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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I noticed a number of responses to this, but I&#8217;m gonna add my 2 cents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>First of all for new machines, there is no reason to install or buy an older version of the OS. The current version being sold is Server 2012 R2. Unless you need to operate with something that has been deprecated in the newer versions of the OS, and a lot of stuff has been since 2008R2, there would be no reason to go backward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If we are talking about using an existing system, then the question is: Is there a reason to upgrade? And that would all depend on the application FS is being used for. Are you doing things where there are great performance improvements in newer versions of the OS? For example does your application do lots of Disk I/O? If so then consider upgrading since 2008R2 doesn&#8217;t handle 4k native sector size drives. Are you building an HA application? If so, consider 2012/2012R2 because you have much cheaper hardware solutions to cluster. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>As you can see, there is no one correct answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>--Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Guilherme Dantas<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 26, 2014 10:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Freeswitch-users] Windows server + freeswitch<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am new at this mail list, so I don`t know how to check if this question was asked before (if yes, I am sorry)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Which of these two Windows Server versions would be better to use with the Freeswitch?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>Windows server 2008 R2 or&#8230;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>Windows server 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=660 style='width:495.0pt'><tr style='height:14.25pt'><td width=14 rowspan=9 style='width:10.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:14.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=340 style='width:255.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:14.25pt'></td><td width=306 rowspan=9 style='width:229.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:14.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.inovax.com.br/"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT-BR;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=306 height=150 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFDB26.37319430" alt="Description: Description: www.inovax.com.br"></span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:18.75pt'><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:18.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>Guilherme Vieira Dantas </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'>- <i>Estagiário</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:12.0pt'><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:PT-BR'><a href="mailto:guilherme.dantas@inovax.com.br">guilherme.dantas@inovax.com.br</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></td></tr>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