Which edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 I should use?

In which situation I should use WS 2008 R2 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition.
What are the limitations in Standard Edition? Does it based on how many users our organization have? or something else.

You can download the edition comparison pdf from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/C/6/FC6006B5-866E-42C1-88F8-9AC4B8BC610D/WS%20Brand%20Pages%20-%20Editions%20Comparison%20Guide.pdf which gives all the limitations, restrictions etc between the different editions.
Some relate to the number of connections available in standard (generally unlimited in Enterprise / Datacenter), while others relate to hardware limits, like the amount of memory supported and the number of CPU sockets etc.
If you're using virtualisation then the edition can make a difference, with each edition including a different number of virtual machines available to be installed on the host server using that same licence.

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Final result:                  Failed: see details below
Exit code (Decimal):           -2068053929
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Hello,
The following are a few things you can try:
Copy the media to the local disk drive, unzip it (in case you are installing from an ISO file, and run SQL Server setup from there.
Try to unregister and register the Windows Installer with the following two commands:
msiexec /unregister
msiexec /regserver
Try to use Process Monitor to log the detailed error produced when the installation of dw20sharedamd64.msi fails. You can download Process Monitor from the following link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645
Share with us the error captured by Process Monitor.
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Hello Team,
Is there any issue/conflicts/limitationn to install MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition.
OR their is nothing to worry about it I guess their is memory limitation between both of them. Please suggest
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Hi,
Here you can find the officially Hardware and Software Requirements for SQL Server 2008 R2:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506(v=sql.105).aspx
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Please help me..
is it possible to install sql server 2008 standard edition in windows server 2008 enterprise edition?
will any problem arise?

Hiya,
Yes it it possible. No there will not be any problems.
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[http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17781_01/install.112/e18803/toc.htm]
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Is it supported to run Oracle Database XE on Windows Server 2008 R2?No.
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Windows server 2008 R2 x64 Authentication failure while try to access Windows server 2003 R2

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Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
What’s your client OS and RDP version in your environment?
First of all suggest you to run “sfc /scanow” with this link to check whether which file causing the issue. Check the RDP version on the RDP client computer as well as the .NET framework version with respect to the operating system used (as explained above).
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