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DPI settings can be changed by logging on and off, without needing to restart. Over time, several technologies have been incorporated into subsequent versions of Windows to improve the performance of the operating system on traditional hard disk drives HDD with rotating platters.

Since Solid state drives SSD differ from mechanical HDDs in some key areas no moving parts, write amplification , limited number of erase cycles allowed for reliable operation , it is beneficial to disable certain optimizations and add others, specifically for SSDs.

Windows 7 incorporates many engineering changes to reduce the frequency of writes and flushes, which benefit SSDs in particular since each write operation wears the flash memory.

Windows 7 also makes use of the TRIM command. If supported by the SSD not implemented on early devices , this optimizes when erase cycles are performed, reducing the need to erase blocks before each write and increasing write performance. Several tools and techniques that were implemented in the past to reduce the impact of the rotational latency of traditional HDDs, most notably disk defragmentation , SuperFetch , ReadyBoost , and application launch prefetching , involve reorganizing rewriting the data on the platters.

Since SSDs have no moving platters, this reorganization has no advantages, and may instead shorten the life of the solid state memory. Finally, partitions made with Windows 7’s partition-creating tools are created with the SSD’s alignment needs in mind, avoiding unwanted systematic write amplification.

By default, a computer’s disk is partitioned into two partitions : one of limited size for booting , BitLocker and running the Windows Recovery Environment and the second with the operating system and user files. Windows 7 has also seen improvements to the Safely Remove Hardware menu, including the ability to eject just one camera card at the same time from a single hub and retain the ports for future use without reboot; and the labels of removable media are now also listed, rather than just the drive letter.

BitLocker brings encryption support to removable disks such as USB drives. Such devices can be protected by a passphrase, a recovery key, or be automatically unlocked on a computer. The more lengthy boot times on the remainder of the machines are mainly due to some services or programs that are loaded but are not required when the system is first started. Microsoft’s Mike Fortin, a distinguished engineer on the Windows team, noted in August that Microsoft has set aside a team to work solely on the issue, and that team aims to “significantly increase the number of systems that experience very good boot times”.

They “focused very hard on increasing parallelism of driver initialization”. Also, Microsoft aims to “dramatically reduce” the number of system services, along with their demands on processors, storage, and memory. The bit versions of Windows 7 and Server R2 introduce a user-mode scheduling framework.

While for most applications this is sufficient, applications with large concurrent threading requirements, such as a database server , can benefit from having a thread scheduler in-process. This is because the kernel no longer needs to be involved in context switches between threads, and it obviates the need for a thread pool mechanism, as threads can be created and destroyed much more quickly when no kernel context switches are required.

Prior to Windows 7, Windows used a one-to-one user thread to kernel-thread relationship. With Windows 7’s user-mode scheduling, a program may configure one or more kernel threads as a scheduler supplied by a programming language library one per logical processor desired and then create a user-mode thread pool from which these UMS can draw.

The kernel maintains a list of outstanding system calls which allows the UMS to continue running without blocking the kernel thread. This configuration can be used as either many-to-one or many-to-many. There are several benefits to a user mode scheduler. Context switching in User Mode can be faster. UMS also introduces cooperative multitasking. Having customizable scheduler also gives more control over thread execution. Windows Media Center in Windows 7 has retained much of the design and feel of its predecessor, but with a variety of user interface shortcuts and browsing capabilities.

Some notable enhancements in Windows 7 Media Center include a new mini guide, a new scrub bar, the option to color code the guide by show type, and internet content that is more tightly integrated with regular TV via the guide. When browsing the media library, items that don’t have album art are shown in a range of foreground and background color combinations instead of using white text on a blue background. When the left or right remote control buttons are held down to browse the library quickly, a two-letter prefix of the current album name is prominently shown as a visual aid.

The Picture Library includes new slideshow capabilities, and individual pictures can be rated. Also, while browsing a media library, a new column appears at the top named “Shared. A gadget for Windows Media Center is also included. Transcoding encoding support is not exposed through any built-in Windows application but codecs are included as Media Foundation Transforms MFTs. For playback of various media formats, Windows 7 also introduces an H.

Windows Media Player 12 uses the built-in Media Foundation codecs to play these formats by default. Action Center , formerly Windows Security Center, now encompasses both security and maintenance. A new user interface for User Account Control has been introduced, which provides the ability to select four different levels of notifications, one of these notification settings, Default , is new to Windows 7.

The feature will be disabled by default. When enabled the user will only have limited control as to which applications can track their location.

Because only the Media Foundation application programming interface could interact with this environment, a media player application had to be designed to use Media Foundation.

