{"id":476,"date":"2009-03-04T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/03\/04\/win-server-2008-r2-polishes-up-an-already-sleek-server-os.aspx"},"modified":"2009-03-04T18:43:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:43:45","slug":"win-server-2008-r2-polishes-up-an-already-sleek-server-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Win Server 2008 R2 polishes up an already sleek server OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with Windows Server 2008 since pre-release betas hit the TechNet download world. Initially, my focus was work-oriented, getting my job done. I had to deploy a few servers, and I found the overall structure to be the same as 2003, so I wasn&#8217;t overly frustrated looking for new ways to do old things (like adding a simple user in Active Directory). Slowly, however, I became aware of some really nice enhancements within the latest Windows Server OS.<\/p>\n<p>For example, there&#8217;s Server Core. It has a command-line interface, a lighter footprint, and a smaller attack surface (making it a welcome security choice). It has read-only domain controllers, not unlike the NT 4.0 BDC (Backup Domain Controller) concept, but with a solid purpose of remote branch office domain controller deployment and without the security risk that a writable domain controller poses.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/enterprisewindows\/archives\/2009\/03\/win_server_2008.html\" href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/enterprisewindows\/archives\/2009\/03\/win_server_2008.html\">http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/enterprisewindows\/archives\/2009\/03\/win_server_2008.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with Windows Server 2008 since pre-release betas hit the TechNet download world. Initially, my focus was work-oriented, getting my job done. I had to deploy a few servers, and I found the overall structure to be the same as 2003, so I wasn&#8217;t overly frustrated looking for new ways to do old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}