Windows Web Server 2008 R2 is a powerful Web application & services platform. Featuring Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 & designed exclusively as an Internet-facing server, it offers enhanced administration & diagnostic tools to help reduce infrastructure costs when used with a variety of popular development platforms. With included Web Server & DNS Server roles, as well as enhanced reliability & scalability, this platform means that you can manage the most demanding environments
- from a dedicated Web server to an entire Web server farm. Designed to be used specifically as a single-purpose Internet-facing Web server, Windows Web Server 2008 R2 delivers on a rock solid foundation of Web infrastructure capabilities in the next-generation Windows Server 2008. Integrated with the newly re-architected IIS 7.0, ASP.NET, & the Microsoft. NET Framework, Windows Web Server 2008 R2 enables any organization to rapidly deploy Web pages, Web sites, Web applications, & Web services. Windows Web Server 2008 R2 optimized specifically for Internet-facing Web-serving environments & built on industry standards allowing organizations to easily build new, or integrate into existing, server infrastructure environments. Web developers can build Web pages & services that can communicate with other platforms using standards-based interfaces like XML & SOAP. This level of cost-effective application development encourages business productivity & flexibility, & increases business solution opportunities.