Hardware Management and Security

Windows Server 2008 introduced Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) as a common infrastructure for handling hardware errors. WHEA uses richer error reporting to reduce mean time to recovery for fatal hardware errors and uses hardware health monitoring to reduce system crashes. These advances supplement support in Windows for solutions that use system management BIOS (SMBIOS), Web Services for Management (WS-Management), and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

We recommend that system designers consider Windows BitLocker drive encryption, together with Trusted Platform Module version 1.2 (TPM 1.2), for both mobile and server systems.