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Windows Server 2012 R2:What’s New

Mike Resseler

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Mike Resseler is a Product Strategy Specialist for Veeam and is focused on technologies around Hyper-V and System Center. He regularly presents on many occasions at large events such as MMS, TechEd and TechDays.

Mike has been awarded the MVP for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management since 2010. His major hobby is discussing and developing solid disaster recovery scenarios.

He holds certifications in many Microsoft Technologies such as MCITP.

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Agenda

Trends

The Cloud OS

Overview

File Services and Storage

Networking

Clustering

Hyper-V

Windows PowerShell

WDS

Directory Services & Security

Compute

NetworkStorage

Transformational trends

Cloud computing

New social and app patterns

Consumerization of IT

Data explosion

The Cloud OS — Modern platform for the world’s apps

Development Management Identity VirtualizationData

CUSTOMER

SERVICE PROVIDER

WINDOWS AZURE

Transforms the datacenter

Unlocks insightson any data

Empowers people-centric IT

Enables modern apps

1CONSISTENTPLATFORM

Server virtualization

Windows Server 2012 R2 capabilities

Storage Networking

Web and application platform

Access and information protection

Server management and automation

Virtual desktop infrastructure

New levels of performance and cross-platform support

High performance and resiliency at a fraction of the cost

Increased management efficiency for a diverse datacenter

Modern apps built and deployed to scale on-premises and in the cloud

Consistent and flexible user access to corporate resources while protecting data

Great performance, easy to deploy and cost-effective

Hybrid networking with breakthrough levels of flexibility and performance

Windows Server 2012 R2: Overview

File Services & Storage

Users can sync their work data to their devices.

Users can register their devices to be able to sync data when IT enforces conditional access

IT can publish access directly through a reverse proxy, or conditional access can be enforced via device registration through the Web Application Proxy

IT can configure a File Server to provide Work Folder sync shares for each user to store data that syncs to their devices, including integration with Rights Management

IT can selectively wipe the corporate data from Windows 8.1 clients

Devices

Apps & Data

Make corporate data available to users with Work Folders

Reverse Proxy

Web Application Proxy

Active Directory discoverability provides users Work Folders location

File ServicesDomain joined

devices

Access Policy

Active Directory

SMB

Automatic rebalancing of Scale-Out File Server Clients

Improved performance of SMB direct

Improved SMB event messages

VHDX files as shared storage for guest clustering

Hyper-V Live migration over SMB

SMB bandwidth management

Multiple SMB instances on a Scale-Out File Server

SMB 1.0 is an option

DFS Namespace and DFS Replication

PowerShell!

DFS Replication WMI Provider

Database cloning for initial Sync

Database corruption recovery

Cross-file RDC disable

File staging tuning

Preserved File Restoration

Unexpected shutdown database recovery improvements

Membership disabling improvement

iSCSI Target Server

Virtual Disks enhancements

Manageability enhancements

Improved optimization to allow disk-level caching

Scalability limits

Local mount functionality (removed feature)

Storage Spaces

Tiered Storage spaces

Write-back caching

Flexible resiliency options

Data Deduplication

VDI Support Yes, CSV is now supported Optimization of OPEN files Improved optimization performance Improved read/write performance

DHCP

DNS registration enhancements

DNS PTR registration options

Updated Windows PowerShell cmdlets

DNS

Enhanced zone level statistics

Enhanced DNSSEC support

PowerShell enhancements

IPAM

Role based access control

Virtual address space management

Enhanced DHCP Server Management

External database support (SQL support)

Upgrade and migration support

PowerShell!!

Hyper-V Virtual Switch

Hyper-V Virtual Switch extended port ACLs

Hyper-V Network Virtualization coexists with third party forwarding extensions for the Hyper-V Virtual Switch

Traffic bottlenecks to VMs are reduced with vRSS

Network tracing is streamlined and provides more detail

Windows Server Gateway

Virtual Machine software router that allows network traffic routing between virtual and physical networks, including the internet

Clustering

Shared Virtual Hard Disk

Virtual Machine drain on shutdown

Virtual Machine network health detection

CSV improvements

Less dependancy on AD

Quorum improvements

Cluster node health detection

Possibility to turn off Ipsec encryption for inter-node cluster comm’s

Cluster Dashboard

Hyper-V

Shared virtual hard disk Resizing virtual hard disks Storage Quality of Service Live Migrations Virtual Machine generation Integration Services Export Enhanced Session mode Hyper-V Replica Linux Support

Hyper-V

Management Automatic Virtual Machine Activation

RDS

Session Shadowing Online storage deduplication Improved RemoteApp behavior Quick reconnect for Remote Desktop clients Improved compression and bandwidth usage Dynamic display handling RemoteFX virtualized GPU supports DX11.1

PowerShell

Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Save-help Windows PowerShell debugger Additional bugfixes and enhancements

WDS

PowerShell support

Directory Services & Security

Single Sign-On Work from anywhere Multi-factor authentication Multi-factor access control OAuth 2.0 Support Security Group Policy

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