Windows Server 2012

What’s new ?Author Krzysztof Pytko

Wroclaw 2012

Krzysztof.Pytko@outlook.com

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

Option to switch between GUI,

non-GUI version

Operating System types

• Windows Server GUI• Windows Server core

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

Active Directory: Directory Services

DHCP IPAM

Hyper-V 3.0PowerShell v3.0

File Server

DirectAccess

Branch Cache

IIS 8.0

Volume Activation Services

Failover Cluster

DHCP

• DHCP Failover configuration for scopes

• Failover scopes replication

• Split scope wizard

IPAM

Combination of

DNS server DHCP server

Network Policy Server (NPS)

Domain Controller

File Server

New file system ReFS

no boot/system

volume support

no EFS support

no AD database support

auto correctdata

no conversion from NTFS

Available only on Windows Server

2012

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

Activation over AD

Support for existing KMS

server(s)

Volume Activation Services

KMS

Support for VAMT 3.0

VAMT

Active Directory Based Activation

DirectAccess

No internal PKI required

Full Windows PowerShell support

Kerberos PROXYSingle NIC

Support for multiple domains

Failover Cluster

Single NIC, no

heartbeat card

required

Disk pooling

Simple cluster wizard

Available also in Windows Standard edition

Up to 64 nodes

Up to 4000 Virtual

machines

Single node can host to

1024 Virtual Machines

Cluster-Aware

Updating (CAU)

Supported by RODC

Branch Cache

Integrated with File Server

Automatic computer configuration

No limit for number of offices

Single GPO for each office

Bandwidth savings

Cache encrypted by default

PowerShell and WMI for management

No server certificate required

More than one hosted cache server

Hyper-V 3.0

veeam support

Support for 320 cores and 4TB of RAM on host server

Support for 64 vCPU and 1TB of RAM for guest server

Built-in NIC teaming Hyper-V replica

Live migration

Support for popular Linux editions

Support for FreeBSD

PowerShell 3.0

Online help update

Server Manager and ADAC creates PowerShell code

PowerShell Web Access Scheduled jobs

Map network drives

A lot of new cmd-lets

Active Directory: Directory Services

Actions based on PowerShell

Remote Domain Controller promotion

No DCPROMO command

Offline domain join (djoin.exe)

No manual ADPREP required

No support forWindows 2000

Domain Controllers

Active Directory: Directory Services

Active Directory Recycle Bin

New

Fine-Grained Password Policy

PowerShell commands history in ADAC

Active Directory: Directory Services

New Server Manager

RSAT for Windows 8

RemoteDomain Controller

promotion

Server rolesseparation

Active Directory: Directory Services

DC cloning from VHD DC restore from snapshot

AD/FRS replication status in GPMC

Extended RID pool (2^31)RID pool reuse

(sidCompatibilityVersion = 1)

Group Managed Service Account(gMSA)

msDS-GroupManagedServiceAccount

Thank you

Questions ?