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Windows Server 2012 What’s new ?. Author. Krzysztof Pytko. Krzysztof.Pytko@outlook.com. Wroclaw 2012. Windows Server 2012 editions. standard. enterprise. datacenter. All components are available in both Windows Server editions.
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Windows Server 2012 What’s new ? Author Krzysztof Pytko Krzysztof.Pytko@outlook.com Wroclaw 2012
Windows Server 2012 editions standard enterprise datacenter All components are available in both Windows Server editions No more Windows Small Business Server editions in the future
Operating System types • Windows Server GUI • Windows Server core Option to switch between GUI, non-GUI version Preferred installation type: Windows Server core Might suggest GUI remove in the future Windows releases
New Graphical Interface No classic START button Modern UI (former Metro UI)
New way of server management • New Server Manager • PowerShell v3.0 • WinRM 3.0 • Supported Windows versions in the new Server Manager: • Windows Server 2008 (required Windows Management Framework 3.0) • Windows Server 2008R2(required Windows Management Framework 3.0) • Windows Server 2012
New Server Manager features • Remote role/feature installation • Remote server management • Closing Server Manager does not break role/feature installation • All tasks are translated to PowerShell v3.0 code • PowerShell v3.0 code run in the background
Improved server roles DHCP IPAM Volume Activation Services DirectAccess IIS 8.0 File Server Active Directory: Directory Services Failover Cluster PowerShell v3.0 Hyper-V 3.0 Branch Cache
DHCP • DHCP Failover configuration for scopes • Failover scopes replication • Split scope wizard
IPAM Combination of Domain Controller DNS server DHCP server Network Policy Server (NPS)
File Server Available only on Windows Server 2012 no EFS support no boot/system volume support New file system ReFS auto correct data no AD database support no conversion from NTFS
File Server New file permissions type Dynamic Access Control in Active Directory Administrative Center • Enhancement for NTFS classic permissions • Requires new way of thinking • Applied over File Server Resource Manager
Volume Activation Services KMS Support for existing KMS server(s) VAMT Support for VAMT 3.0 Active Directory Based Activation Activation over AD
DirectAccess Single NIC No internal PKI required Kerberos PROXY Full Windows PowerShell support Support for multiple domains
Failover Cluster Available also in Windows Standard edition Single NIC, no heartbeat card required Simple cluster wizard Supported by RODC Up to 64 nodes Up to 4000 Virtual machines Single node can host to 1024 Virtual Machines Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) Disk pooling
Branch Cache Integrated with File Server No server certificate required No limit for number of offices Single GPO for each office Automatic computer configuration More than one hosted cache server Cache encrypted by default Bandwidth savings PowerShell and WMI for management
Hyper-V 3.0 veeam support Built-in NIC teaming Hyper-V replica Support for 320 cores and 4TB of RAM on host server Live migration Support for 64 vCPU and 1TB of RAM for guest server Support for popular Linux editions Support for FreeBSD
PowerShell 3.0 Online help update Map network drives Server Manager and ADAC creates PowerShell code PowerShell Web Access Scheduled jobs A lot of new cmd-lets
Active Directory: Directory Services No DCPROMO command No support for Windows 2000 Domain Controllers Offline domain join (djoin.exe) Remote Domain Controller promotion No manual ADPREP required Actions based on PowerShell
Active Directory: Directory Services New Active Directory Recycle Bin Fine-Grained Password Policy PowerShell commands history in ADAC
Active Directory: Directory Services New Server Manager RSAT for Windows 8 Remote Domain Controller promotion Server roles separation
Active Directory: Directory Services DC cloning from VHD DC restore from snapshot RID pool reuse (sidCompatibilityVersion = 1) Extended RID pool (2^31) AD/FRS replication status in GPMC Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) msDS-GroupManagedServiceAccount
Thank you Questions ?