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Windows Server 2008 R2 – the Windows Server operating system with built-in, enhanced Web capabilities and included virtualization technology, designed to increase the reliability and flexibility of your server.

Enhanced security features help protect your data and network, and provide you with a solid, highly dependable foundation for your business. Additionally, powerful tools give you greater control over your servers and streamline configuration and management tasks.

Web Application Platform
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes many enhancements that make this release the most robust Windows Server Web application platform yet. It offers an updated Web server role, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and greater support for .NET on Server Core.

Virtualization
Virtualization is a major part of today’s data centers. The operating efficiencies offered by virtualization allow organizations to dramatically reduce operational effort and power consumption. Windows Server 2008 R2 provides the following virtualization types: Client and Server virtualization provided by Hyper-V and Presentation virtualization with Remote Desktop Services.

Scalability and Reliability
Windows Server 2008 R2 is capable of unprecedented workload size, dynamic scalability, and across-the-board availability and reliability. A host of new and updated features will be available, including leveraging sophisticated CPU architectures, increased operating system componentization, and improved performance and scalability for applications and services.

Management
The ongoing management of servers in the data center is one of the most time-consuming tasks facing IT professionals today. Any management strategy you deploy must support the management of both your physical and virtual environments. To help with this problem, Windows Server 2008 R2 has new features to reduce the ongoing management of Windows Server 2008 R2 and to reduce the administrative effort for common day-to-day operational tasks.

Better Together with Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2 has many features that are designed specifically to work with client computers running Windows 7. Windows 7 is the next version of the Windows client operating system from Microsoft.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard offers the following features and capabilities:

• Support for 32GB of RAM
• Scalable up to 4 x64/64-bit processors
• Up to 250 Network Access Service connections (RRAS)
• Up to 50 Network Policy Server connections
• Up to 250 Remote Services Gateway connections
• Supports Hyper-V-based virtualization and one free virtual instance
• AD Rights Management Services
• BranchCache Content Server
• Direct Access
• Hyper-V
• Network Access Protection (NAP)
• Remote Desktop Services
• Internet Information Services 7.5
• Server Core Support
• Server Manager
• Windows Powershell 2.0

Processor
Minimum: 1.4 GHz (x64 processor)
Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems

Memory
Minimum: 512 MB RAM
Maximum: 8 GB (Foundation) or 32 GB (Standard) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, and Itanium-Based Systems)

Disk Space Requirements
Minimum: 32 GB or greater - Foundation: 10 GB or greater
Note: Computers with more than 16 GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files

Display
Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher resolution monitor 

Other
DVD Drive, Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse (or compatible pointing device), Internet access (fees may apply)