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It isn't exclusive to 2012. It is exclusive to the product its self.

If the product will only run on 2012 then it is exclusive to 2012, but otherwise it will work fine on 2008 R2.

yea, but IIS, HyperV and any internal features to the OS (DNS Server, DHCP, ActiveDirectory, etc) all, on 2012, have Powershell support, but not necessarily on 2008 R2.

Right, but much of it is. Powershell has been a core part of Windows server and its respective components for a while.

"Windows Server 2008/R2 shipped with ~230 cmdlets. Windows Server 2012 beats that by a factor of over 10 shipping ~ 2,430 cmdlets."

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/05/30/...

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