Chapter 12: Other Features and Enhancements


Overview

In the last several chapters, we’ve highlighted some of the exciting new features and enhancements that are included in Microsoft Windows Server 2008. We’ve examined improvements to Active Directory and Terminal Services, the new Network Access Protection platform, the all new Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0, improvements to Failover Clustering, the new Windows server core installation of Windows Server 2008, the Windows Server Virtualization architecture, and various new and improved management tools.

Obviously there’s more. What about core networking improvements? New and enhanced security features? New storage features and enhancements? New tools for deployment? Volume activation and licensing changes? We haven’t talked about these yet, so let’s discuss them now. You can think of this chapter as a general grab bag of features we haven’t talked about before now. Lumping them together in this chapter in no way is intended to suggest that these features are less important than features that were given an entire chapter of their own. It’s just that this book was never intended as a comprehensive, systematic guide to all of Windows Server 2008-that would take at least 1500 pages to achieve. But I was told by Microsoft Press to keep the page count down to around 400 pages max, and I’ve written a lot about some topics either because I know a lot about them or the product team helped out a lot. That means I’ll have to finish up my roundup of feature discussions with the whirlwind tour you’ll be presented with in this chapter.

But this chapter won’t be just a bunch of bullet points. In fact, most of this chapter has been written by various members of Windows Server 2008 feature teams. As a result, I’ll keep out of their way most of the time and let them do the talking. Feature teams are justifiably very proud of what they accomplish, so I wanted to give them the maximum opportunity to describe their new features and how they work, how to implement them, and how to troubleshoot them.

Don’t expect coverage in this chapter, however, of every remaining new feature or enhancement of Windows Server 2008. Remember, this book is based on Beta 3 (with some chapters focusing on near-Beta 3 because of the time constraints of getting this book done in time for TechEd) and that means some features are not fixed yet while others might not even be revealed until the Release Candidate stage of development. So if I miss discussing some feature you’d love to hear about, forgive me-with luck, the depth of information provided about other features will make up for any omissions.

Note that one topic I’ll defer until later is deploying Windows Server 2008. We’ll cover that topic briefly in Chapter 13, “Deploying Windows Server 2008,” where it will fit in better with some practical advice on testing Windows Server 2008 for your environment. We’ll also cover Volume Activation 2.0 in Chapter 13 because licensing and activation are closely related to the topic of deployment.




Microsoft Windows Server Team - Introducing Windows Server 2008
Introducing Windows Server 2008
ISBN: 0735624216
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 138

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