★ New Server Manager: Create, Manage Server Groups

★ Hyper-V Replication : The Hyper-V Replica feature allows you to replicate a virtual machine from one location to another with Hyper-V and a network connection-and without any shared storage required. This is a big deal in the Microsoft world for disaster recovery, high availability and more. VMware does this, too, but the vendor charges new licensees extra for the capability.

★ Expanded PowerShell Capabilities

★ IIS 8.0 and IIS 7 in 2008

★ Hyper-V 3.0

★ PowerShell 3.0