40 Degrees in West Michigan this morning! I walked from the car to the class with no coat and loving it!
This post comes to you live from New Horizons training center, where, I have finished the morning labs and have a few free moments to spare!
I am attending a Microsoft event for Windows Server 2003 R2 hands on Lab, which is a cross between a Microsoft commercial and a class as we are having hands on with the new version of the operating system. Some nice features for those of us that manage Windows Environments!
A brief Windows 2003 R2 recap below:
DFS (File and Print Services)
DFS enchantments (drag drop rename multi domain, new management console)
DFS re-written from the ground up featuring Remote Differential Compression to shorten replication times.
16K blocks per file so a large file being changed only the change is replicated not the whole file
supports remote backups
failover with failback
new reporting capabilities through management console
two parts of DFS now
DFS-N (Name space to allow multiple name spaces)
DFS-R (Replication)
Other areas:
remote management of PC (if HW SW supports it ) with remote device turned off
new centralized print management console sees all print servers through enterprise
Storage Management file server resource manager & Storage server for SANs
new sharepoint
much better IIS performance and management features
MORE!
3 comments:
You forgot the most important!!
The licensing of R2 allows you to use virtual software and have 4 copies running on the same machine .. legally!
Yea, if you want to use MS's Virtual Server, which, so far has crashed 3 tims in class for me today (and for others to)
mind you this is on powerfull workstations here with high CPU and much RAM and CLEAN images that were just loaded this morning.
Give me VMWare any day!
No no, the virtual deal works for vmware too! (I checked)
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