Windows Server 2012 R2 standard

Features

► Group policy

Improve startup times on machines that are disconnected from the company network with the new “Policy Cache” setting. It allows domain-joined machines to store a copy of the group policy settings on the client machine and, depending on the speed of access to the domain controller, use those at startup time instead of waiting for the policy settings to download.

► Client Full System Restore

Now supported by Windows Deployment Services (WDS).

► Automated Tiering

Storage Spaces stores the most frequently accessed files on the fastest physical media.

► IP Address Management (IPAM)

Get fine-grained control over which users can view or change configurations for DHCP reservations, scopes, IP address blocks, DNS resource records, etc. Additionally, IPAM can integrate with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 to have a coordinated IP policy across both physical and virtual environments.

► Faster VM deployment (approximately half the time)

The Legacy Network Adapter device is no longer required (or even supported) by Generation 2 virtual machines and the SCSI controller performs much better than the legacy IDE controller in the previous generation of virtual machines.

Windows Server 2012 Requirements :