Windows Server 2008 and Terminal Services

Windows Server 2008 brings major improvements to Terminal Services. Terminal Services is now compatible with protocol in Remote Desktop 6.0 Remote Desktop Protocol 6.0. The most notable improvement is the ability to share an application via a desktop connection remotely, instead of the entire desktop. This feature is called Terminal Services Remote Programs. Other novelties include Terminal Services Gateway Terminal Services (Terminal Services Gateway) and web access to Terminal Services (Terminal Services Web Access - complete web interface).

Using Terminal Services Gateway, authorized computers can connect securely to a Terminal Server or a remote desktop from the Internet through the use of remote desktop via HTTPS without recourse to the drafting Screening of a VPN connection. There is no need to open additional ports on the firewall for RDP is encapsulated in HTTPS access. Terminal Services Web Access enables administrators to provide access to Terminal Services sessions via a web interface.

TS Web Access comes with an editable Webpart for IIS and SharePoint, which displays the available applications and connections to the user. Using TS Gateway and TS Remote Programs, the complete access performed via HTTP (S) and the remote applications appear transparent manner to the user as if they were used locally.

Several applications can be executed in the same session which does not need additional licenses per user. Terminal Services Easy Print does not require the installation of printer drivers on the server by the administrator, but securing the redirection and availability of all user interfaces for printers that allows use in remote sessions.

The Terminal Services sessions are created in parallel and not in series - the new session model can initiate 4 sessions in parallel, or more if the server has more than 4 processors.

Windows PowerShell

Windows Server 2008 is the first operating system that integrates Windows PowerShell, the new extensible shell command line from Microsoft that includes features of scripting technology (task-based scripting technology). PowerShell is based on object-oriented programming and version 2.0 of Microsoft. NET, and includes over 120 system administration tools with a naming convention and syntax consistent, and integrated capability to operate with data management standards such as the Windows registry, certificate stores, or Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). The PowerShell scripting language designed specifically for government IT, and can be used in place of cmd.exe and Windows Script Host.

Self-healing NTFS

In earlier versions of Windows, if the operating system detects a corruption in the file system to an NTFS volume, it marks the volume as “unfit” to correct errors on the volume, it was be disconnected. With the Auto-healing NTFS, an NTFS repair process is initiated in the background and performs a targeted repair of damaged structures, leaving only the damaged files or folders as offline and not the entire volume necessitated the discontinuation of server.

Hyper-V

Hyper-V is a ‘hypervisor virtual system’, forming a central part of virtualization strategy at Microsoft. It allows servers to virtualized layer Kernel operating system. It can be seen as partitioning a single physical server into several smaller sets of computers. Hyper-V will include the ability to operate as a host hypervisor virtualization Xen, enabling operating systems with the function to be enabled Xen virtualized. This feature will not initially integrated into Windows Server 2008, but will be made available three months after the worldwide release of Windows Server 2008. It will only be available on 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008.

Windows System Resource Manager

Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) is integrated into Windows Server 2008. It offers the possibility to manage system resources and can be used to control how many resources a process or user is able to use, based on business priorities. Process Matching Criteria, whose name is explicit (literally: Criterion reference process) model or process owner, enforce restrictions on use of resources by a process that meets the criteria. CPU time, bandwidth, number of processors and memory allocation to a process can be restricted. Restrictions may be imposed only on certain dates and times.

Manager Servers

Server Manager is a new management tool for Windows Server 2008. It is a combination of features and Manage Your Server Wizard Configuring Security in Windows Server 2003. Server Manager (Server Manager) is an improvement of the dialog Configure my server that runs by default at startup of Windows Server 2003 machines. However, it is not only a starting point for setting up a new role on the server, but a tool that gathers all operations that an administrator would perform on the server, such as a method of generating remote deployment, add more roles to a server, etc.. Server Manager is in the form of a consolidated set of tools as a portal and contains status of each role. It is not currently possible to use Server Manager remotely, but a client console is provided.

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