Friday, December 18, 2009

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 is a Windows server line of operating systems developed by the Microsoft. It was launched on February 27, 2008 and the successor of Windows Server 2003 which was launched nearly five years before. Its updated version, Windows Server 2008 R2, was launched on July 22, 2009. It is constructed on Windows NT 6.x as similar with Windows Vista and Windows 7.

It is developed from the similar code base like Windows Vista. So, because of code similarity, it automatically supports most of the technical, security, management and administrative features which are new to Windows Vista like the enhanced image-based installation, deployment and recovery and many more.

Windows Server 2008 comprises of a fluctuation of installation known as Server Core. In this all of the sustainment work is performed with the command line interface windows. Alternatively, this work can be performed by linking the machine remotely with the help of Microsoft Management Console.

It provides high-availability of services and applications with the Failover Clustering. In the Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, the manner in which the clusters are specified, is altering significantly with the insertion of the cluster validation wizard. The cluster validation wizard is a feature that is incorporated with the failover clustering in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. If you want to execute a set of focused tests on a collection of servers, that you specify to use as nodes in a cluster, then you can perform this with the help of cluster validation wizard.

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