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Microsoft Announces "New" Hyper-V Server 2008, Dave Yawns
Microsoft held a big shindig today to announce new goodies for the "Get Virtualized" marketing campaign. Among the notable items was the announcement that Hyper-V Server 2008, a new bare metal hypervisor product (sans Windows Server 2008) will...
WHS or WS08: Depends on Your Quirks
There's a lot of cool stuff going with Windows Home Server (WHS) lately. Especially now that PP1 has been out for a while and added some fixes and improvements. This short blog post by Paul Thurrott is but one example of the coolness WHS provides...
Windows Server 2008 Virtual Appliance for VMware
Have you heard someone around you say something like "I would really like to play with Windows Server 2008, but I can't afford it"? Or maybe "I would like to play with WS08 but I don't have a *server* laying around to try it on...
Sometimes I want to go back to bed
After reading this post , I had to shake my head. There's nothing inherently "wrong" with the post itself , nor with what Shawn says. It's with the number stated by the NGC software survey of 368,000. I don't care about the mitigation...
More Windows Server 2008 Links
Planning and Deploying WS08 RODCs Windows SBS 2008 Help SCDP 2007 Feature Pack for WS08, SQL 2008, more WS08 Active Directory Features Overview Share this post:
WS08 RODC Compatability Update Issues
As posted on several blogs, including those by Brian McCann and Jane Lewis , this update resolves issues with XP and WS03 clients when they are within scope of DC management for a site using an WS08 RODC. The MS Support article is interesting (and humorous...
WS08 RODC Info and Tips
Ulf puts this so well, that I really can't add anything better to it. Just read this blog post . Share this post:
Windows Server 2008 set to escrow on Jan 16
Finally! Or I should rather say: "Thank God!" (pardon the expression if you happen to be an Atheist). I've been using Longhorn Server since Alpha build 4051, when it was horribly buggy and as unstable as a psych ward patient who ran out of meds. It has...