Introduction

Welcome to Windows Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition. Over the years, I’ve written about many different server technologies and products, but the one product I like writing about the most is Windows Server. From top to bottom, Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (R2) is substantially different from earlier releases of Windows Server. For starters, many of the core components of Windows Server 2008 R2 are built off the same code base as Windows 7 rather than Windows Vista. This means that you can apply much of what you know about Windows 7 to Windows Server 2008 R2. That’s good news, but you still need to learn how Windows Server 2008 R2 is different from previous releases of Windows Server, and while some of ...

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