An ever-growing number of applications that are developed for the Windows server platforms. Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000 helps intermediate and advanced Windows programmers by covering a variety of topics needed to develop reliable applications for Windows 2000. Readers should be familiar with C + + Windows programming and spend little time introducing basic concepts. Part of the service and administration is easy, and the reader is familiar with Windows NT will easily understand the skills needed to build application-friendly system. Security is a complex topic, and the authors do a good job to introduce various aspects of Windows security, emphasizing the functions that programmers will use most often. Note that much of the information in this book is not specific to Windows 2000 - can easily be applied to Windows NT 4 - but new features such as Active Directory is not discussed in detail. You can use this book to modify existing applications to better integrate with Windows, or to develop new server applications from scratch. If you want a solid tutorial for developing Windows applications server, this will make a nice supplement to your technical library Ostenson. - Pete Topics covered: I / O ports and the settlement pool thread, Windows service development and administration, management, performance counter Registry event logging, Windows security, user and group management, SSPI, and SSL.