All Active Directory functions are available through LDAP, ADSI and MAPI for extending and integrating with other applications, directories, and devices. Server delivers support for up to 4-way SMP servers. Scale out quickly and easily by distributing incoming IP traffic across a farm of load-balanced servers. In Windows 2000, Terminal Services are up to 20 percent more scalable and have dramatically improved performance for both high and low-bandwidth connections. 5.0 allows you to host more Web sites per server with high performance.
Server delivers high performance processing on high performance networks.
Increased throughput increases performance without having too increase network bandwidth. Active Directory Integration Active Directory integration with the underlying security infrastructure provides a focal point of security management of users, computers and devices making Windows 2000 easier to manage. Kerberos Authentication Full support for Kerberos version 5 protocol provides fast, single sign-on to Windows resources, as well as other environments that support this protocol. The Certificate Server is a critical part of a public key infrastructure that allows customers to issue their own x.509 certificates to their users for PKI functionality such as certificate-based authentication, IPSec, secure email, etc. Integration with Active Directory simplifies user enrollment.