In Windows 7, this restriction is lifted. Windows 7 includes the new Windows Biometric Framework. In prior releases of Microsoft Windows, biometric hardware device manufacturers were required to provide a complete stack of software to support their device, including device drivers, software development kits, and support applications. Microsoft noted in a white paper on the Windows Biometric Framework that the proliferation of these proprietary stacks resulted in compatibility issues, compromised the quality and reliability of the system, and made servicing and maintenance more difficult.

By incorporating the core biometric functionality into the operating system, Microsoft aims to bring biometric device support on par with other classes of devices.

A new Control Panel called Biometric Device Control Panel is included which provides an interface for deleting stored biometrics information, troubleshooting, and enabling or disabling the types of logins that are allowed using biometrics.

Biometrics configuration can also be configured using Group Policy settings. Alongside the workgroup system used by previous versions, Windows 7 adds a new ad hoc home networking system known as HomeGroup. The system uses a password to join computers into the group, and allows users’ libraries, along with individual files and folders, to be shared between multiple computers. Only computers running Windows 7 to Windows 10 version can create or join a HomeGroup; [] [] however, users can make files and printers shared in a HomeGroup accessible to Windows XP and Windows Vista through a separate account, dedicated to sharing HomeGroup content, that uses traditional Windows sharing.

HomeGroup as a concept is very similar to a feature slated for Windows Vista, known as Castle , which would have made it possible to have an identification service for all members on the network, without a centralized server. HomeGroup is created in response to the need for a simple sharing model for inexperienced users who need to share files without wrestling with user accounts , Security descriptors and share permissions.

Under this model, either a certain file or folder was shared with anyone who connects to the network even unauthorized parties who are in range of the wireless network or was not shared at all. Windows 7 adds support for multiple firewall profiles. The Windows Firewall in Windows Vista dynamically changes which network traffic is allowed or blocked based on the location of the computer based on which network it is connected to.

This approach falls short if the computer is connected to more than one network at the same time as for a computer with both an Ethernet and a wireless interface. In this case, Vista applies the profile that is more secure to all network connections.

This is often not desirable; Windows 7 resolves this by being able to apply a separate firewall profile to each network connection. Windows 7 contains Windows PowerShell 2. Windows 7 includes Internet Explorer 8 , []. NET Framework 3. Paint and WordPad feature a Ribbon interface similar to the one introduced in Office , with both sporting several new features. Calculator has been rewritten, with multiline capabilities including Programmer and Statistics modes, unit conversion, and date calculations.

Calculator was also given a graphical facelift, the first since Windows 95 in and Windows NT 4. DLL files. Microsoft Magnifier, an accessibility utility for low vision users has been dramatically improved. Magnifier now supports the full screen zoom feature, whereas previous Windows versions had the Magnifier attached to the top of the screen in a dock layout. The new full screen feature is enabled by default, however, it requires Windows Aero for the advantage of the full screen zoom feature.

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Windows Home Server was based on Windows Server R2 and was intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing , automated backups, print server , and remote access.

It is paired with the Windows Home Server Console—client software accessed from another computer on the network to provide a graphical management interface. Windows Home Server , the next version of this operating system, was released on 6 April Windows Home Server was the brainchild of Charlie Kindel who was the General Manager for the product from through Microsoft has ended support for Windows Home Server on January 8, The configuration interface was designed to be user-friendly enough that it could be set up without prior knowledge of server administration.

The configuration interface, called the Home Server Console , was delivered as a Remote Desktop Protocol application to remote PCs while the application ran on the server itself, the GUI was rendered on the remote system.

The server itself required no video card or peripherals; it was designed to require only an Ethernet card and at least one Windows XP , Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer. Windows Home Server Drive Extender was a file-based replication system that provided three key capabilities: [21].

With drive extender, users could add larger capacity hard disk drives and then could offline lesser capacity drives to upgrade capacity online. For example, if the user was reaching capacity of the share with five terabytes of the six-terabyte capacity used with six one-terabyte drives then the user could offline one of the one-terabyte drives and physically replace it with a two-terabyte drive.

The WHS automatically equalizes the redistribution of used space across all available drives on a regular basis. The offline process would compress the used data across the minimum amount of drives allowing for the removal of one of the lesser capacity drives.

Once replaced with a drive of higher capacity the system will automatically redistribute used capacity among the pool to ensure space capacity on each drive. Users specifically those who configure a family’s home server dealt with storage at two levels: Shared Folders and Disks.

