Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise / R2 Beta 1 / SP2.
Now that we have looked back, now is a good time to look into the present. Windows Server 2008 has established itself since its appearance in many companies and proved to be a stable platform. Some important innovations of Windows Server 2008 were: A strictly modular design that makes it possible for only the roles and features are installed, which are actually needed. A Core installation option, which a Windows server can be installed with minimal attack surface. An installed in this server mode only has a text input option, there are no graphical tools available. A new version of the web server Internet Information Server (IIS)
Greatly improved Terminal Services
Network Access Protection provides additional possibilities to protect the network. Active Directory is now a generic term for various components. The actual Active Directory can now be found under the heading Active Directory Domain Services. Other members of the family are the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (formerly ADAM), certificate of service, the rights management services and composite services. Windows Deployment Services will to install the client in place of RIS (Remote Installation Services)
A new server virtualization solution called Hyper-V
In addition to these "big" points Windows Server 2008 contains many more "minor" changes, which start at a new printer management and not in a renewed user interface stop. Other aspects such as the consistent integration of IPv6, or the ability to manage the server using PowerShell on the text interface, complete the image in a positive way. It is now natural to ask what in Windows Server 2008 R2 compared to Windows Server 2008 is actually new. First, it should be noted that, as expected, more detail changes have been made. After all, even suggested the name of the operating system already that not everything has been turned upside down more or less radical. In other words, the step from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 is much smaller than that of Windows Server 2003 was to Windows Server 2008. After all, the current version is also not Windows Server 2010, but 2008 R2. So that you are not too disappointed, I would note that the differences between 2008 and 2008 R2 are already greater than from 2003 to 2003 R2.
Who is running Windows Server 2008 has more or less intense, is first trip over something changed surface of Windows Server 2008 R2. The new server operating system has the new, wide menu bar, you may be familiar from Windows 7 (Figure 1.9). A big surprise is likely to approach the surface of the current client operating system but its not - we have finally seen in the past. Windows Server 2008 (not R2) had the Vista interface, Windows Server 2003, the XP user interface and so on. The "new look" should not blind us as we have said about the fact that the 2008 R2 server is just an advanced Windows Server 2008 - no more, no less. Nevertheless, there are some exciting new features to discover. Especially if you introduce your company Windows 7, you will discover some interesting technologies that must be completed to support Windows Server 2008 R2. These are in particular the following features:
Direct Access:
This feature will be something announced full-bodied as the next-generation VPN. In fact, it is a very interesting approach, because DirectAccess ensures that mobile clients always have a transparent access to enterprise resources. On the one hand it provides a high level of comfort for the user, on the other hand it also allows direct access to manage mobile clients. BranchCache: If branches access central server, the challenge arises regularly that when transferring large files, the available bandwidth but are too small for a high-performance work. BranchCache stores large files in the office, and transfers between them thus only once over the WAN link.
These features require Windows 7 on the client and server side Windows Server 2008 R2. "Server side" did not signify that all servers in the organization now have to be changed to 2008 R2 - only the systems that provide the functionality of the clients must be up to date. Another »Windows 7 Support Feature" are the improved Windows Deployment Services. Only with the Windows Server 2008 R2 version of these services, all deployment capabilities of Windows exploit the 7th
Generally, it is worth noting the subject of interoperability that a R2 server wonderfully in a 2008 environment (not R2) works as well, and vice versa: A single Windows Server works 2008 (without R2) problem in an otherwise pure R2 environment. A first summarizes what new features are included in the 2008 R2 server over the old version. Here you will find a briefly the collection that "complex" features can be found later in the book. A second set of changes can be found in the listed features are also with R2-innovations, from these are likely more for the "little brother" Windows 7 will be interesting. Clear improvements in biometric authentication are great and desirable - in the server environment but they are certainly less relevant. Some of the features listed have to speak two facets: When BranchCache and DirectAccess, an R2 server to be both client and server. I can not imagine that there is a server in the world, acting as a DirectAccess client - but please, it would be possible.
