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We’ve published performance tuning guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2.

• WHITEPAPER: Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
  http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/
  Perf_tun_srv-R2.mspx

Included in this whitepaper are guidelines around tuning the OS for the following workloads:

• Choosing and Tuning Server Hardware
• Performance Tuning for the Networking Subsystem
• Performance Tuning for the Storage Subsystem
• Performance Tuning for Web Servers
• Performance Tuning for File Servers
• Performance Tuning for Active Directory Servers
• Performance Tuning for Remote Desktop Session Host (formerly Terminal Server)
• Performance Tuning for Remote Desktop Gateway
• Performance Tuning for Virtualization Servers
• Performance Tuning for File Server Workload (NetBench)
• Performance Tuning for File Server Workload (SPECsfs2008)
• Performance Tuning for Network Workload (NTttcp)
• Performance Tuning for Remote Desktop Services Knowledge Worker Workload
• Performance Tuning for SAP Sales and Distribution Two-Tier Workload
• Performance Tuning for TCP-E Workload