The only concepts relevant regarding disks was whether they had been “added” to the home server’s storage pool or not and whether the disk appeared healthy to the system or not. This was in contrast with Windows’ Logical Disk Manager which requires a greater degree of technical understanding in order to correctly configure a RAID array. Shared Folders had a name, a description, permissions, and a flag indicating whether duplication redundancy was on or off for that folder. If duplication was on for a Shared Folder which was the default on multi-disk Home Server systems and not applicable to single disk systems then the files in that Shared Folder were duplicated and the effective storage capacity was halved.

However, in situations where a user may not have wanted data duplicated e. TV shows that had been archived to a Windows Home Server from a system running Windows Media Center , Drive Extender provided the capability to not duplicate such files if the server was short on capacity or manually mark a complete content store as not for duplication.

A known limitation of Drive Extender was that it in some cases changed timestamp of directories and files when data was moved around between disks. According to Microsoft this was expected behavior. This caused unexpected behavior when using clients that sort media based on date.

The aforementioned programs worked fine with WHS; however, files may have appeared out of order due to this caveat. Criticism of Drive Extender’s removal mainly related to it being seen as a core feature of Windows Home Server and a key reason for adoption.

Windows Home Server Computer Backup automatically backs up all of the computers in a home to the server using an image-based system that ensures point-in-time-based restoration of either entire PCs or specific files and folders.

This technology uses Volume Shadow Services VSS technology on the client computer to take an image based backup of a running computer. Because the backup operates on data at the cluster level, single instancing can be performed to minimize the amount of data that travels over the network and that will ultimately be stored on the home server. This single instancing gives the server the ability to store only one instance of data, no matter if the data originated from another computer, another file, or even data within the same file.

Computer backup images are not duplicated on the server, so if a server hard drive fails, backups could be lost. The “Server Backup” feature added in Power Pack 1 does not include duplication of backup images. The system also offers an SSL secured web browser based interface over the Internet to the shared file stores.

The web interface also allows the uploading to and downloading of files from the content stores. The system also supports Terminal Services Gateway , allowing remote control of the desktop of any Windows computer on the home network. The web interface also supports embedding the Remote Desktop ActiveX control, to provide remote access to home computers from within the web interface directly.

Remote sessions can also connect to the Home Server console to configure the server over the internet. Windows Home Server allows for developers to publish community and commercial add-ins designed to enhance the Windows Home Server with added functionality.

Files stored on Windows Home Server are also available through a Windows share , opening compatibility to a wide variety of operating systems. Also, the Administration console is available via Remote Desktop, allowing administration from unsupported platforms.

However, unofficial workarounds allow Connector software to work on XP x Windows Home Server has not officially supported Domain Controller capability and cannot readily join a Windows Server domain. Wireless networking is supported. Dedicated devices will have the operating system pre-installed and may be supplied with a server recovery disk which reloads the OS over a network connection.

The first release of Windows Home Server, RTM release to manufacturing , suffered from a file corruption flaw whereby files saved directly to or edited on shares on a WHS device could become corrupted. Even though the issue was first acknowledged in October , [37] Microsoft formally warned users of the seriousness of the flaw on 20 December This issue was fixed by Power Pack 1, released on 21 July Power Pack 1 added the ability to back up files stored on the Shared Folders, to an external drive.

However, there remains no way to back up the installed server operating system. Backing-up of the client backup database is available either manually using the instructions provided by Microsoft on page 24 of this document or can be done using the WHS BDBB add-in written by Alex Kuretz and available from this website.

Some computer systems are available only with a bundled Windows Home Server license. As is the case with other versions of Windows it is possible to request a refund of the license fees paid for Windows Home Server. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Home server operating system by Microsoft released in This article relies too much on references to primary sources.

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Namespaces Article Talk. It supports a maximum of 32 physical processors on IA platform or 64 physical processors on x64 and IA hardware. The Datacenter edition, like the Enterprise edition, supports 8-node clustering. Clustering increases availability and fault tolerance of server installations by distributing and replicating the service among many servers. This edition supports clustering with each cluster having its own dedicated storage, or with all cluster nodes connected to a common SAN.

Windows Compute Cluster Server CCS , released in June , is designed for high-end applications that require high performance computing clusters.

It is designed to be deployed on numerous computers to be clustered together to achieve supercomputing speeds. Each Compute Cluster Server network comprises at least one controlling head node and subordinate processing nodes that carry out most of the work. It ties nodes together with a powerful inter-process communication mechanism which can be complex because of communications between hundreds or even thousands of processors working in parallel.

The application programming interface consists of over functions. A job launcher enables users to execute jobs to be executed in the computing cluster. Windows Storage Server , a part of the Windows Server series, is a specialized server operating system for network-attached storage NAS. Launched in at Storage Decisions in Chicago, it is optimized for use in file and print sharing and also in storage area network SAN scenarios.

