Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 is one of Microsoft Windows' server lines of operating

systems. It was known as Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" until May 16,
2007, when Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates announced its official title: Windows
Server® 2008 .It was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and officially
released on February 27, 2008, it is the successor to Windows Server 2003,
released nearly five years earlier. A second release, named Windows Server 2008
R2, was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009.Like Windows Vista and
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 is built on Windows NT 6.x.

It enables any organization to rapidly create Web pages, Web sites, Web
applications, and Web services with the newly re-architected IIS 7.0, ASP.Net, and
MS .Net Framework.

No. Edition

1 Windows Web Server® 2008.

2 Windows Server® 2008, Standard.
3 Windows Server® 2008, Enterprise.
4 Windows Server® 2008, Datacenter.
5 Windows Server® 2008, Standard without Hyper-V.
6 Windows Server® 2008, Enterprise without Hyper-V.
7 Windows Server® 2008, Datacenter without Hyper-V.
8 Windows Server® 2008, For Itanium-Based Systems.
9 Windows HPC Server® 2008.

Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 is available with nine editions.

Configuration Requirements:

➢ System Requirements.

1. Processor: Minimum 1GHz (32 bits) or 1.4GHz (64 bits). Recommended

2GHz or faster.
 2. RAM: Minimum 512MB. Recommended 2GB or greater.

3. Available Disk Space: Minimum 10GB. Recommended 40GB.

➢ Install Windows Server® 2008.

1. Change Server name.

2. Change TCP/IP Settings.

➢ Install Windows Server® 2008 Server Core.

1. Change Server name.

2. Change TCP/IP Settings.

➢ Install Windows Server® 2008 from WDS.

Salient Features of Windows Server 2008:

It delivers an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications

and improves security with consolidated identity management features. It also
provides an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications
and large-scale virtualization on small and large servers. Improve availability with
clustering and dynamic hardware partitioning capabilities

Some salient features are:

1. Identity and Access.

2. Security and Policy Enforcement.

3. Presentation Virtualization with Terminal Services.

4. Web Technology – Internet Information Services 7.0.

5. Better Together with Windows Vista.

6. Server Management.

7. Server Core.

8. Virtualization and consolidation.

9. Higher Availability.

Advantages: Windows Server 2008 is designed to help organizations manage user

identities and associated access privileges and to help businesses boost
productivity, reduce IT costs, and eliminate the complexity of identity and access
management. Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista are deployed together. The
combined client-server infrastructure provides great advantages, includes:

1. More efficient management.

2. Greater availability.

3. Faster communication.

Due to the above advantages Windows Server 2008 is the most advanced Windows
Server operating system yet, designed to power the next generation of networks,
applications, and Web services. New Web tools, virtualization technologies, security
enhancements, and management utilities help save time, reduce costs, and provide
a solid foundation for your information technology (IT) infrastructure. It may be the
last 32 bits Operating System for Server platform.