RSSWindows Server 2008 Hits 100,000 Downloads
By the Betanews Staff | Published May 15, 2007, 3:03 PM
Along with officially naming the product to little surprise, Microsoft said at WinHEC in Los Angeles Tuesday that Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 3 had been downloaded over 100,000 times in just three weeks. Now known as Windows Server 2008, the release will drive the next-generation of hardware innovation, said Bill Gates.
New in Windows Server 2008 will be built-in virtualization technology (although its feature set was cut last week), the Server Core installation option that removes the graphical user interface, Server Manager, Internet Information Services (IIS 7.0) and Windows PowerShell. Microsoft is already working with manufacturers to ensure hardware will be available to help drive adoption of the new server operating system.
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|I want test New Version Server anh preview the Windows Server 2008 have some New.
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|Woot.
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|Server 2008 definitely sounds like an amazing advancement. Let's hope that MS takes the same modular approach to the next version of windows after Vista. Love the idea of being able to stack only what I want and nothing more.
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|I want to have a try
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|win 2003 server has been very stable for us we have over 188 dell servers. We are now finally seeing 2000 servers fail but they are 5 years old in a warm server room.
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|We mostly skipped Server 2003 (I've always felt underwhelmed by it, however will look seriously at 2008. We have servers approaching 7 years age now. :)
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|7 years? Why on earth would you keep them for that long? 5 years is about the max I'd go.
I hope you have 24x7x4 warranty on them.
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|I feel your pain. Of 3 servers I bought in 1999, only one has not died (running NT4 and Notes R4). I was hoping I'd be getting Win 2008 by the end of this year and migrate it to a VM... I just sat through a conference about features that now probably won't show up for over a year. Now I think I'm going to give Xen another look.
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|No, why would we? We have redundant everything and everything works great. It's probably the most reliable server I've ever used. (Model: HP NetServer LH 3000 U3)
One drive failure in 7 years (out of 11 installed since 2000)
It has survived a move across town and performs great.
The only reason we're migrating away is to get some of the cooler features of 2008.
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|Unless by redundant, you mean clustered, then not everything is redundant.
I do not trust hardware when it reaches that age. Plus you are obviously running on 2000, which is no longer supported. Something else I wouldn't never do.
What happens if you DID have a major issue, CEO says - Why did we have this issue? Why were we down for a day? You respond "Because our servers are 7 years old and running unsupported software." Not a great situation.
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|You don't need clustered to have reasonable uptime. We of course have other AD Servers, so upon failure people still can do everything they need to do to get their job done.
2000 is supported security wise, it's just not having features added.
And don't think clustered saves your ass. I've seen nodes fail and take out the entire cluster, or in a disaster where a cluster is located in an equivalent area.
Besides, this myth that "newer" equipment is somehow more reliable than older equipment is silly. As stated, 11 drives, 99.99% uptime (more if we hadn't moved in 2005) and she is humming along quite nicely. We have 9 other servers and several of them have failed more often, multiple times.
Don't fix what ain't broke.
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|I really wish they would have left the user interface alone. It looks like Vista which upsets me. Other than that, it looks pretty solid so far.
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|The Server and Client OS's share codebase and have for over a decade. And did you complain about server 2003 looking like XP, or did you just makes themes service disabled?
Having the client and server OS's share codebase simplifies management/coding when it comes time for patchtime... amongst other reasons...
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|Fill me in on what I can do without the GUI. I can't run Exchange. I can't run the Monad Power Shell because it requires .NET 3.0 which in-turn requires a GUI. I can't run IIS because of the management interface.
Unless, MS has plans to be able to control 100% IIS and Exchange and SQL Server from a workstation, I see limited use for the GUI-less Server.
I guess in the "old-days" I ran Domino on GUI-less servers with a minimal command set. Most of the control was from an admin console on my desk. Could Exchange/IIS/SQL be retro-fitted to do the same.
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|The headless "roles" for Win2008 are going to be:
* Active Directory
* Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
* DNS
* DHCP
* File/Print
* Windows Media Services
* Terminal Services Easy Print, Remote App, and Gateway
* Virtualization host
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|Thanks. I guess you won't be able to call the headless install an app server at this time.
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|Shouldn't that be Server, not Sever? Talk about 2,008 casualties. :>
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|Finally Microsoft made an option to take out the GUI. I hope they also took out the games on this version too that were in the O/S sense windows 95. I mean really, plays solitare on there windows server :)
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|You gotta have something to do when creating an Active Directory infrastructure. ;-)
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