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Server hardening just means tightening down the server for its specific purpose (i.e., file server, web server, etc.). There are some excellent books out there.
Microsoft has some good articles on their site and Dr.Tom Shinder has an excellent read on hardening a web server within his book ISA Server and Beyond. It just depends on what server you are building.
Another resource is the SANS reading room at:
sans.org/rr
hope this helps.
Chuck
Explanding on my answer from before and focusing on a web server for example, you would harden it by ensuring that you have all the Microsoft updates on it (patches for the OS, plus patches for the web server). Then you would turn off all of the services you don't need running on the web server - like the Messenger service, etc. Then installing virus protection on the machine, etc. You keep locking the machine (or hardening) the machine until you feel its locked down tight.
For obvious reasons I did not mention ALL the possibilities because there are tons to mention (their are books written to simply harden a web server, etc.). So I limited my discussion to a breif overview.
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