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871:(RODCs), intended for use in branch office or other scenarios where a domain controller may reside in a low physical security environment. The RODC holds a non-writeable copy of Active Directory, and redirects all write attempts to a full domain controller. It replicates all accounts except sensitive ones. In RODC mode, credentials are not cached by default. Also, local administrators can be designated to log on to the machine to perform maintenance tasks without requiring administrative rights on the entire domain. 1914:, the same version that shipped with Windows Vista. The last supported version of Internet Explorer for Windows Server 2008 was Internet Explorer 9, released in 2011. Internet Explorer 9 was continually updated with cumulative monthly update rollups until support for Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Server 2008 ended on January 14, 2020. IE9 continued to receive updates as long as the operating system was with Extended Security Updates until January 10, 2023 for non-Azure customers and January 9, 2024 for 66: 1336: 1008: 4896: 4886: 4876: 75: 712: 1068:, which is defined by the name, type or owner of the process, enforces restrictions on the resource usage by a process that matches the criteria. CPU time, bandwidth that it can use, number of processors it can be run on, and allocated to a process can be restricted. Restrictions can be set to be imposed only on certain dates as well. 2070:) available to volume license customers. Microsoft will, however, honor the program for customers who purchased it between March 2017 and July 2018 (while it was available). The program provides an extra six years of security update support, until January 13, 2026. This will mark the final end of all security updates for the 931:
run a set of focused tests on a collection of servers that are intended to use as nodes in a cluster. This cluster validation process tests the underlying hardware and software directly, and individually, to obtain an accurate assessment of how well failover clustering can be supported on a given configuration.
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Support for the RTM version of Windows Server 2008 ended on July 12, 2011, and users can no longer receive further security updates for the operating system. As a component of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 continued to be supported with security updates, lasting until January
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until Windows Server 2008 reached its end of life – one package containing security and quality updates, and a smaller package that contained only the security updates. Users could choose which package they wanted to install each month. Later in the month, another package would be released which was
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In Windows Server 2008, the way clusters are qualified changed significantly with the introduction of the cluster validation wizard. The cluster validation wizard is a feature that is integrated into failover clustering in Windows Server 2008. With the cluster validation wizard, an administrator can
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Installing the preview rollup package released for Windows Server 2008 on March 19, 2019, or any later released rollup package, will update the operating system kernel's build number from version 6.0.6002 to 6.0.6003. This change was made so Microsoft could continue to service the operating system
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Windows Server 2008 was eligible for the paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. The program allowed volume license customers to purchase, in yearly installments, security updates for the operating system for three additional years, until January 10, 2023. The program was also included with
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purchases, and Azure customers received an extra year of support, until January 9, 2024. The licenses are paid for on a per-machine basis. If a user purchases an Extended Security Updates license in a later year of the program, they must pay for any previous years of Extended Security Updates as
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on October 22, 2009. New features added in Windows Server 2008 R2 include new virtualization features, new Active Directory features, Internet Information Services 7.5 and support for up to 256 logical processors. It is the first server operating system by Microsoft to exclusively support 64-bit
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volume, it marked the volume "dirty"; to correct errors on the volume, it had to be taken offline. With self-healing NTFS, an NTFS worker thread is spawned in the background which performs a localized fix-up of damaged data structures, with only the corrupted files/folders remaining unavailable
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editions of Windows Server 2008, prior to Microsoft's release of the final version of Hyper-V on 26 June 2008 as a free download. Also, a standalone variant of Hyper-V exists; this variant supports only x86-64 architecture. While the IA-32 editions of Windows Server 2008 cannot run or install
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Beta 1 was released on July 27, 2005; Beta 2 was announced and released on May 23, 2006, at WinHEC 2006 and Beta 3 was released publicly on April 25, 2007. Release Candidate 0 was released to the general public on September 24, 2007 and Release Candidate 1 was released to the general public on
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Microsoft planned to end support for Windows Server 2008 on January 12, 2016. However, in order to give customers more time to migrate to newer Windows versions, particularly in developing or emerging markets, Microsoft decided to extend support to January 14, 2020.
