Windows Server 2008

1. Server Core Installation
Server Core installations provide a minimal environment for specific roles.
-Active Directory Domain Services
-DNS/DHCP
-File and Print Server
-IIS

2. Hyper-V
Microsoft loves talking about Hyper-V, the virtualization technology built into Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V provides a layer between the hardware and the operating system which allows virtual machines the ability to communicate directly with the hardware, bypassing the host operating system and increasing performance.

3. Terminal Services
Microsoft has 3 new Terminal Services components, RemoteApp, TS WebAccess, and TS Gateway. These concepts will be familiar to any Citrix administrator.

4. Self Healing NTFS
There is a worker thread which runs in the background that corrects the NTFS partition should any problems be found.

5. Support for Hot Swappable Components
Windows Server 2008, while it is up and running, will acknowledge any hardware changes when hot swapping components.

6. Network Access Protection (NAP)
NAP keeps non-compliant computers off your network. NAP can monitor specific computer settings to enforce your workstation compliance standards.

7. Others
Windows Server 2008 includes IIS 7.0 which is a new build that is more capable of delivering streaming media, ASP, and PHP content and applications. It also has an updated management tool which allows you to manage multiple IIS servers from a single MMC.