Technical Area

Functionality / Feature

Details

Networking

Black hole router detection

Improves black hole router detection (detecting routers that are silently discarding packets). This detection is turned on by default.

Networking

Network Access Protection

Allows you to better protect network assets by enforcing compliance with system health requirements. For more information about Network Access Protection, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110597.

Security

Credentials security service provider

Allows forward compatibility with Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008, And enables applications to delegate user credentials from the client to the target server. This security service provider is available through the security service provider interface, and it is used by Remote Desktop Protocol 6.0.

Security

Descriptive security options control panel

Offers more descriptive text to explain the settings and prevent incorrect configuration of settings.

Security

Enhanced security for Administrator and Service policy entries

Presents Administrators and Service entries (in System Center Essentials) by default on new policy instances. Additionally, a user will not be able to remove the setting in the UI for the "Impersonate Client After Authentication" user right.

Security

Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module

Implements and supports the SHA2 hashing algorithms (SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512) in X.509 certificate validation.

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-1 standard has been replaced by FIPS 140-2, and these modules have been validated and certified according to this standard.

Setup

Windows Product Activation

Allows users to complete their software setup without having to provide a product key.

User Interface

Additional Languages

These nine new languages are now supported :
   • Bulgarian
   • Croatian
   • Slovak
   • Thai
   • Italian
   • Romanian
   • Slovenian
   • Estonian
   • Latvian