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     Windows Server 2008 R2 includes Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, an improved and
updated version of the IIS 7 that was included in Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008
R2 also includes a new Windows PowerShell provider for IIS to facilitate the automation of
management tasks. This Windows PowerShell provider is available on Server Core installations
of Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as full installations. IIS 7.5 also includes a new File Transfer
Protocol (FTP) server that supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL), and Unicode characters.
Server Core can now include the Microsoft .NET Framework, giving administrators the
ability to manage IIS from Windows PowerShell or IIS Manager. As with many other areas of
R2, IIS 7.5 includes a Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) to simplify troubleshooting and configuration
of IIS. For full details on the new version of IIS, see Chapter 7, “IIS 7.5: Improving the Web
Application Platform.”
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Networking and Access
One of the most exciting new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 is DirectAccess, a new way
to securely connect remote clients to the corporate network. The most common method has
been virtual private networks (VPNs), which often require third-party client software running
on the client, and can be time-consuming to configure and troubleshoot. With Windows
Server 2008 R2 and DirectAccess, if the client is running Windows 7, the remote user has
seamless, always-on remote access to corporate resources that does not compromise the
secure aspects of remote connectivity.
DirectAccess works with the Network Access Protection (NAP) of Windows Server 2008 R2
to ensure that client computers meet your system health requirements, such as having security
updates and antimalware definitions installed, before allowing a DirectAccess connection.
Clients that are connected via DirectAccess can be remotely managed by internal IT staff,
allowing you to ensure that they are kept current with critical updates. DirectAccess is covered
in Chapter 8, “DirectAccess and Network Policy Server.”
Better Together with Windows 7
Many of the enhancements of Windows Server 2008 R2 are independent of the client operating
system being used, but others, such as DirectAccess, only work with Windows 7 clients.
Others, as is the case with the new RDS features, work better with a Windows 7 client, but are
still important improvements even if you’re running Windows Vista or Windows XP.
Some of the things that make Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 work better together
(and the technologies that enable them) are the following:
n Simplified remote connectivity for remote users (DirectAccess)
n Secure remote connectivity, even from public computers (Remote Workplace plus RD
Gateway and RD Session Host)
n Improved branch office performance and security (BranchCache and read-only Distributed
File System Replication [DFS-R])
n More efficient power management where the hardware supports it (Group Policy)
n Virtualized desktops (VDI)
n Improved removable drive security (BitLocker To Go)

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