HP Factory-Installed Operating System Software for Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2011, Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 Essentials User Guide

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operating system performance. The HP Management Agents help prevent problems by issuing alerts
when faults occur.
• Preconfigured with NTFS—Many new features in Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
Standard, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and Microsoft Windows Server
2012 Essentials require NTFS, including the ability to promote the server to a domain controller to use
Microsoft Active Directory. In addition, NTFS offers greater security. Review the Microsoft Windows
Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials software documentation to properly configure the server
and to understand how to use NTFS with Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard,
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Essentials, while concurrently using previous versions of Microsoft Windows NT in a network
infrastructure.
For more information about Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, see the HP website
(http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/factory-installed.html) or the Microsoft®
website (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008).