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Hosting Webcast Series: Windows Server 2008 - Technical Features and Benefits

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Overview This webcast presents a high level overview of Windows Server 2008, the next generation server operating system for the hosting industry. With the fantastic new features such as dramatic improvements in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, Powershell, Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Hyper-V (Windows Virtualization) and Terminal Services, Windows Server 2008 is not only the best server OS Microsoft has ever shipped it is Hosting Ready out of the box!

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft Tips
Live Date	27th March 2008 00:00 GMT
Format	Webcast
Topics	Servers, Windows Server 2008, Directory Services

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