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industry security technologies, including encryption, certificates, and authentication. Using
these technologies allows organizations to create reliable information protection solutions.
BitLocker BitLocker is a tool that allows you to encrypt the hard drives of your computer.
By encrypting the hard drives, you can provide enhanced protection against data theft or
unauthorized exposure of your computers or removable drives that are lost or stolen.
BranchCache BranchCache allows data from files and web servers on a wide area net-
work (WAN) to be cached on computers at a local branch office. By using BranchCache,
you can improve application response times while also reducing WAN traffic. Cached data
can be either distributed across peer client computers (distributed cache mode) or centrally
hosted on a server (hosted cache mode). BranchCache is included with Windows Server
2012 R2 and Windows 8.
In this topic, I will refer to Windows 8 , which includes both Windows 8 and
Windows 8.1. This is also true for Windows Server 2008 . It will be used for
both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. If, for some rea-
son, both versions of Server 2008 did not cover an item, I will actually say
2008 R2.
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is an Internet standard that
allows organizations to reduce the administrative overhead of configuring hosts on a TCP/
IP-based network. Some of the new features are DHCP failover, policy-based assignment,
and the ability to use Windows PowerShell for DHCP Server.
DNS Domain Name System (DNS) services are used in TCP/IP networks. DNS will con-
vert a computer name or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to an IP address. DNS also
has the ability to do a reverse lookup and convert an IP address to a computer name. DNS
allows you to locate computers and services through user-friendly names.
Failover Clustering Failover Clustering gives an organization the ability to provide high
availability and scalability to networked servers. Failover clusters can include file share
storage for server applications, such as Hyper-V and Microsoft SQL Server, and those that
run on physical servers or virtual machines.
File Server Resource Manager File Server Resource Manager is a set of tools that allows
administrators to manage and control the amount and type of data stored on the organiza-
tion's servers. By using File Server Resource Manager, administrators have the ability to set
up file management tasks, use quota management, get detailed reports, set up a file classifi-
cation infrastructure, and configure file-screening management.
Hyper-V Hyper-V is one of the most changed features in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Microsoft's new slogan is “Windows Server 2012 R2, built from the cloud up,” and this
has a lot to do with Hyper-V. It allows an organization to consolidate servers by creating
and managing a virtualized computing environment. It does this by using virtualization
technology that is built into Windows Server 2012 R2.