Siennax also offers an environment in which Windows-based applications can be run. This environment has the following characteristics:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Advanced Server as basic operating system.
• Set up in accordance with the guidelines applied by Microsoft Systems Architecture Internet Data Center and Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting version 2 concerning such matters as network segmentation, Microsoft ISA Server utilisation, configuration of application servers, configuration of application servers and security.
• Support whenever you perform Release Management yourself using FTP to test and production environments for content such as html pages and photos.

An organisation on the Windows environment is provided with the following as standard:

• A server with the operating system implemented.
• One DNS entry.
• Incoming and outgoing Internet traffic, HTTP and HTTPS.
• Failsafe network storage.
• Use of SMTP relay servers for outgoing eMail, including virus scanning.
• Daily backup of content, such as uploads, in both the production and acceptance environments' application files.

The following options are also available:

• Load and performance tests.
• The use of directory servers for storage of user accounts.
• Authentication by means of proxy servers. This option does, however, rely on the storage of user accounts on Siennax directory servers.
• Facilities for provisioning and management of user accounts on directory servers.
• Database services.
• One FTP account per organisation, configured for uploading static files to the application file.
• Server Certificates for HTTPS access.

Siennax can provide a Windows server as a so-called managed server. This is a server that has an operating system installed and a number of basic facilities, which you manage yourself in terms of the installation and management of the applications running on the server. See also Managed Server.

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