1. Windows Server 2012 What’s new ? AuthorKrzysztof Pytko Wroclaw 2012 Krzysztof.Pytko@outlook.com

2. Windows Server 2012 editions standard enterprise datacenter All components are available in both Windows Server editions No more Windows Small Business Server editions in the future

3. Option to switch between GUI, non-GUI version Operating System types Windows Server GUI Windows Server core Preferred installation type: Windows Server core Might suggest GUI remove in the future Windows releases

4. New Graphical Interface No classic START button Modern UI (former Metro UI)

5. New way of server management New Server Manager PowerShell v3.0 WinRM 3.0 Supported Windows versions in the new Server Manager: - Windows Server 2008 (required Windows Management Framework 3.0) - Windows Server 2008R2(required Windows Management Framework 3.0) - Windows Server 2012

6. New Server Manager features Remote role/feature installation Remote server management Closing Server Manager does not break role/feature installation All tasks are translated to PowerShell v3.0 code PowerShell v3.0 code run in the background

7. Improved server roles Active Directory: Directory Services DHCPIPAM Hyper-V 3.0PowerShell v3.0 File Server DirectAccess Branch Cache IIS 8.0 Volume Activation Services Failover Cluster

8. DHCP DHCP Failover configuration for scopes Failover scopes replication Split scope wizard

9. IPAM Combination of DNS server DHCP server Network Policy Server (NPS) Domain Controller

10. File Server New file system ReFS no boot/system volume support no EFS support no AD database support auto correct data no conversion from NTFS Available only on Windows Server 2012

11. File Server New file permissions type Dynamic Access Control in Active Directory Administrative Center Enhancement for NTFS classic permissions Requires new way of thinking Applied over File Server Resource Manager

12. Activation over AD Support for existing KMS server(s) Volume Activation Services KMS Support for VAMT 3.0 VAMT Active Directory Based Activation

13. DirectAccess No internal PKI required Full Windows PowerShell support Kerberos PROXYSingle NIC Support for multiple domains

14. Failover Cluster Single NIC, no heartbeat card required Disk pooling Simple cluster wizard Available also in Windows Standard edition Up to 64 nodes Up to 4000 Virtual machines Single node can host to 1024 Virtual Machines Cluster- Aware Updating (CAU) Supported by RODC

15. Branch Cache Integrated with File Server Automatic computer configuration No limit for number of offices Single GPO for each office Bandwidth savings Cache encrypted by default PowerShell and WMI for management No server certificate required More than one hosted cache server

16. Hyper-V 3.0 veeam support Support for 320 cores and 4TB of RAM on host server Support for 64 vCPU and 1TB of RAM for guest server Built-in NIC teamingHyper-V replica Live migration Support for popular Linux editions Support for FreeBSD

17. PowerShell 3.0 Online help update Server Manager and ADAC creates PowerShell code PowerShell Web AccessScheduled jobs Map network drives A lot of new cmd-lets

18. Active Directory: Directory Services Actions based on PowerShell Remote Domain Controller promotion No DCPROMO command Offline domain join (djoin.exe) No manual ADPREP required No support for Windows 2000 Domain Controllers

19. Active Directory: Directory Services Active Directory Recycle Bin New Fine-Grained Password Policy PowerShell commands history in ADAC

20. Active Directory: Directory Services New Server Manager RSAT for Windows 8 Remote Domain Controller promotion Server roles separation

21. Active Directory: Directory Services DC cloning from VHDDC restore from snapshot AD/FRS replication status in GPMC Extended RID pool (2^31) RID pool reuse (sidCompatibilityVersion = 1) Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) msDS-GroupManagedServiceAccount

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