It is only available through Original equipment manufacturers OEMs. Windows Storage Server NAS equipment can be headless , which means that they are without any monitors, keyboards or mice, and are administered remotely. Such devices are plugged into any existing IP network and the storage capacity is available to all users. Multiple such NAS servers can be clustered to appear as a single device, which allows responsibility for serving clients to be shared in such a way that if one server fails then other servers can take over often termed a failover which also improves fault-tolerance.

Windows Storage Server can also be used to create a Storage Area Network , in which the data is transferred in terms of chunks rather than files, thus providing more granularity to the data that can be transferred. This provides higher performance to database and transaction processing applications. Single instance storage SIS scans storage volumes for duplicate files, and moves the duplicate files to the common SIS store. The file on the volume is replaced with a link to the file.

Windows Storage Server R2 provides an index-based, full-text search based on the indexing engine already built into Windows server. Windows Storage Server can be promoted to function as a domain controller; however, this edition is not licensed to run directory services. It can be joined to an existing domain as a member server. Windows Small Business Server SBS is a software suite which includes Windows Server and additional technologies aimed at providing a small business with a complete technology solution.

SBS has the following design limitations, mainly affecting Active Directory: [30]. Windows Home Server was announced on January 7, , at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates and is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups, and remote access. Intended use was for building firewall, VPN caching servers and similar appliances. Availability of the original version ended May 28, Availability of R2 ended March 5, End of extended support was July 14, all variants except Storage Server [9] , and End of Licence was May 28, R2 and original.

All variants continued to receive Critical security updates until the end of extended support: [37]. While many features of the bit variant of Windows XP were brought over into Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, other limitations imposed by constraints such as only supporting bit drivers, and support for bit programs being dropped led to incompatibilities with the bit Windows XP editions available.

Among the improvements are many of the same updates that were provided to Windows XP users with Service Pack 2. Features that are added with Service Pack 1 include:. A full list of updates is available in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. Service Pack 2 for Windows Server was released on March 13, This was followed by build , known as Beta 2 Refresh. The final build is Microsoft has described Service Pack 2 as a “standard” service pack release containing previously released security updates, hotfixes, and reliability and performance improvements.

Service Pack 2 also adds Windows Server Scalable Networking Pack SNP , [48] which allows hardware acceleration for processing network packets, thereby enabling faster throughput. Windows Server R2 is an updated release of Windows Server , which contains a copy of Windows Server SP1 on one CD and a host of optionally installed new features on another disc, similar to Microsoft Plus! New features of Windows Server R2 include: [51].

On July 13, , Windows Server ‘s mainstream support expired and the extended support phase began. During the extended support phase, Microsoft continued to provide security updates; however, free technical support, warranty claims, and design changes are no longer being offered. Although Windows Server is unsupported, Microsoft released an emergency security patch in May for the OS as well as other unsupported versions of Windows including Windows Vista and Windows 7 RTM without a service pack , to address a vulnerability that was being leveraged by the WannaCry ransomware attack.

Anonymous users from managed to compile the Windows Server source code, as well as a Twitter user who posted videos of the process on YouTube proving that the code was genuine, [57] but was removed from the platform on copyright grounds by Microsoft. The leak was incomplete as it was missing the Winlogon source code and some other components.

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Devices and Printers is a new Control Panel interface that is directly accessible from the Start menu. Unlike the Device Manager Control Panel applet, which is still present, the icons shown on the Devices and Printers screen are limited to components of the system that a non-expert user will recognize as plug-in devices. For example, an external monitor connected to the system will be displayed as a device, but the internal monitor on a laptop will not. Device-specific features are available through the context menu for each device; an external monitor’s context menu, for example, provides a link to the “Display Settings” control panel.

This new Control Panel applet also replaces the “Printers” window in prior versions of Windows; common printer operations such as setting the default printer, installing or removing printers, and configuring properties such as paper size are done through this control panel.

Windows 7 and Server R2 introduce print driver isolation, which improves the reliability of the print spooler by running printer drivers in a separate process to the spooler service. If a third party print driver fails while isolated, it does not impact other drivers or the print spooler service.

Device Stage provides a centralized location for an externally connected multi-function device to present its functionality to the user. When a device such as a portable music player is connected to the system, the device appears as an icon on the task bar, as well as in Windows Explorer.

Windows 7 ships with high-resolution images of a number of popular devices, and is capable of connecting to the Internet to download images of devices it doesn’t recognize. Opening the icon presents a window that displays actions relevant to that device. Screenshots of the technology presented by Microsoft suggest that a mobile phone could offer options for two-way synchronization, configuring ring-tones, copying pictures and videos, managing the device in Windows Media Player , and using Windows Explorer to navigate through the device.

