NEWS
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition
By VARINDIA - 2010-03-15
Windows Server 2003 is the most productive infrastructure platform for powering connected applications, networks and Web services from the workgroup to the data centre. Easy to deploy, manage and use, Windows Server 2003 helps you build a secure IT infrastructure that provides a powerful application platform for quickly building connected solutions and an information worker infrastructure for enhanced communication and collaboration anytime and anywhere.
Your organization can reap the cost-saving and productivity-enhancing benefits of the highest quality Windows Server ever. Doing more with less just got better! Windows Server 2003 R2 simplifies branch server management, improves identity and access management, reduces storage management costs, provides a rich Web platform, and offers cost-effective server virtualization.
What’s New in this Release?
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition is designed for departmental and standard workloads and delivers the following new features:
* It extends the Windows Server 2003 operating system, providing a more efficient way to manage and control access to local and remote resources while easily integrating into your existing Windows Server 2003 environment.
* It provides a scalable, security-enhanced Web platform, seamless interoperability with UNIX-based systems and enables new scenarios, including simplified branch server management, improved identity and access management and more efficient storage management.
*It Enterprise Edition also delivers dynamic new licensing that allows customers to get even more value out of server virtualization.
Key Features
Building upon the increased security, reliability and performance provided by Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Server 2003 R2 extends connectivity and control to local and remote resources.
*Simplified Branch Server Management
Windows Server 2003 R2 allows you to maintain the performance, availability and productivity benefits of a local branch office server while avoiding issues typically associated with branch office server solutions such as connectivity limitation and management overhead.
Improved Identity and Access Management
Windows Server 2003 R2 includes Active Directory Federation Services, which is designed to help administrators address identity management challenges by making it possible for organizations to share a user’s identity information more securely across security boundaries.
Reduced Storage Management Costs
Windows Server 2003 R2 includes new tools designed to provide a centralized view of storage; simplified storage planning, provisioning and maintenance; and improved monitoring and reporting. Rich Web Platform Windows Server 2003 R2 enables businesses to extend their infrastructure over the Web while reducing development and management costs through enhancements delivered with Windows Server 2003 SP1, x64 Editions, Windows SharePoint Services, .NET Framework 2.0 and Internet Information Services 6.0.
Cost-Effective Server Virtualization
Windows Server 2003 R2 will allow you to run up to four virtual instances of Windows Server 2003 R2 on one licensed physical server or hardware partition, thereby decreasing the costs of server virtualization. Seamless UNIX/Windows Interoperability UNIX Interoperability components in Windows Server 2003 R2 allow you to reduce costs by integrating UNIX and Windows systems to deliver a complete solution. The integration of security and directory services, file and printer sharing and re-use of UNIX code and IT skills across platforms delivers a simplified infrastructure.
Microsoft Windows Server Release Roadmap
Microsoft intends to provide a more predictable Windows Server release cycle that helps customers to do longer-term planning and budgeting. The goal is to provide a major Windows Server release approximately every four years, followed by a release update approximately two years after each major release. Windows Server 2003 R2 was released for manufacturing on December 5, 2005.
Conclusion
Windows Server 2003 R2 is an updated release of the award-winning Windows Server 2003 operating system. It’s takes advantage of the stability and security of a proven code base while extending connectivity and control into new areas. It is designed to be slipstreamed into existing Windows Server 2003 environments without retesting or recertifying existing roles or applications or upgrading to new Client Access Licences, easing administrative burden and simplifying deployment and adoption. Finally, Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition provides a comprehensive server platform that is easy to deploy, manage and use –– and helps businesses.
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