GPO, KMS and Certificate Servers.

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Some of these services can run on the one server.

Group Policy Objects (GPOs).

This allows an administrator to control aspects of the workstations and servers in a Domain.

Active Directory (A/D) Domain Windows 7 workstations require at least one Windows 2008 Server Domain Controller (DC) for GPOs.

There are a number of new GPOs that can be configured for Windows 7.

Just remember to make ALL GPO changes on a Windows 2008 server. While you can have both Windows 2003 and 2008 DCs, changes made on a Windows 2003 DC can corrupt the GPOs.

For more information follow these links. Wikipedia Microsoft

Microsoft Key Management Server (KMS).

Microsoft Volume License customers register Windows 7 workstations with a server on the customer’s network. A special license is used on the KMS server. This license is register with Microsoft.

A KMS license server v1.2 is required. This comes with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. There is a download for Windows Server 2003.

For more information follow this link. Microsoft

DirectAccess and Certificate Authority.

If you are installing DirectAccess, a Certificate Authority to give the Windows 7 workstations client certificates is required. This gives the workstations Client certificates.

Also with DirectAccess, IPv6 is required. You can translate IPv4 to IPv6 and back again. We had some difficulty implementing this with the Beta software.

For more information follow this link. Microsoft