Server Steers The Right Way

For basic terminal services or server consolidation needs, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is worth upgrading to immediately. All other Improvements, including network access control are nice value-adds, but are no reason, in and of themselves, to make a fast leap to Server 2008. Terminal Services is not new to the Windows Server line, but TS 2008 is unrecognizable compared with previous editions. New features -- such as the ability to run individual applications via a seamless TS window, instead of having to launch an ugly TS session in order to execute an application -- make TS 2008 much more Citrix-like than before. PowerShell is Redmond's answer to the request by many power administrators for unified scripting and Unix shell-like management of Windows Servers. Server Core thins out the base operating system build for Server 2008 by eliminating Internet Explorer, 35 services, the .Net framework, and even the Windows shell itself.