I received my Windows 2008 Server Resource kit today, but it was somewhat more ‘compact’ that I was led to believe. The mockups showed a box about 2 foot long and purporting to have 6600+ pages in 6 books, but in reality it was a slimmer 8 inches (20cm) and had about 4000 pages in 6 books. Apparently the rest of the pages are there on the CDROM, but they never made it to print. This is quite disappointing for a publication costing $249. A quick skim through the volumes reveals a wide range of gaps in the content I would have expected, certainly not up to the standard of the Windows 2000 Resource kit. So be warned!
It contains
- IIS 7 ResKit (779 pages)
- Windows Admin ResKit (710 pages)
- PowerShell Scripting Guide (693 pages)
- Active Directory ResKit (827 pages)
- NAP Guide (816 pages)
- Security ResKit (476 pages)
- CDROM
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I’ve upgraded my main server to the latest Windows Server 2008 build and installed Hyper-V. This box is Quad core with 4GB so it should be fine for running the Hyper-V environment. Hyper-V is an exciting update since it levearges the underlying hardware VM capabilities. For interest I just tried running Windows XP in VirtualPC under Windows XP under a Hyper-V session, and it works! and is surprinsingly fast, or at least no slower than natively.
What is amazing to me is that this relatively cheap commodity box combined with the Windows 2008/Hyper-V combo is akin to a mainframe from 10 years ago, think S/390 with MVS or VM/CMS which would have cost millions.
Anyway, as I find more info I’ll report it here, but its looking good.
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I couldn’t help myself … I installed Longhorn Server 6001 in a VM to see what’s new. One of the cool things for Vista and Longhorn server is that you don’t have to enter a valid key any more and it will keep working for 30 days, which is coincidentally my normal rebuild schedule. Anyway the WIM in this build includes Enterprise and Enterprise Core SKU’s and I installed the full fat Enterprise version.
Install was quick, about 20 minutes and it seems to have inherited some UI tidy up and icons from Vista. At rest memory usage is ~345MB.
More to follow soon …
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MS just posted a new Longhorn Server update, build 6001-16406-061208-1900. Hopefully this will be in sync with the Vista updates. Longhorn Server release should coincide with the availability of Vista SP1, keeping the kernels in sync. Won’t have a chance to look at this until after xmas now …
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