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New Features in Window Server 8

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windows_server_1I was reading and came across an article named “10 Killer Features in Windows Server 8 for IT Pros”

The article does a good job listing out some of the high level features which are new to Windows Server 8 or improved from Windows Server 2008 R2.

For me, my top 3 features which I think are good are:

NIC Teaming – In the past you relied on hardware vendors to support NIC teaming. Now in Windows Server 8, we can have two separate NIC by different vendors be teamed together to provide redundancy and aggregate bandwidth.

  • AD Recycle Bin – Windows Server 2008 R2 first had the recycle bin, but you had to access it through scripting. Now we have a GUI to restore items.
  • Live Migration – Looks like Microsoft is putting Live Migration right into the native Hyper-V and won’t require Virtual Machine Manager. This something we have had for a while in VMWare with Live Motion and VMM 2008 R2 w/SP1 but now we have it for free native to Windows Server 8.

For the full list, check out the post at PC Magazine.

Link to – “10 Killer Features in Windows Server 8 for IT Pros”

Windows Server 8–Hyper-V

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At the Worldwide Partner conference in Los Angeles earlier this month, Microsoft showed off some new Hyper-V features in what is codenamed Windows Server 8.

The Virtualization Team Blog posted and some information on their blog. The mark you want to look at is around the 37 minute mark. There is slide that starts it off marked Sneak Peak, Windows Server “8”

We will be seeing more information about Windows 8 and hopefully Windows Server 8 in the next few weeks when the Windows Build conference happens in Anaheim, CA.

Me being the deployment guy, I am hoping they show off any new ways to deploy Windows 8.