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Posted Windows Servers, SAN & NAS Storage, Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Active Directory on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006.
The new Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system upgrade is a bundle of several separate feature-packs with Windows Server 2003 SP1. This is supposed to mean that W2k3 R2 is compatible with everything that ran correctly on the SP1 version of the OS. However, a quick round of testing is in order for any operations that have had problems caused by any post-SP1 security updates. Many security updates released since SP1 was released are already bundled into R2.
As for real features added to R2: Microsoft’s hype-machine-generated list of features added to R2 highlights several technologies, including the .NET 2.0 libraries and upgraded identity managment (Active Directory Federation Services), as “new”. Nonetheless, it looks like R2 does have some hype-worthy features that should have been better marketed. These features include the new WAN communication algorithms, for better network synchronization with less bandwidth use, and more granular storage management & SAN configuration tools.
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