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Windows Server 2008 R2 Edition SummariesNew and Updated Features in Windows Server 2008 R2Overall Edition DifferentiationEdition Comparisons

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System Requirements

Edition SummaryWindows 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 asimproved 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-VTM is not available for Itanium-based systems.

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1 Physical processor15 User Limit8 GB RAM

4 Physical processors32 GB RAM

Web (IIS) and DNS Roles OnlyFor Internet Facing Web Servers

64 Physical processors2 TB RAMUnlimited Virtualization Rights1

Hot Add/Replace Memory*Hot Add/Replace Processors*Failover ClusteringCross-File Replication (DFS-R)Support for Intel’s MCA2

Web (IIS) and Application Roles Only for Database, Customer and LOB Apps.

4 Physical processors32 GB RAM1 Virtual Machine + Host

8 Physical processors2 TB RAM4 Virtual Machine + HostHot Add Memory*Failover ClusteringCross-File Replication (DFS-R)Active Directory Federation ServicesActive Directory Certificate ServicesUnlimited RRAS, IAS ConnectionsUnlimited RDS Gateway ConnectionsUnlimited DFS Roots

64 Physical processors2 TB RAMUnlimited Virtualization RightsHot Add/Replace Memory*Hot Add/Replace Processors*Failover ClusteringCross-File Replication (DFS-R)Active Directory Federation ServicesActive Directory Certificate ServicesUnlimited RRAS, IAS ConnectionsUnlimited RDS Gateway ConnectionsUnlimited DFS Roots

Editions

Server Role Enterprise Datacenter Standard Itanium Web Foundation

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

File Services 2 2

Network Policy and Access Services 3 5

Remote Desktop Services 4 6

Active Directory Federation Services

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

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1 – Limited to creating Certificate Authorities – no other ADCS features (NDES, Online Responder Service). See ADCS role documentation on TechNet for more information2 – Limited to 1 standalone DFS root3 – Limited to 250 RRAS connections, 50 IAS connections and 2 IAS Server Groups4 – Limited to 250 Remote Desktop Services connections 5 – Limited to 50 RRAS connections, 10 IAS connections6 – Limited to 50 Remote Desktop Services connections

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:

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1 – Limited to 1 standalone DFS root* Must be downloaded separately.

Feature Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation

.NET Framework 3.5.1 Features

BITS Server Extensions

BitLocker Drive Encryption

BranchCacheTM

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)

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Feature Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation

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)

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Feature Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation

.NET 3.0

Remote Differential Compression

Remote Assistance

Remote Server Admin Tools

TFTP Client

RDC

Peer Name Resolution Protocol

Windows PowerShellTM

Quality Windows Audio Video Experience

LPR Port Monitor

XPS Viewer

Wireless LAN Service

WINS Server

Windows Server Migration Tools

Windows TIFF IFilter

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Specification Web Standard Enterprise Datacenter Itanium Foundation

X64 Sockets 4 4 8 64 1

IA64 Sockets 64

X64 RAM 32 GB 32 GB 2 TB 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 16 8

Fault Tolerant Memory Sync

Cross-File Replication (DFS-R)

Network Access Connections (RRAS)

250 Unlimited Unlimited 50

Network Access Connections (IAS)

50 Unlimited Unlimited 2 10

Remote Desktop Services Gateway

250 Unlimited Unlimited 50

Virtual Image Use Rights Guest Host + 1 VM Host + 4 VM Unlimited Unlimited

Remote Desktop Admin Connections

2 2 2 2 2 2

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Language Enterprise Datacenter Standard Web Itanium Foundation

English

German

Japanese

French

Spanish

Chinese – Simplified 1

Italian

Chinese – Traditional 1

Chinese – Hong-Kong

Russian

Korean 1

Brazilian Portuguese

Dutch

Swedish

Portuguese

Polish

Turkish

Czech

Hungarian

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Specification All Editions

Processor Minimum 1.4 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

Memory Minimum 512 MB RAM

Maximum 8 GB (Foundation) 32 GB (Standard, Web Server, ) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, and Itanium-based Systems)

Available Disk Space* Minimum 32 GB or greater

Other Requirements DVD DriveSuper-VGA (800 × 600) or higher-resolution monitorKeyboard and MicrosoftMouse or compatible pointing deviceInternet 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 www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008R2.