Component product of Windows Server System is effective on its own, as individual components and as part of an integrated system. To provide a framework for Windows Server System product improvement, Starting with the infrastructure server product releases for 2005, with a vision of delivering a common set of services across all Windows Server System products.

All Windows Server System products will provide infrastructure built on the Volume Shadow Copy Service to support fast backup and recovery of data. Each Windows Server System product team will develop a Volume Shadow Copy Service writer. Volume Shadow Copy Service is a framework for facilitating communication among applications, storage subsystems, and storage management applications (including backup applications) to define, persist, and exploit point-in-time copies of storage data.

This infrastructure will provide backup/restore to product solution providers to reduce their cost of product development

and enable IT administrators to provide their organizations with fast backup and recovery of data at reduced costs.