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Microsoft Windows Server

Microsoft® Windows Server® helps information technology professionals maximize control over their infrastructure while providing unprecedented availability and management capabilities. Now with Windows Server 2008 you can develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within your organization.

F5's Application Ready Network for Windows Server provides a number of ways to accelerate, optimize, and easily scale Microsoft Windows Server deployments. F5 has worked with Microsoft during the beta cycle and beyond to ensure a high level of interoperability and optimization with the entire Windows Server 2008 R2 platform.

Read the following documents for more information about F5's solutions for Microsoft Windows Server.

Why do I need F5 for my Windows Server deployment?

With F5, you get comprehensive Microsoft-ready infrastructure that enhances the performance, security, and availability of Windows Server deployments.

Benefits of F5's Application Ready Network for Microsoft Windows Server:

  • Improve application response times and user capacity
  • Decrease 98% of server connections from the Microsoft IIS component of Windows Server
  • Meet IPv6 demands with F5 devices that perform IPv6/IPv4 translation
  • Gain 25% server capacity with SSL, compression, and caching offload
  • Maintain client server attachment for Microsoft DirectAccess server deployments
  • Offload hash calculations during Windows Server 2008 R2 branch cache and Windows 7 client deployments
  • Automates network reconfigurations during changes in virtualized applications running on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V 2008 R2

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Application Ready Network

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How do I deploy Microsoft Windows Server with F5?

Windows Server is comprised of some major applications, such as Internet Information Services (IIS) and Windows Terminal Services (WTS). F5 has painstakingly tested our products with each of these applications and carefully documented the results in our comprehensive deployment guides to make implementation quick and easy. And on DevCentral, F5's developer community, you can find information and downloads for IIS and WTS, as well as PowerShell and other components of Windows Server.

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DevCentral Community

F5 Devcentral, is our community driven site that helps customers and partners maximize the effectiveness of F5 technologies & solutions.

F5 Knowledge Base

The AskF5 Knowledge Base has product manuals, security advisories, and release notes on F5 products.

What F5 offerings do I need for a Windows Server solution?

F5's entire portfolio of Application Delivery Networking products works together to ensure your Windows Server deployment is always secure, fast, and available. For more information on individual products, click the following links:

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F5 Technology Demo

This animated demo shows the F5 application delivery networking technologies working in different scenarios.

BIG-IP Overview Demo

This in-depth Flash demo gives a video introduction, overview, and next steps for using BIG-IP.

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