The actual per-device functionality is defined via XML files that are downloaded when the device is first connected to the computer, or are provided by the manufacturer on an installation disc. Hilton Locke, who worked on the Tablet PC team at Microsoft, reported on December 11, that Windows 7 will have new touch features on devices supporting multi-touch. An overview and demonstration of the multi-touch capabilities, including a virtual piano program, a mapping and directions program and a touch-aware version of Microsoft Paint , was given at the All Things Digital Conference on May 27, ; a video of the multi-touch capabilities was made available on the web later the same day.

Windows 7 introduces native support for sensors, including accelerometer sensors, ambient light sensors, and location-based sensors; [48] the operating system also provides a unified driver model for sensor devices. Because data acquired by some sensors can be considered personally identifiable information , all sensors are disabled by default in Windows 7, and an account in Windows 7 requires administrative permissions to enable a sensor.

Sensors also require user consent to share location data. Unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 is able to report when a laptop battery is in need of a replacement. The operating system works with design capabilities present in modern laptop batteries to report this information. The powercfg command enables the customization of the hibernation file size. The operating system also compresses the contents of memory during the hibernate process to minimize the possibility that the contents exceeds the default size of the hibernation file.

With a video driver conforming to Windows Display Driver Model v1. This allows DWM to use significantly lower amounts of system memory, which do not grow regardless of how many windows are opened, like it was in Windows Vista.

The Desktop Window Manager in Windows 7 also adds support for systems using multiple heterogeneous graphics cards from different vendors. Each user of Windows 7 and Server R2 has individual DPI settings, rather than the machine having a single setting as in previous versions of Windows. DPI settings can be changed by logging on and off, without needing to restart. Over time, several technologies have been incorporated into subsequent versions of Windows to improve the performance of the operating system on traditional hard disk drives HDD with rotating platters.

Since Solid state drives SSD differ from mechanical HDDs in some key areas no moving parts, write amplification , limited number of erase cycles allowed for reliable operation , it is beneficial to disable certain optimizations and add others, specifically for SSDs.

Windows 7 incorporates many engineering changes to reduce the frequency of writes and flushes, which benefit SSDs in particular since each write operation wears the flash memory.

Windows 7 also makes use of the TRIM command. If supported by the SSD not implemented on early devices , this optimizes when erase cycles are performed, reducing the need to erase blocks before each write and increasing write performance. Several tools and techniques that were implemented in the past to reduce the impact of the rotational latency of traditional HDDs, most notably disk defragmentation , SuperFetch , ReadyBoost , and application launch prefetching , involve reorganizing rewriting the data on the platters.

Since SSDs have no moving platters, this reorganization has no advantages, and may instead shorten the life of the solid state memory.

Finally, partitions made with Windows 7’s partition-creating tools are created with the SSD’s alignment needs in mind, avoiding unwanted systematic write amplification. By default, a computer’s disk is partitioned into two partitions : one of limited size for booting , BitLocker and running the Windows Recovery Environment and the second with the operating system and user files.

Windows 7 has also seen improvements to the Safely Remove Hardware menu, including the ability to eject just one camera card at the same time from a single hub and retain the ports for future use without reboot; and the labels of removable media are now also listed, rather than just the drive letter. BitLocker brings encryption support to removable disks such as USB drives. Such devices can be protected by a passphrase, a recovery key, or be automatically unlocked on a computer. The more lengthy boot times on the remainder of the machines are mainly due to some services or programs that are loaded but are not required when the system is first started.

Microsoft’s Mike Fortin, a distinguished engineer on the Windows team, noted in August that Microsoft has set aside a team to work solely on the issue, and that team aims to “significantly increase the number of systems that experience very good boot times”. They “focused very hard on increasing parallelism of driver initialization”. Also, Microsoft aims to “dramatically reduce” the number of system services, along with their demands on processors, storage, and memory.

The bit versions of Windows 7 and Server R2 introduce a user-mode scheduling framework. While for most applications this is sufficient, applications with large concurrent threading requirements, such as a database server , can benefit from having a thread scheduler in-process. This is because the kernel no longer needs to be involved in context switches between threads, and it obviates the need for a thread pool mechanism, as threads can be created and destroyed much more quickly when no kernel context switches are required.

Prior to Windows 7, Windows used a one-to-one user thread to kernel-thread relationship. With Windows 7’s user-mode scheduling, a program may configure one or more kernel threads as a scheduler supplied by a programming language library one per logical processor desired and then create a user-mode thread pool from which these UMS can draw.

The kernel maintains a list of outstanding system calls which allows the UMS to continue running without blocking the kernel thread. This configuration can be used as either many-to-one or many-to-many.

