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== Windows Web Server 2008 ==
Windows Web Server 2008 is essentially a version of Windows Server 2008 designed primarily for the purpose of providing web services. It includes Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 along with associated services such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Telnet. It is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions and supports up to 4 processors. RAM is limited to 4Gb and 32Gb on 32-bit and 64-bit systems respectively.
Windows Web Server 2008 lacks many of the features present in other editions such as clustering, BitLocker drive encryption, multipath I/O, Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS), Removable Storage Management and SAN Management.
== Windows Server 2008 Hardware Requirements ==
Before investing time and resources into downloading and installing Windows Server 2008 the first step is to gain an appreciation of the hardware requirements necessary to effectively run the operating system. The following table provides an overview of Microsoft's recommended minimum hardware:
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<td style="border-color: #cccccc">• Minimum: 1GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4GHz (x64 processor)<br /> • Recommended: 2GHz or faster<br />
<strong>Note:</strong>For Itanium based systems an Intel Itanium 2 processor is required.</td>
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<td style="border-color: #cccccc">• Minimum: 512MB RAM<br /> • Recommended: 2GB RAM or greater<br /> • Maximum (32-bit systems): 4GB (Standard) or 64GB (Enterprise and Datacenter)<br /> • Maximum (64-bit systems): 32GB (Standard) or 2TB (Enterprise, Datacenter and Itanium-Based Systems)</td>
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<td style="border-color: #cccccc">• Minimum: 10GB<br /> • Recommended: 40GB or greater<br />
<strong>Note:</strong> Systems with RAM in excess of 16GB will require greater amounts of disk space to accommodate paging, hibernation, and dump files</td>
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<td style="border-color: #cccccc">• Super VGA or greatre-resolution monitor (800x600)<br /> • Keyboard<br /> • Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device</td>
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As with the specified system requirements for all Windows systems it is best to aim for the ''Recommended'' values rather than the ''Minimum'' values to ensure acceptable levels of performance. For example, whilst it is possible to run Windows Server 2008 in 512Mb of RAM it is unlikely that performance levels will be optimal with such a configuration.