2008 Server review

JonWitte · 26th October 2007

some light reading

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/...2008_reviewed/

Row · 6th February 2008

Downloaded and installed datacenter_enterprise_standard_x64_dvd.

Installed lightening fast.

Love the fact now it can really support Virtual Machines across a network.

Still testing but so far i'm very impressed.

dabHosts · 7th February 2008

How does it handle group policies with mixed clients, W2K, XP and Vista?

Cranky · 7th February 2008

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Originally Posted by Row

Downloaded and installed datacenter_enterprise_standard_x64_dvd.

Installed lightening fast.

I was running it on my desktop in the office for a week or two waiting on Vista media, I couldn't believe how quickly it installed!

JamesSykes · 8th February 2008

So how many here are actually going to use it in production? Or shall we wait for the first service pack like every other MS operating system?

aXeR · 8th February 2008

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Originally Posted by JamesSykes

Or shall we wait for the first service pack like every other MS operating system?

I think that's always wise with MS James :P

markcastle · 8th February 2008

If you want to wait for service packs and lose out on customers that are demanding to use the new OS now then thats your loss.

JamesSykes · 8th February 2008

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Originally Posted by markcastle

If you want to wait for service packs and lose out on customers that are demanding to use the new OS now then thats your loss.

Of course. Paying customers always get what they want! I was more referring to internal systems and the such.

markcastle · 8th February 2008

Ah ok. I guess it depends on whether or not you really want to get to know the OS... if you support Windows Servers then it's likely that you really do need to get to know it inside out.

JamesSykes · 8th February 2008

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Originally Posted by markcastle

Ah ok. I guess it depends on whether or not you really want to get to know the OS... if you support Windows Servers then it's likely that you really do need to get to know it inside out.

I'll be setting one up to play with and bench mark and so forth but I was asking if anyone here was planning on putting it in production any time soon mark

luke · 8th February 2008

At $dayjob, we are going to upgrade our main servers in the office that run a lot of virtualized stuff, for our internal systems. We have no plans to upgrade / install any new systems for customers with 2008 yet tho!

I do hope the virtualization of linux is improved in 2008, I'm tired of rebooting my development VMs every day or so, I'd prob use them a lot more if it wasn't for this issue!

othellotech · 8th February 2008

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Originally Posted by luke

I do hope the virtualization of linux is improved in 2008, I'm tired of rebooting my development VMs every day or so, I'd prob use them a lot more if it wasn't for this issue!

Sounds like you're using the wrong Virtualisation Technology
We have VPS clients with uptime in the 120+ days range.

luke · 9th February 2008

I've looked at using Xen myself, but for what were using the Windows stuff for, it does its job darn well. So why b0rk it? :-)