There are several benefits to a user mode scheduler. Context switching in User Mode can be faster. UMS also introduces cooperative multitasking. Having customizable scheduler also gives more control over thread execution. Windows Media Center in Windows 7 has retained much of the design and feel of its predecessor, but with a variety of user interface shortcuts and browsing capabilities.

Some notable enhancements in Windows 7 Media Center include a new mini guide, a new scrub bar, the option to color code the guide by show type, and internet content that is more tightly integrated with regular TV via the guide.

When browsing the media library, items that don’t have album art are shown in a range of foreground and background color combinations instead of using white text on a blue background. When the left or right remote control buttons are held down to browse the library quickly, a two-letter prefix of the current album name is prominently shown as a visual aid.

The Picture Library includes new slideshow capabilities, and individual pictures can be rated. Also, while browsing a media library, a new column appears at the top named “Shared. A gadget for Windows Media Center is also included. Transcoding encoding support is not exposed through any built-in Windows application but codecs are included as Media Foundation Transforms MFTs.

For playback of various media formats, Windows 7 also introduces an H. Windows Media Player 12 uses the built-in Media Foundation codecs to play these formats by default. Action Center , formerly Windows Security Center, now encompasses both security and maintenance.

A new user interface for User Account Control has been introduced, which provides the ability to select four different levels of notifications, one of these notification settings, Default , is new to Windows 7. The feature will be disabled by default.

When enabled the user will only have limited control as to which applications can track their location. Because only the Media Foundation application programming interface could interact with this environment, a media player application had to be designed to use Media Foundation. In Windows 7, this restriction is lifted.

Windows 7 includes the new Windows Biometric Framework. In prior releases of Microsoft Windows, biometric hardware device manufacturers were required to provide a complete stack of software to support their device, including device drivers, software development kits, and support applications.

Microsoft noted in a white paper on the Windows Biometric Framework that the proliferation of these proprietary stacks resulted in compatibility issues, compromised the quality and reliability of the system, and made servicing and maintenance more difficult. By incorporating the core biometric functionality into the operating system, Microsoft aims to bring biometric device support on par with other classes of devices.

A new Control Panel called Biometric Device Control Panel is included which provides an interface for deleting stored biometrics information, troubleshooting, and enabling or disabling the types of logins that are allowed using biometrics. Biometrics configuration can also be configured using Group Policy settings.

Alongside the workgroup system used by previous versions, Windows 7 adds a new ad hoc home networking system known as HomeGroup. The system uses a password to join computers into the group, and allows users’ libraries, along with individual files and folders, to be shared between multiple computers. Only computers running Windows 7 to Windows 10 version can create or join a HomeGroup; [] [] however, users can make files and printers shared in a HomeGroup accessible to Windows XP and Windows Vista through a separate account, dedicated to sharing HomeGroup content, that uses traditional Windows sharing.

HomeGroup as a concept is very similar to a feature slated for Windows Vista, known as Castle , which would have made it possible to have an identification service for all members on the network, without a centralized server. HomeGroup is created in response to the need for a simple sharing model for inexperienced users who need to share files without wrestling with user accounts , Security descriptors and share permissions. Under this model, either a certain file or folder was shared with anyone who connects to the network even unauthorized parties who are in range of the wireless network or was not shared at all.

Windows 7 adds support for multiple firewall profiles. The Windows Firewall in Windows Vista dynamically changes which network traffic is allowed or blocked based on the location of the computer based on which network it is connected to. This approach falls short if the computer is connected to more than one network at the same time as for a computer with both an Ethernet and a wireless interface. In this case, Vista applies the profile that is more secure to all network connections.

This is often not desirable; Windows 7 resolves this by being able to apply a separate firewall profile to each network connection. Windows 7 contains Windows PowerShell 2. Windows 7 includes Internet Explorer 8 , []. NET Framework 3. Paint and WordPad feature a Ribbon interface similar to the one introduced in Office , with both sporting several new features.

Calculator has been rewritten, with multiline capabilities including Programmer and Statistics modes, unit conversion, and date calculations. Calculator was also given a graphical facelift, the first since Windows 95 in and Windows NT 4. DLL files. Microsoft Magnifier, an accessibility utility for low vision users has been dramatically improved.

Magnifier now supports the full screen zoom feature, whereas previous Windows versions had the Magnifier attached to the top of the screen in a dock layout. The new full screen feature is enabled by default, however, it requires Windows Aero for the advantage of the full screen zoom feature. Windows Installer 5.

