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Overview of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Active Directory Domain Services Remote Access for Mobile Workers Branch Office Enhancements. Support for Windows Failover Clusters Failover clusters can be configured to be part of a replication group. Scalability improvements to support up to 60,000 links.

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Overview of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Active Directory Domain Services Remote Access for Mobile Workers Branch Office Enhancements. Support for Windows Failover Clusters Failover clusters can be configured to be part of a replication group. Scalability improvements to support up to 60,000 links.

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Overview of Microsoft Windows

Server 2008 R2
Windows Server Release Cadence
Delivering on the Promise of New Value

Today

2 years 4 years 2 years

Major Release Release Update Major Release Release Update Next Major
2003 2005 2008 2009 H2 Release ~2012
Active Directory Domain Services

New Active Directory Domain Services


management console
 PowerShell integration/Built on Power

Recovery of deleted objects


 New AD Recycle Bin

Improved process for joining domains


 Offline domain join

Improved management of user accounts


and identity services
 Managed service accounts

Improved Active Directory Federated Services


 Authentication assurance
Remote Access for Mobile Workers
Make Users Productive Anywhere

Windows Server 2008 R2 &


Situation Today
Windows 7 Solution
Direct Access ™

Office Home Office Home

 Difficult for users to access corporate  New network paradigm enables same
resources from outside the office experience inside & outside the office
 Challenging for IT to manage, update,  Seamless access to network resources
patch mobile PCs while disconnected increases productivity of mobile users
from company network  Infrastructure investments also make
it easy to service mobile PCs and
distribute updates and polices
Branch Office Enhancements

Situation Today Windows Server 2008 R2


BranchCache™

 Application and data access over  Caches content downloaded


WAN is slow in branch offices from file and Web servers
 Slow connections hurt user productivity  Users in the branch can quickly
 Improving network performance is open files stored in the cache
expensive and difficult to implement  Frees up network bandwidth for other uses
Windows Server 2008 R2
File Services
Distributed File System

Windows Server Backup

File Classification Infrastructure


Distributed File System

Support for Windows Failover Clusters

Failover clusters can be configured to be part of a


replication group.

Scalability Improvements

DFS Namespaces has enhanced its scalability to


support up to 60,000 links.
Windows Server Backup

 Backup only the system state data (including


incremental system state backups).

 Schedulebackups for both volumes and shared


network resources.

 Includeor exclude folders or individual files.


Exclude files based on the file type.
File Classification Infrastructure

 bydefining file classification properties,


automatically classify files based on location and
content, applying file management tasks

 Define File Classification


 Classify Files

 Apply Management Tasks

 File Expiration (stale files)

 Custom Tasks

 Reports
Windows Server 2008 R2
BranchCache
reduces WAN link utilization

improves application responsiveness

◦ Distributed Cache mode

◦ Hosted Cache mode


Distributed Cache Mode
Hosted Cache Mode
Resources
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Sessions On-Demand & Community Microsoft Certification
& Training Resources

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Resources for IT Professionals Resources for Developers

www.microsoft.com/learning
Microsoft Certification and Training Resources

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