Now that we have covered in general terms the various different editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 we can now look in a little more detail at a feature by feature comparison of the four different editions. This is outlined in the following feature matrix:
TABLE<table><table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="E3B" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-color:#cccccc; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom:20px"><tr bgcolor="#cccccc" style="color:black" valign="top"><th>Feature</th><th>Enterprise</th><th>Datacenter</th><th>Standard</th><th>Itanium</th><th>Web</th><th>Foundation</th></tr><tr><td>Active Directory Certificate Services</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Limited</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>Limited</td></tr> <tr><td>Active Directory Domain Services</td><td> Yes</td><td> Yes</td><td> Yes</td><td> No</td><td> No </td><td>Yes</td></tr> <tr><td>Active Directory Federation Services</td><td> Yes</td><td> Yes </td><td>No </td><td>No </td><td>No </td><td>No</td></tr> <tr><td>Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services</td><td> Yes</td><td> Yes</td><td> Yes</td><td> No</td><td> No</td><td> Yes</td></tr> <tr><td>Active Directory Rights Management Services</td><td> Yes</td><td> Yes</td><td> Yes</td><td> No</td><td> No</td><td> Yes</td></tr> </table>
== Windows Server 2008 R2 Hardware Requirements ==