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Learn about the technologies behind Windows Server 2008, and get specifics on how each area can support your organization's needs.

  • Learn about new and improved features of Active Directory, the robust directory service, in Windows Server 2008.

  • Find out how Windows Server 2008 can help you streamline deployment, help ensure highly secure and reliable connectivity, and lower management overhead when working with branch and global offices.

  • Learn how Windows Server maintains and enhances the core infrastructure services required to run your network.

  • Learn how Windows Server 2008– Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing (NLB) have been improved to offer simplified management and more robust functionality.

  • Find out how High Performance Computing (HPC) increases the processing capabilities of Windows Server by allowing multiple systems to perform in an HPC cluster. 

  • Learn how Microsoft Identity and Access solutions help organizations manage user identities and associated access privileges.

  • Learn how Windows Server 2008, with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0), provides a security-enhanced, easy-to-manage platform for developing and reliably hosting Web applications and services.

  • Find out how your can use Presentation virtualization to create virtual sessions in which a single application or a complete desktop offering multiple applications can be run remotely.

  • Learn how Windows Server 2008 can help network administrators to establish and enforce security policies that provide robust protection while being flexible enough to accommodate the connectivity needs of a growing number of internal and external users, device types, system configurations, and network connection types.

  • Find out about new features in Windows Server 2008 that make deploying and managing servers easier.

  • Learn how everything you need to support server virtualization is part of the operating system of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

  • Find out how the management improvements and performance optimizations combine to make the Windows Server 2008 storage subsystem the most advanced to date.

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