This is not a comprehensive list, and I will certainly dig into some of these in more detail later, but it should give you a good idea. Windows Server 2008 builds on the solid WS2003 security record, which was a huge step forward from Windows 2000. As a tribute to 2003, please check out http://www.loneserver.com, a fun site about the last WS2003 in use in the MSCOM server network.Visual Studio 2008 has the latest generation of security source code scanning tools.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2136946/windows-server-2008-launch-security-highlights.html