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Title: R2 polishes Win Server 2003

Author: Brooks, Jason Article Type: Review
Source: eWeek, v23 n2 p33(2) Publication Date: Jan 9, 2006
  ISSN: 1530-6283
  Illustrations: Screen Layouts
URL of Publication: http://www.eweek.com

Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 Release 2 is a worthy upgrade, especially for companies that run the operating system in heterogeneous environments or in remote-office settings. The product is targeted at branch offices and smaller sites that share data with larger sites, both in backup and collaboration. In relation to this, R2 comes with an enhanced Distributed File System (DFS), which has a rewritten file replication engine built around the Remote Differential Compression (RDC) technology. When RDC synchronizes files, the differences among the files are only what is transmitted, and not the full files themselves. This translates to savings in network time and use, especially when only small changes are necessary such as changing a few lines of text in a large document. R2 also lets users set up DFS replication operations for particular days and hours. Another new feature is a management component for all file server administration operations. A DFS console plug-in is also included. Another plug-in users will find useful is File Server Resource Management, which offers tools for managing and applying quotas, screening types of files, and report scheduling and generation on file server usage. Another enhancement to R2 is better interoperability with Unix and Linux systems.

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