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One of the way to secure a Cisco router / switch is to encrypt password in it.

In order to encrypt passwords that are saved in the Cisco devices configuration file, you may use the “service password-encryption” global configuration command.

This command should be used as a simple cipher to prevent unauthorized users from viewing the passwords [...]

There are two modes of operation in Windows 2003 environment. Basically a computer can work as workgroup computer or domain computer. Most home and small business environments will be Workgroup, and most enterprise businesses will run in domain mode.
Basically when you install Windows 2003 server, by default it is a workgroup computer.

Workgroup environment is [...]