Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 R2

Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 R2 is an updated release of the Windows Server 2003 operating system.

How do I sell it?

The building block of all server product sales, selling Windows server opens the door for you to upsell across the entire server product range. This release makes it easier and more cost effective for your customers to extend connectivity and control to identities, locations, data and applications throughout and beyond their organisation.

The most productive infrastructure platform for powering connected applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the data centre. Easy to deploy, manage and use, Windows Server 2003 helps your customers build a secure IT infrastructure that provides a powerful application platform for quickly building connected solutions.

Customer Pain Points

Use Windows Server 2003 R2 to address the following customer pain points:

Remote or Branch Server Management Maintain the performance, availability and productivity benefits of a local branch office server while avoiding issues typically associated with branch solutions such as connectivity limitation and management overhead Identity and Access Management Active Directory Federation Services are designed to help administrators address identity management challenges by making it possible for organisations to share a user’s identity information more securely across security boundaries Storage Management New tools designed to provide a centralised view of storage help simplify storage planning, provisioning and maintenance, and improve monitoring and reporting Cost-Effective Virtualisation Policy changes now allow customers to run up to four virtual instances for Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition on one licensed physical server or hardware petition