OS huge number of new innovations, which is designed to ensure that Windows Server 2008 place at the top of Olympus server systems.
The opportunity to combine server, a more efficient management of iron, remote setting, without the use of a graphical user interface and full processing of the security model system represent more than weighty arguments for the fact that to move to the new OS.
Below are the 10 best innovations, which we have chosen together with a representative of Microsoft Russinovichem Mark (Mark Russinovich).

10. Samovosstanavlivayuschiesya NTFS file system.

Starting from the time of DOS, the file system errors requiring disconnection volume to rectify them. In Windows Server 2008 Special service operating in the background, detects and eliminates file system errors, thereby preventing the probability of failure in the server.
Russinovichu give the floor: "Well, imagine that the figures were found damaged. If an application which will attempt to gain access to the damaged files, it simply will not have access. Once errors will be corrected - access will be restored. In this way you will not have to restart the server for low-level testing. "

9. Concurrent creating sessions.
For Server 2008 priority is the creation of Sessions for several operations. If you have a terminal server or on your home computer loginyatsya more than one user at the same time - this is called seances. I identification Session Initialization took quite a long time for large terminal servers.
The new model sessions in the Server 2008 allows parallel work at least 4 - m seance, and it will be more efficient if the server 4 - D processor.

8. "Clean" stop services and applications.
One of the historical problems is the Windows shutdown procedure is imperfect. In XP when you turn off the computer system runs 20 - second timer. Since the beginning of the countdown, all applications received signal to the work. After the expiry time yet completed the process of working force, even if at that time-to-disk recording large volumes of data.
In Windows Server 2008 computer will be shut down only after all applications will complete their work.

7. Transaction Manager kernel.
This formulation may be one of the most useful if it did not desist in the development process. It would avoid the mistakes registry and the file system injuries, which occur at a time when several processes request access to the same resource.
6. The Network File System SMB2.
A long, long time, it was acceptable SMB network file system for Windows. This continued until it was in accordance with standards.
So, SMB2 finally see the light. Now various media files weigh very much needed and the server file system that would allow rapid processing of such amounts of information.
Russinovich believes that the new file system will be one of the most rapid current. In addition, he responded that the media server's performance increased by 300-400%, compared with Windows Server 2003. Moreover, in the future might increase speed and at 4000%.

5. Randromizatsiya downloads address space. (Address Space Load Randomization)
Perhaps it is one of the most controversial innovations, particularly since the debut of Vista.
Details describe his work is meaningless if briefly - but now everyone is a systematic process of the 256 randomly selected sectors in memory, as well as 16 megabytes of randomly selected address space. In theory, this will help make the various viruses and spyware software is not effective.

4. Classification errors equipment.

Yes, this is true. Microsoft really standardize errors. In this way it would be possible to obtain a comprehensive response to the cause of the error.
As the representative of Microsoft: "From the fact that at this moment there is no classification of mistakes, many problems arise when writing programs. Because of this difficult to take into account the possible errors and ways to address them. Because of this, some pieces of software code produced very cumbersome. "

3. Virtualization server. (Windows Server Virtualization)
Just a long time, it was hard to find a strong and effective program virtualization. Now such is rightly called Vmware, and apparently this title will be several more years.
But Microsoft will introduce its system virtualization, which is expected to be not only not worse, but even better Vmware. Information tangent that is not enough that would make any conclusions.

2. PowerShell
Groovy new command line, which empowers the administration.
Ian McDonald said: "If I want to - I can use PowerShell as the default shell, or use it as needed. Everything depends on my preference. "

This is precisely what Microsoft will take far more than competitors.
One of the reasons why Windows has not extended to servers, it is that it is Windows.
Administrators, with good law, asked: what the server needs the support of 32 bit color and DirectX, as well as ADO and OLE, if it would never run custom applications? Why Windows drags around its windows, though for what purpose is?
Starting with Windows Server 2008 graphical interface is not required. You will be free to choose - to work from the command line, as in FreeBSD or use graphical regime.
Among other things, the kernel will be made substantial changes to run on a single machine several different services, and easily managed from the command line.