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Windows Server 2008 R2 Edition Summaries New and Updated Features in Windows Server 2008 R2 Overall Edition Differentiation Edition Comparisons By Server Role By Core Installation Option By Differentiated Feature By Technical Specifications By Distribution Channel By Language System Requirements

EditionSummary Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation is a entry-level cost-effective technology foundation for your business. Targeted at small Business owners and IT Generalists supporting small businesses. Foundation is an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy, proven and reliable technology that provides organizations with the foundation to run the most prevalent business applications as well as share information and resources. Windows Server® 2008 R2 Standard is an advanced server platform that provides more cost-effective and reliable support for business workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise is an advanced server platform that provides more cost-effective and reliable support for mission-critical workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows Server® 2008 R2 Datacenter is an advanced server platform that provides more cost-effective and reliable support for mission-critical workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources. Windows ® Web Server 2008 R2 is a powerful Web application and services platform. Featuring Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 and designed exclusively as an Internet-facing server, it offers improved administration and diagnostic tools to help reduce infrastructure costs when used with a variety of popular development platforms. With included Web Server and DNS Server roles, as well as improved reliability and scalability, this platform allows you to manage the most demanding environments — from a dedicated Web server to an entire Web server farm. Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems delivers an enterprise-class platform for deploying business- critical applications. Scale database, line-of-business, and custom applications to meet growing business needs. Help improve availability with failover clustering and dynamic hardware partitioning capabilities*. Virtualize deployments with rights to run an unlimited number of virtual instances of Windows Server**. Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems helps provide the foundation for a highly dynamic IT infrastructure. *Requires supporting server hardware. ** Requires a third-party virtualization technology. Hyper-V TM is not available for Itanium-based systems.

New/Updated Feature Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation License Requirements Hyper-V TM   Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Internet Information Services 7.5  Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Network Access Protection    Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. AD Rights Management Services    Covered by server license, but incremental RMS CALs required, similar to Remote Desktop Services. Remote Desktop Services    Covered by server license, but incremental RDS CALs required, similar to AD Rights Management Services. Server Manager  Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Windows Deployment Services    Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Server Core   Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. Windows PowerShell TM  Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. BranchCache TM Content Server    Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. BranchCache TM Hosted Server   Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements. DirectAccess   Covered by server license. No incremental licensing requirements.  - Available  - Not Available

Scalability High Availability Security Features Virtualization 1 Physical processor 15 User Limit 8 GB RAM 4 Physical processors 32 GB RAM Web (IIS) and DNS Roles Only For Internet Facing Web Servers 64 Physical processors 2 TB RAM Unlimited Virtualization Rights 1 Hot Add/Replace Memory* Hot Add/Replace Processors* Failover Clustering Cross-File Replication (DFS-R) Support for Intel’s MCA 2 Web (IIS) and Application Roles Only for Database, Customer and LOB Apps. 4 Physical processors 32 GB RAM 1 Virtual Machine + Host 8 Physical processors 2 TB RAM 4 Virtual Machine + Host Hot Add Memory* Failover Clustering Cross-File Replication (DFS-R) Active Directory Federation Services Active Directory Certificate Services Unlimited RRAS, IAS Connections Unlimited RDS Gateway Connections Unlimited DFS Roots 64 Physical processors 2 TB RAM Unlimited Virtualization Rights Hot Add/Replace Memory* Hot Add/Replace Processors* Failover Clustering Cross-File Replication (DFS-R) Active Directory Federation Services Active Directory Certificate Services Unlimited RRAS, IAS Connections Unlimited RDS Gateway Connections Unlimited DFS Roots Editions

Server RoleEnterpriseDatacenterStandardItaniumWebFoundation Web Services (IIS)  Application Server    Print and Document Services    Hyper-V   Active Directory Domain Services    Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services    Active Directory Rights Management Services    DHCP Server    DNS Server    Fax Server    Windows Deployment Services    Active Directory Certificate Services 11  11 File Services 22  22 Network Policy and Access Services 33  55 Remote Desktop Services 44  66 Active Directory Federation Services   Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)     - Full  - Partial/Limited  - Not Available 1 – Limited to creating Certificate Authorities – no other ADCS features (NDES, Online Responder Service). See ADCS role documentation on TechNet for more information 2 – Limited to 1 standalone DFS root 3 – Limited to 250 RRAS connections, 50 IAS connections and 2 IAS Server Groups 4 – Limited to 250 Remote Desktop Services connections 5 – Limited to 50 RRAS connections, 10 IAS connections 6 – Limited to 50 Remote Desktop Services connections

Server RoleEnterpriseDatacenterStandardWebItaniumFoundation Server Core Web Services (IIS)  Not Available Print Services   Hyper-V   Active Directory Domain Services   Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services   Active Directory Certificate Services   Media Services *  DHCP Server   DNS Server  File Services 11  The Server Core installation option of the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. A Server Core installation provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles that reduces the maintenance and management requirements and the attack surface for those server roles. A Server Core installation supports the following server roles:Server Core  - Full  - Partial/Limited  - Not Available 1 – Limited to 1 standalone DFS root * Must be downloaded separately.

