Windows Server 2008 R2 offers a terrific Windows Reliability and Performance monitoring tool. Within minutes, you can have a comprehensive and graphical view of your server.

Windows Server 2008 “was one of the most successful product launches in Microsoft history,” said Vikram Ghosh, vice president of business development at Chef, who worked for Microsoft’s ...

Not so much an update as a complete revamp of the Windows server platform, Windows Server 2008 R2 has a lot of interesting new functionality, but requires careful planning before deploying.

Three creative ways to evaluate Windows Server 2008 R2 Analysis Oct 11, 2009 2 mins Microsoft ...

A computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 stops responding randomly. Applications or services that are running on the computer stop working correctly.

Windows Server 2008 servers will no longer boot if prerequisites aren't installed before applying the out-of-band KB4539602 update released by Microsoft on February 7 to patch a wallpaper bug.

Instead, they'll have to roll back Windows Server 2008 SP2 to the previous month's patch state if a problem can't be resolved. Microsoft first began this monthly rollup patch model with Windows 10.

In Windows Server 2008, Microsoft provides new granular controls, making auditing more useful and manageable. Here’s a look at how to configure basic auditing in Server 2008, highlighting the ...

Users of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1), which will reach its end-of-support phase in a mere three months, can now take advantage of Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection's (ATP) ...

To work around these limits, Windows Server 2008 introduces the Terminal Services (TS) Gateway role, which acts as a proxy server between the Internet and your internal network. As illustrated, the ...