is that users need not care about the physical location of a share.