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allowed the installation of updates for Windows Server 2008 on Windows Vista, adding nearly 3 years of security updates to that operating system (Support for Windows Vista ended on April 11, 2017, while support for Windows Server 2008 ended on January 14, 2020).
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In June 2018, Microsoft announced that they would be moving Windows Server 2008 to a monthly update model beginning with updates released in September 2018 – two years after Microsoft switched the rest of their supported operating systems to that model.
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Restartable Active Directory allows ADDS to be stopped and restarted from the Management Console or the command-line without rebooting the domain controller. This reduces downtime for offline operations and reduces overall DC servicing requirements with
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gathers together all of the operations users would want to conduct on the server, such as, getting a remote deployment method set up, adding more server roles etc., and provides a consolidated, portal-like view about the status of each role.
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program, known as DreamSpark at the time, used to provide verified students with the 32-bit variant of Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, but the version has since then been removed. However, they still provide the R2 release.
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of these devices. This allows the system resources to be partitioned dynamically using dynamic hardware partitioning – each partition has its own memory, processor and I/O host bridge devices independent of other partitions.
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Server Manager is a new roles-based management tool for Windows Server 2008. It is a combination of Manage Your Server and Security Configuration Wizard from Windows Server 2003. Server Manager is an improvement of the
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Granular password settings within a single domain – ability to implement different password policies for administrative accounts on a "group" and "user" basis, instead of a single set of password settings to the whole
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Service Pack 2 was initially announced on October 24, 2008 and released on May 26, 2009. Service Pack 2 added new features, such as Windows Search 4.0, support for Bluetooth 2.1, the ability to write to
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enhancements – SYSVOL on DFS-R, Read-only Folder Replication Member. There is also support for domain-based DFS namespaces that exceed the previous size recommendation of 5,000 folders with targets in a
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The ability to resize hard disk partitions without stopping the server, even the system partition. This applies only to simple and spanned volumes, not to striped volumes.
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Andrew Mason, a program manager on the Windows Server team, noted that a primary motivation for producing a Server Core variant of Windows Server 2008 was to reduce the
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11, the XPS library, the Windows Automation API and the Portable Device Platform. A supplemental update was released in 2011 to provide improvements and bug fixes.
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Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) is integrated into Windows Server 2008. It provides resource management and can be used to control the amount of resources a
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of the operating system, and that about 70% of the security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows from the prior five years would not have affected Server Core.
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variants. These editions come in two DVDs: One for installing the IA-32 variant and the other for x64. Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems supports
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from Windows Vista are included. Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) is built-in. The Group Policy objects are indexed for search and can be commented on.
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layer. It can be thought of as partitioning a single physical server into multiple small computational partitions. Hyper-V includes the ability to act as a
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Prior to the ESU program becoming available, Windows Server 2008 was eligible for the now discontinued, paid Premium Assurance program (an add-on to
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1.0, improved backwards compatibility with Terminal Server license keys and an approximate 10% reduction in power usage with this service pack.
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dialog that launches by default on Windows Server 2003 machines. However, rather than serve only as a starting point to configuring new roles,
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virtualization hypervisor host allowing Xen-enabled guest operating systems to run virtualized. A beta version of Hyper-V shipped with certain
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The Active Directory domain functionality that was retained from Windows Server 2003 was renamed to Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS).
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December 5, 2007. Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and officially launched on the 27th of that month.
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and thus it shares much of the same architecture and functionality. Since the codebase is common, Windows Server 2008 inherits most of the
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algorithm. As a result of this Microsoft released several updates throughout 2019 to add SHA-2 signing support to Windows Server 2008.