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Windows Home Server code-named Quattro [4] is a home server operating system from Microsoft. It was announced on 7 January at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates , [5] released to manufacturing on 16 July [6] and officially released on 4 November Windows Home Server was based on Windows Server R2 and was intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing , automated backups, print server , and remote access.

It is paired with the Windows Home Server Console—client software accessed from another computer on the network to provide a graphical management interface. Windows Home Server , the next version of this operating system, was released on 6 April Windows Home Server was the brainchild of Charlie Kindel who was the General Manager for the product from through Microsoft has ended support for Windows Home Server on January 8, The configuration interface was designed to be user-friendly enough that it could be set up without prior knowledge of server administration.

The configuration interface, called the Home Server Console , was delivered as a Remote Desktop Protocol application to remote PCs while the application ran on the server itself, the GUI was rendered on the remote system. The server itself required no video card or peripherals; it was designed to require only an Ethernet card and at least one Windows XP , Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer.

Windows Home Server Drive Extender was a file-based replication system that provided three key capabilities: [21]. With drive extender, users could add larger capacity hard disk drives and then could offline lesser capacity drives to upgrade capacity online. For example, if the user was reaching capacity of the share with five terabytes of the six-terabyte capacity used with six one-terabyte drives then the user could offline one of the one-terabyte drives and physically replace it with a two-terabyte drive.

The WHS automatically equalizes the redistribution of used space across all available drives on a regular basis. The offline process would compress the used data across the minimum amount of drives allowing for the removal of one of the lesser capacity drives. Once replaced with a drive of higher capacity the system will automatically redistribute used capacity among the pool to ensure space capacity on each drive.

Users specifically those who configure a family’s home server dealt with storage at two levels: Shared Folders and Disks. The only concepts relevant regarding disks was whether they had been “added” to the home server’s storage pool or not and whether the disk appeared healthy to the system or not. This was in contrast with Windows’ Logical Disk Manager which requires a greater degree of technical understanding in order to correctly configure a RAID array.

Shared Folders had a name, a description, permissions, and a flag indicating whether duplication redundancy was on or off for that folder. If duplication was on for a Shared Folder which was the default on multi-disk Home Server systems and not applicable to single disk systems then the files in that Shared Folder were duplicated and the effective storage capacity was halved. However, in situations where a user may not have wanted data duplicated e. TV shows that had been archived to a Windows Home Server from a system running Windows Media Center , Drive Extender provided the capability to not duplicate such files if the server was short on capacity or manually mark a complete content store as not for duplication.

A known limitation of Drive Extender was that it in some cases changed timestamp of directories and files when data was moved around between disks. According to Microsoft this was expected behavior. This caused unexpected behavior when using clients that sort media based on date.

The aforementioned programs worked fine with WHS; however, files may have appeared out of order due to this caveat. Criticism of Drive Extender’s removal mainly related to it being seen as a core feature of Windows Home Server and a key reason for adoption. Windows Home Server Computer Backup automatically backs up all of the computers in a home to the server using an image-based system that ensures point-in-time-based restoration of either entire PCs or specific files and folders.

This technology uses Volume Shadow Services VSS technology on the client computer to take an image based backup of a running computer. Because the backup operates on data at the cluster level, single instancing can be performed to minimize the amount of data that travels over the network and that will ultimately be stored on the home server. This single instancing gives the server the ability to store only one instance of data, no matter if the data originated from another computer, another file, or even data within the same file.

Computer backup images are not duplicated on the server, so if a server hard drive fails, backups could be lost. The “Server Backup” feature added in Power Pack 1 does not include duplication of backup images. The system also offers an SSL secured web browser based interface over the Internet to the shared file stores. The web interface also allows the uploading to and downloading of files from the content stores.

The system also supports Terminal Services Gateway , allowing remote control of the desktop of any Windows computer on the home network. The web interface also supports embedding the Remote Desktop ActiveX control, to provide remote access to home computers from within the web interface directly. Remote sessions can also connect to the Home Server console to configure the server over the internet. Windows Home Server allows for developers to publish community and commercial add-ins designed to enhance the Windows Home Server with added functionality.

Files stored on Windows Home Server are also available through a Windows share , opening compatibility to a wide variety of operating systems. Also, the Administration console is available via Remote Desktop, allowing administration from unsupported platforms.

However, unofficial workarounds allow Connector software to work on XP x Windows Home Server has not officially supported Domain Controller capability and cannot readily join a Windows Server domain.

Wireless networking is supported. Dedicated devices will have the operating system pre-installed and may be supplied with a server recovery disk which reloads the OS over a network connection.

