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Step 2: Pick the right version of Windows Server

Windows Server 2012 comes in two flavours, Standard and Datacenter

by: Rene Millman

25 Sep 2013

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Windows Server 2012 comes in two flavours, Standard and Datacenter. The difference between the two is in hardware support and guest virtual machines.

For the purposes of this tutorial we will install the Standard edition. Also, this will be a new install so we won't concern ourselves with backing up applications and data.

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