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Windows Server Update Services,enables administrators to manage the distribution of updates and hotfixes released for Microsoft products to computers in a corporate environment. WSUS downloads these updates from the Microsoft Update website and then distributes them to computers on a network. WSUS runs on Windows Server and is free to licensed Microsoft customers.
Unless you want to set up a homegroup, a feature of windows 7, on your network you won't really need a windows 7 computer
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No. Use samba to interface to the Windows network.
Active Directory Services is included with most Windows systems as it is a product of Microsoft. It is often used with Windows domain networks, authorizing computers within the network.
In the Microsoft Windows operating systems, My Network Places is the network browser feature in Windows Explorer from Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, and Windows Me onwards. It superseded the Network Neighborhood feature from Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98.Users are frequently confused by the differences between My Network Places, Workgroup Computers (the former Network Neighborhood) and Network Connections. Windows Vista fixes this ambiguity by introducing a redesigned network browser, which was named simply on the desktop as Network.It shows shortcuts to servers that the user has been to before, which by default is placed in a folder called NetHood, found in the user's user profile. This default location can be changed by modifying the pair of NetHood registry entries found under the registry keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders. [1][2]In a workgroup of fewer than 32 computers,[3] the list of network destinations in My Network Places is generated by one of the computers on the network, which has been designated "browse master" (sometimes called "master browser"). [4] The browse-master is elected by system strength. Sometimes when similar systems are connected to a network, there might be a conflict between browse-masters with unexpected consequences, such as the disappearance of the list altogether or some system becoming unreachable. A system can be forced to decline browse-master status by disabling the Computer Browser service and rebooting.In a workgroup of 32 computers or more, the shortcuts are created automatically when the user opens a shared network resource, such as a printer or shared folder.[3]
UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and Linux ARE network operating systems.
Windows net framework is a software framework developed by Microsoft and runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It provides data access and network communications.
Just use windows update service, there is a way to tell each computer that the update is not on the Microsoft website but on one of the local computers. In such way all computers will get the update.
on windows set your network type to private in network and sharing centre the open the folder Network from the start menu and other computers will appear that are on the network
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