The first release of Windows Home Server, RTM release to manufacturing , suffered from a file corruption flaw whereby files saved directly to or edited on shares on a WHS device could become corrupted. Even though the issue was first acknowledged in October , [37] Microsoft formally warned users of the seriousness of the flaw on 20 December This issue was fixed by Power Pack 1, released on 21 July Power Pack 1 added the ability to back up files stored on the Shared Folders, to an external drive.

However, there remains no way to back up the installed server operating system. Backing-up of the client backup database is available either manually using the instructions provided by Microsoft on page 24 of this document or can be done using the WHS BDBB add-in written by Alex Kuretz and available from this website. Some computer systems are available only with a bundled Windows Home Server license.

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Remote Desktop Protocol RDP is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection.

Microsoft makes some specifications public on their website. Microsoft provides the client required for connecting to newer RDP versions windows server foundation 2012 remote desktop free downlevel operating systems. Since the server improvements are not available downlevel, the features introduced with each newer RDP version only work on downlevel operating systems when connecting to a higher version RDP server from these older operating systems, and not when using the RDP server in the older operating system.

Microsoft required Citrix to license their MultiWin technology to Microsoft in order to be allowed to continue offering their own terminal-services product, then named Citrix MetaFrame, atop Windows NT 4.

Later versions of Windows integrated the necessary support directly. The T. This version was introduced with Windows Serveradded support for a number windows server foundation 2012 remote desktop free features, including printing to local printers, and aimed to improve network bandwidth usage.

This version was introduced with Windows XP Professional and included support for bit color and sound. This version was introduced with Windows Serverincluded support for console mode connections, a session directory, and local resource mapping. This version was introduced with Windows Vista and incorporated support for Windows Presentation Foundation applications, Network Level Authenticationmulti-monitor spanning and large desktop support, and TLS 1.

However, to start a remote administration session, one must be a member of the Administrators group on the server to which one is trying to get connected. This version was released to manufacturing in July and windows server foundation 2012 remote desktop free included with Windows Server R2, as well as with Windows 7.

This version has new functions such as Windows Media Player redirection, bidirectional audio, multi-monitor support, Aero glass support, enhanced bitmap acceleration, Easy Print redirection, [16] Language Bar docking. The RDP 7. Most RDP 7. Release 7. This version was released in Windows 8 and Windows Server The RDP 8. The add-on requires the DTLS protocol to be installed as prerequisite.

A new feature in RDP 8. The Aero Glass remoting adobe audition 3.0 full mega free download applicable to Windows 7 machines connecting to each other has also been removed in RDP 8. This version was released with Windows 8. A RDP 8. Furthermore, читать статью RDP 8. Support for session shadowing was added back in RDP version 8. This version also fixes some visual glitches with Microsoft Office when running as a RemoteApp. Version 8. Logging into this mode only requires knowledge of the hashed password, rather than of its plaintexttherefore making a pass the hash attack possible.

Version In addition graphics compression improvements were included utilizing H. Version 5. Administrators can enable transport layer encryption to mitigate this risk. RDP sessions are also susceptible to in-memory /9644.txt harvesting, which can be used to launch pass the hash attacks. The vulnerability allowed a Windows computer to be compromised by unauthenticated clients and computer worms.

RDP client version 6. In May Microsoft issued a security patch for CVE – ” BlueKeep “a vulnerability which allows for the possibility of remote code execution and which Microsoft warned was “wormable”, with the potential to cause widespread disruption. Unusually, patches were also made available for several versions of Windows that had reached their end-of-life, such as Windows XP. No immediate malicious exploitation followed, but experts were unanimous that windows server foundation 2012 remote desktop free was windows server foundation 2012 remote desktop free, and could cause widespread harm based on the number of systems that appeared to have remained exposed and unpatched.

There are numerous non-Microsoft implementations of RDP clients and servers that implement subsets of the Microsoft functionality. Inrdesktop was forked as FreeRDP, a new project aiming at modularizing the code, addressing various issues, and implementing new features. Remmina is also based on FreeRDP. The Windows Remote Desktop Connection client can be used to connect to /26322.txt a server.

Proprietary RDP windows server foundation 2012 remote desktop free solutions such as rdpclient are available as a stand-alone application or embedded with client hardware. By default, Microsoft’s RDP server refuses connections to user accounts with empty passwords but this can be changed with the Group Policy Editor [47].

External and guest authorization options are provided by VRDP as well. It does not matter which operating system is installed as a guest because VRDP is implemented on the virtual machine host level, not in the guest system. The proprietary VirtualBox Extension Windows server foundation 2012 remote desktop free is required. Microsoft requires third-party implementations to license windows server foundation 2012 remote desktop free relevant RDP patents.

Security посмотреть больше have reported that cybercriminals are selling compromised RDP servers on underground forums as well as specialized illicit RDP shops. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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