Windows Remote Management Service is Microsoft’s implementation of the new Web Services for Management protocol and allows organizations to use a secure and firewall-friendly remote management protocol.
Web Services for Management include the following benefits:
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Allows organization to use a secure and firewall friendly remote management protocol.
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Enables cross-firewall remote management of servers using WMI via HTTP and SOAP.
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Enables management of remote servers when the operating system is not running in a pre-boot and post-crash scenario such as a change boot order or power-cycle.
Hardware management makes Window Server aware of IPMI instrumentation in the motherboard with a new driver in the following scenarios:
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Events raised in the hardware system event log are also displayed in he Windows event log.
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Sensor values and probes can be read and set through a new WMI provider such as status of fan speed and temperature.
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Allows IPMI to be accessible to all management tools and scripts that use WMI.
Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) is a source-compatibility subsystem for compiling and running custom UNIX-based applications on a computer running a Windows server-class operating system. Administrators can perfect their applications in SUA with little or no change to their original source code.
Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications provides an operating system for POSIX processes. SUA, along with its package of support utilities (such as shells and a Telnet client) available for download on the Microsoft Beta website, provides a complete UNIX environment. The download package includes a comprehensive set of scripting utilities and a software development kit (SDK) designed to fully support the development capabilities of SUA while providing a complete UNIX-based application development experience.
SUA also supports case-sensitive file names, job control, compilation tools, and the use of over 300 UNIX commands, utilities, and shell scripts. Because the subsystem installs separately from the Windows kernel, it offers true UNIX functionality without any emulation.
New features in this release include:
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