Chapter 3. Operations Manager 2007 R2 and Windows Server 2008

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Installing Operations Manager 2007 R2

• Upgrading to Operations Manager 2007 R2

• Additional Windows 2008 Considerations

Windows Server 2008 brings a number of new features to the Microsoft server platform. Server 2008 includes enhancements to Active Directory—adding the ability to define password requirements on a more granular level (fine-grained password policies), restart domain services, and provide enhanced security through deploying read-only domain controllers. The introduction of Server Core provides a minimal footprint version of the Windows operating system that is more secure and requires fewer outages to apply patches. Server 2008 also adds improved ...

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