HP leads the way in the deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 by offering innovative hardware, exceptional services, and management tools to simplify your installation and to manage your network. This document provides information on the HP and Microsoft Frontline Partnership, the features Microsoft added to Windows Server 2003, and the HP ProLiant server products, services, management tools, and resources that help you gain the most from your Windows Server 2003 deployment. Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 provides customers with significant security enhancements as well as reliability and performance improvements. Building on a comprehensive collection of security updates, Service Pack 1 addresses additional core security issues by providing customers with a reduced attack surface, better protected system services with stronger default settings, and reduced privileges. With Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, the development team took the time to treat the root cause of many security issues, not just the symptoms. This service pack is significant and should help address certain classes of exploits, and we encourage all of our Windows Server 2003 customers to deploy Service Pack1. Microsoft has brought forward not just the normal collection of updates, but several tools that promote more secure network configuration and a streamlined way to administer the latest security releases.