FeatureEnterpriseDatacenterStandardWebItaniumFoundation.NET Framework Features  BITS Server Extensions    BitLocker Drive Encryption    BranchCache TM    RAS Connection Manager Administrator Kit    Desktop Experience    DirectAccess Management   Failover Clustering     Group Policy Management Console  Ink and Handwriting Services    Internet Printing Client    Multipath IO  Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)    Windows Server Backup Features  Windows Network Load Balancing (WNLB)  Storage SAN Manager for SANS    Simple TCP/IP Services  SMTP    Subsystem for Unix-Based Applications (SUA)     - Available  - Not Available

FeatureEnterpriseDatacenterStandardWebItaniumFoundation SNMP  Administration Tools  Telnet Client  Telnet Server  RPC Over HTTP Proxy    Windows Process Activation Server  Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)    Wireless Client    Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)  Windows Server Backup  Windows Biometric Framework  Windows Internal Database    Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)   - Available  - Not Available  - Available  - Not Available

FeatureEnterpriseDatacenterStandardWebItaniumFoundation.NET 3.0  Remote Differential Compression    Remote Assistance    Remote Server Admin Tools  TFTP Client    RDC    Peer Name Resolution Protocol  Windows PowerShell TM  Quality Windows Audio Video Experience    LPR Port Monitor  XPS Viewer    Wireless LAN Service    WINS Server    Windows Server Migration Tools    Windows TIFF IFilter   - Available  - Not Available

SpecificationWebStandardEnterpriseDatacenterItaniumFoundation X64 Sockets44864  1 IA64 Sockets  64  X64 RAM32 GB 2 TB  8 GB IA64 RAM  2 TB  Hot Add Memory    Hot Replace Memory    Hot Add Processors    Hot Replace Processors    Failover Cluster Nodes (Nodes)  16 8  Fault Tolerant Memory Sync    Cross-File Replication (DFS-R)    Network Access Connections (RRAS)  250Unlimited  50 Network Access Connections (IAS)  50Unlimited 210 Remote Desktop Services Gateway  250Unlimited  50 Virtual Image Use RightsGuestHost + 1 VMHost + 4 VMUnlimited  Remote Desktop Admin Connections  - Available  - Not Available

ChannelStandardEnterpriseDatacenterWebItaniumFoundation FPP Retail (FPP)     EVAL Retail (FPP) EVALUATION   Retail (FPP) NOT FOR RESALE    VL Volume Licensing (VL)   OEM OEM (Direct OEM)  OEM SBC (System Builder / COEM)   Special Programs MSDN   TechNet   IT Academy   Microsoft Partner Program (MSPP)   MSPP Learning Solutions   Microsoft Action Pack (MAPS)     Dreamspark   Empower    - Available  - Not Available

LanguageEnterpriseDatacenterStandardWebItaniumFoundation English  German  Japanese  French  Spanish    Chinese – Simplified 11  Italian    Chinese – Traditional 11  Chinese – Hong-Kong    Russian    Korean 11  Brazilian Portuguese    Dutch    Swedish    Portuguese    Polish    Turkish    Czech    Hungarian     - Available  - Not Available 1 – Language pack only

SpecificationAll Editions ProcessorMinimum1.4 GHz (x64 processor) or faster (Limited 1 Processor for Foundation) Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems MemoryMinimum512 MB RAM Maximum8 GB (Foundation) 32 GB (Standard, Web Server, ) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, and Itanium-based Systems) Available Disk Space*Minimum32 GB or greater Other RequirementsDVD Drive Super-VGA (800 × 600) or higher-resolution monitor Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device Internet access (fees may apply) * Note: Computers with more than 16 GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files Actual requirements will vary based on your system configuration and the applications and features you choose to install. Processor performance is dependent upon not only the clock frequency of the processor, but also on the number of cores and the size of the processor cache. Disk space requirements for the system partition are approximate. Itanium will vary from these disk size estimates. Additional available hard-disk space may be required if you are installing over a network. For more information, please see