I have been using Windows Server for the past 8 years now, I can safely say it is the best way to manage your organization. The Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter 64 Bit - Academic License edition includes multiple roles that are essential to your company's success. Active Directory is probably its most important feature, allowing you to manage users and secure your resources. Installing and configuring windows server is very simple, just follow the wizards and you'll be up and running in no time. Other notable features are Hyper-V which allows the virtualization of multiple other windows server instances without taking any physical space.

It is well suited for managing server applications which can be hosted on the server and accessed from various locations within the organisation (as long as every site is on the server subnet). Hardware applications can be managed as well from the server such as network devices.PowerShell 3.0. Doing commands via the commands rather than the GUI. HyperV virtualization which has a better feature than the 2008 feature. Its ability to run various operating systems on the server and also able to provide a virtual switch.

We have various Windows servers running across our organisation within different branches. Recently we upgraded from 2008 to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter 64 Bit - Academic License edition to meet our organisational needs and also as a means of meeting IT standards. It has addressed issues such as file sharing, folder redirection, and migration issues. The organisation was seamlessly able to migrate to 2012 via PowerShell.