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With the new update model, instead of updates being released as they became available, only two update packages were released on the
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Screenshot of Windows Server 2008 showing the Server Manager application which is automatically opened when an administrator logs on
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protocol in the new TCP/IP stack provides a number of communication enhancements, including greater performance when connecting to
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protocol, has been removed. Services for Macintosh were initially removed in Windows XP but were available in Windows Server 2003.
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software, forming a core part of Microsoft's virtualization strategy. It virtualizes servers on an operating system's
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Self-healing NTFS: In Windows versions prior to Windows Vista, if the operating system detected corruption in the
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user interface as Windows Vista, both for local users, as well as remote users connecting through Remote Desktop.
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Dynamic Hardware Partitioning supports hot-addition or replacement of processors and memory, on capable hardware.
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for certain applications or services that require prioritization of network bandwidth between client and server.
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Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), (formerly Active Directory Application Mode, or ADAM)
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installation, deployment and recovery; improved diagnostics, monitoring, event logging and reporting tools;
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1.1 and 1.2 support to Windows Server 2008, however it is disabled by default after installing the update.
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Computers with more than 16 GB of RAM require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files
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On October 27, 2009, Microsoft released the Platform Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. It
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discs, and simpler Wi-Fi configuration. Windows Server 2008 specifically received the final release of
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Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) allow administrators to manage user accounts and the
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processors. The IA-64 variant is optimized for high-workload scenarios like database servers and
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The Server Core feature is available in the Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions.
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Service Pack 2 with August 2024 monthly update rollup (6.0.6003.22825) / August 13, 2024
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processors, while consumer-oriented versions of Windows maintained 32-bit support until
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This feature is only available in Enterprise and Datacenter editions of Windows Server.
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2005, which serves as a common storage back-end for several other components such as
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Paid updates; only for Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter volume licensed editions:
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A Server Core installation can be configured for several basic roles, including the
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Windows Server 2008 offers high availability to services and applications through
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The last free security update rollup packages were released on January 14, 2020.
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Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 share the same service pack update binary.
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The RTM release of Windows Server 2008 already includes the updates and fixes of
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for Server Core. Because Server Core does not include a shell, programs such as
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on February 4, 2008, and generally to retail on February 27, 2008. Derived from
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without locking out the entire volume and needing the server to be taken down.
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Windows Server 2008 supports the following maximum hardware specifications:
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detection techniques were added to help determine when a hard disk may fail.
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is replaced by Windows Server Backup, and no longer supports backing up to
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ESU (Extended Security Updates) support ended on January 10, 2023, for non-
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based block-level backup which supports optical media, network shares and
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and some Control Panel applets, such as Regional Settings, are available.
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As of July 2019, 60% of Windows servers were running Windows Server 2008.
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Windows Server 2008 Foundation (codenamed "Lima"; x86-64) for OEMs only
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in 2021. It is also the final version of Windows Server that supports
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Starting in March 2019, Microsoft began transitioning to exclusively
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service has been removed from Internet Information Services 7.0. The
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14, 2020, the same respective end-of-life dates of its successor,
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a preview of the next month's security and quality update rollup.
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Windows Storage Server 2008 (codenamed "Magni"; IA-32 and x86-64)
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Premium Assurance security update support until January 13, 2026.
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Windows Server 2008 includes a variation of installation called
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over high-latency links and better security through the use of
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virtual server roles. Server Core can also be used to create a
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An optional "desktop experience" component provides the same
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for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, formally designed
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A second release of Windows Server 2008 based on Windows 7,
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System requirements for Windows Server 2008 are as follows:
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officially is version 4.6, released on October 15, 2015.
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Windows Server 2008 Foundation Released on May 21, 2009.
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to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, including the
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that allow them to access certain services and systems.
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windows, or by connecting to the machine remotely using
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Windows Server 2008 is built from the same codebase as
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It is the last version of Windows Server that supports
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Most editions of Windows Server 2008 are available in
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Windows Server 2008 shares most of its updates with
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