INTRODUCING WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 TECHNICAL OVERVIEW
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 CLOUD OS THE BIG PICTURE JOURNEY TO THE CLOUD OS LET’S BEGIN! CHAPTER 2 HYPER-V PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS TO HYPER-V GENERATION 2 VIRTUAL MACHINES AUTOMATIC VIRTUAL MACHINE ACTIVATION REMOTE ACCESS OVER VMBUS CROSS-VERSION LIVE MIGRATION FASTER LIVE MIGRATION ONLINE VHDX RESIZE LIVE EXPORT MORE ROBUST LINUX SUPPORT MANAGING HYPER-V HOSTS RUNNING PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF WINDOWS SERVER HYPER-V REPLICA ENHANCEMENTS ADDITIONAL HYPER-V IMPROVEMENTS LEARN MORE CONTENTS CHAPTER 3 STORAGE PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS TO STORAGE MICROSOFT’S VISION FOR STORAGE STORAGE MANAGEMENT API STORAGE QOS ISCSI TARGET SERVER ENHANCEMENTS SMB 30 ENHANCEMENTS DATA DEDUPLICATION ENHANCEMENTS STORAGE SPACES ENHANCEMENTS STORAGE SPACES IN WINDOWS SERVER WORK FOLDERS CHAPTER 4 FAILOVER CLUSTERING PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS TO FAILOVER CLUSTERING GUEST CLUSTERING USING SHARED VIRTUAL DISKS HOSTING HIGHLY AVAILABLE WORKLOADS SEPARATING VIRTUAL RESOURCES FROM PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE UNDERSTANDING SHARED VIRTUAL DISKS USING SHARED VIRTUAL DISKS CSV AND SOFS ENHANCEMENTS FAILOVER CLUSTERING AND SOFS OPTIMIZED OWNERSHIP OF CSV DISKS INCREASED CSV RESILIENCY IMPROVED CSV CACHE ALLOCATION CSV AND OTHER STORAGE FEATURES CONTENTS CHANGES TO HEARTBEAT THRESHOLD DETECTING THE HEALTH OF VIRTUAL MACHINES VIRTUAL MACHINE DRAIN ON SHUTDOWN DYNAMIC WITNESS ACTIVE DIRECTORY-DETACHED CLUSTERING CHAPTER 5 NETWORKING PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS TO NETWORKING VIRTUAL RSS WINDOWS NIC TEAMING ENHANCEMENTS NIC TEAMING IN WINDOWS SERVER CHOOSING THE RIGHT TEAMING MODE CHOOSING THE RIGHT LOAD-BALANCING MODE IMPROVED NETWORK DIAGNOSTICS NETWORK DIAGNOSTIC CMDLETS IN WINDOWS SERVER IPAM ENHANCEMENTS IPAM IN WINDOWS SERVER HYPER-V NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION ENHANCEMENTS HOW HYPER-V NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION WORKS HYPER-V VIRTUAL SWITCH ENHANCEMENTS HYPER-V VIRTUAL SWITCH IN WINDOWS SERVER CONTENTS CHAPTER 6 ACTIVE DIRECTORY PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS TO ACTIVE DIRECTORY WORKPLACE JOIN IMPLEMENTING WORKPLACE JOIN MULTI-FACTOR ACCESS CONTROL WEB APPLICATION PROXY IMPLEMENTING WEB APPLICATION PROXY CHAPTER 7 GROUP POLICY PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS TO GROUP POLICY GROUP POLICY CACHING GROUP POLICY PREFERENCES AND IPV6 NEW POLICY SETTINGS START SCREEN MULTI-MONITOR DISPLAY APPS SYNC YOUR SETTINGS KERBEROS AUTHENTICATION LOGON SCRIPTS WINDOWS UPDATE WINDOWS RUNTIME APPS MICROSOFT ACCOUNTS AUTOMATIC SIGN-IN WINDOWS SKYDRIVE CONTENTS CHAPTER 8 IIS PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS TO IIS DYNAMIC SITE ACTIVATION IDLE WORKER PROCESS PAGE-OUT CUSTOM IIS LOGGING FIELDS IIS ETW LOGGING CHAPTER 9 REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES PREVIOUS RDS ENHANCEMENTS IMPROVED REMOTEAPP EXPERIENCE DX111 SUPPORT SEAMLESS DISPLAY HANDLING QUICK RECONNECT SESSION SHADOWING VDI AND DATA DEDUPLICATION RESTRICTED ADMIN MODE CHAPTER 10 WINDOWS POWERSHELL PREVIOUS ENHANCEMENTS IN WINDOWS POWERSHELL 30 WINDOWS POWERSHELL DESIRED STATE CONFIGURATION SAVE-HELP YET MORE NEW CMDLETS DISM CMDLETS DHCP SERVER CMDLETS CONTENTS DNS SERVER CMDLETS HARDWARE CERTIFICATION CMDLETS HYPER-V CMDLETS ISCSI TARGET CMDLETS NET TCP/IP CMDLETS NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION CMDLETS NETWORK EVENT PACKET CAPTURE CMDLETS NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION CMDLETS PHYSICAL COMPUTER SYSTEM VIEW (PCSV) CMDLETS SOFTWARE INVENTORY LOGGING CMDLETS START SCREEN CMDLETS WINDOWS DEPLOYMENT SERVICES CMDLETS WINDOWS POWERSHELL WEB ACCESS CMDLETS WINDOWS SEARCH CMDLETS CHAPTER 11 WINDOWS SERVER ESSENTIALS