Windows Server 2008 and Vista combine to be more powerful

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are inherently part of a single development project, so they share many new technologies, such as network, storage, security, and management. Although the development of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is split into separate versions with different release cycles, many enhancements are applied to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. When your organization deploys both operating systems, you can see that the combined client-server infrastructure provides a more significant advantage.

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IT professionals who manage the Windows vista/windows Server 2008 Infrastructure will notice a number of improvements in how their environments are managed and controlled.

Maintenance operations are greatly simplified by using a single mode to manage updates and service packs across clients and servers.

. Client computers can monitor specific events and forward to Windows Server 2008 for centralized monitoring and reporting.

. Windows Deployment Services provides faster and more reliable operating system deployments.

. The network access Protection feature on Windows Server 2008 ensures that Windows Vista clients that are connected to the network comply with security policy and, if not, limit its access to network resources.

Improvements to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 greatly improve the reliability, scalability, and overall responsiveness of your infrastructure.

. Clients can render their print jobs locally before they are sent to the print server, which reduces server load and improves availability.

. server resources are cached locally, so these resources are available even if there is a problem with the server, and the replicas are automatically updated after the client and server reconnect.

Applications or scripts that need to run on both the client and the server can use the transactional file System to reduce the risk of errors during file and registry operations, and roll back to a known normal state when a failure or cancel operation occurs.

. You can create policies to ensure better quality of service for those applications or services that require priority use of network bandwidth between the client and server.

Windows Vista client connectivity to a network that deploys Windows Server 2008 can significantly improve communication speed and reliability.

When you search Windows Server 2008 servers from Windows Vista clients, you can use both the enhanced indexing and caching techniques to significantly improve the performance of your entire enterprise.

. Native IPV6 support for creating a more scalable and reliable network across all client and server services, while an overridden TCP/IP stack makes network traffic faster and more efficient.

The new server Information Block 2.0 protocol provides many communication enhancements, improves performance when connecting to a file share over a high latency link, and improves security by using mutual authentication and message signing.

. There are many improvements in Windows Server 2008 's Terminal Services, including Windows Vista clients that provide remote access to internal resources through an HTTP gateway, and seamless remote applications that are similar to running on the local desktop.