Preface
Technology is ever-changing. New pieces of technology arrive on our doorsteps almost daily, often replacing old or outdated items. The race is always on for the fastest processors, the highest pixel counts, the safest cars, and smartphones with screens as big as my head. You get the idea. This is as true in the Microsoft-driven data center as it is in consumer electronics. With every new version of the Windows operating system, both client and server, we see parts and pieces come and go. Out with the old, in with the new, as they say. To give you some examples, it wasn't very many years ago that we were talking about things such as IPv6, Network Access Protection (NAP), and Windows Vista as the latest and greatest things since sliced ...
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