If you are using an Itanium-based system, you will need to migrate
some roles to servers running more conventional processors where those roles are fully
supported. For example, SharePoint is not supported with Windows Server 2008 on Itanium-
based systems. To see a complete list of roles that are supported and unsupported
on Itanium-based systems, go to Microsoft??™s Windows Server Web site. Windows Server
2008 for Itanium-based systems is a specialized platform that is purposely built to function
as an application server. Due to this design constraint, many common features are not
supported. This includes but is not limited to being able to run Media Player and use other
multimedia tools, Bluetooth, wireless and IrDA, modems/TAPI (Telephony Application
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Program Interface), and Windows Messenger. You probably wouldn??™t be running these
services anyway on a server unless it is fulfilling a very specific multimedia server role.
However, the server does support some very critical optional components, such as cluster
services, Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), network load balancing, storage
area network (SAN), and Windows System Resource Manager. Although there is support
for a 32-bit emulated environment, application functionality could potentially be limited
by the core functionality that the server can support.
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