Another Enhancement is a Configuration Editor for managing web server as well as web application settings. Also now users can easily access FastCGI and ASP.NET applications which were earlier hidden. Another addition is Request filtering module, which provides filtering features that were earlier present in URLScan3.1.

R2 Beta uses dynamic I/O redirection mechanism in which I/O can be rerouted inside the Failover cluster to provide improved cluster node connectivity.

In addition to this, R2 has a new version of FTP server services which is integrated with IIS 7.5 administration interface. New FTP server allows users to define a virtual host name for an FTP site, which means, now you can have multiple FTP sites on a single IP address.

Management improvements
Now users can boot Windows 2008 R2 directly from a SAN which means you no longer require local hard disk in every server. This helps in reducing the overall storage power consumption. R2 Beta can also reduce processor power consumption by adjusting the ACPI "p-states" of the processors.