Microsoft Press has another free ebook available. Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Technical Overview gives a great explanation of new features and changes made in Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. The book covers such topics as previous enhancements and new changes to:
- Hyper-V
- Storage
- Failover clustering
- Networking
- Active Directory
- Group Policy
- IIS
- Remote Desktop Services
- PowerShell
- Windows Server Essentials
The topics are covered concisely and still manage to be very informational for technical topics. If you want to keep up to speed with the new Server 2012 R2 features, check out this ebook. It is currently available for download as a PDF from the Microsoft Press blog. Other formats like ePub and mobi are listed as coming soon.
