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Sneak Peek at Windows Server 2008
stinkymountain writes to tell us that NetworkWorld got their hands on Microsoft's latest addition to the server OS market and had a chance to poke around inside Windows Server 2008. It seems that the new release is a vast improvement over older versions in both security and performance but still lacking in several key areas. "There's even a minimalist installation called Windows Server Core that can run various server roles (such as DNS, DHCP, Active Directory components) but not applications (like SQL Server or IIS dynamic pages). It's otherwise a scripted host system for headless operations. There's no GUI front end to a Windows Server Core box, but it is managed by a command line interface (CLI), scripts, remotely via System Manager or other management applications that support Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), or by Remote Terminal Services. It's also a potential resource-slimmed substrate for Hyper-V and virtualization architectures."
These are all great ideas but I would've liked to have seen them a decade or more ago.
Even so, better late than never.
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so you add or remove / trun it on or off at any time with out havening to reinstall widnows server.
anybody know?
well, I guess imitation is the best form of flattery
(yes, I know that some Windows admins can use a CLI for nearly anything that'll run on one, but I'm almost willing to wager that the majority do not).
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
so it's like linux 10 years ago? except not as good? and more money?
I would have got a first post, but it BSODed on me.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You must have a ridiculously shitty car.
All while being naked to the world.
I don't know where you work, but at my job I don't have that nudity clause. In fact I'm pretty sure if I turned up to work naked I'd be fired. That's okay though because I'd rather quit than be around some of my coworkers naked.
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Absolutely, MS is well known for their lean, re-usable code which runs anything from watches, Zunes, XBOXes, Origami and mobile phones. It's a program once, use anywhere strategy that's been working quite well for them.
nice, the captcha is "exploit"
you got that right.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Lucky for you then, huh? ;)
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
There will certainly be cliTS in the new Windows, but no male sysadmin will be able to find them...
Windows core server sounds a lot like Unix, only without the 25+ year history and renowned stability record... why did we need this again? /supposed to be funny, but headache causing tumors in funny region
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Better, perhaps, to mod GP "flambe"?
But, businesses ARE embedded, umm, in bed, with microsoft. They just haven't processed the depths of penetrations...
Um, wait... hold that thought...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Actually this isn't anything new for Microsoft, in fact they've gone so far as to require editing your system DLLs with a hex editor to adjust basic network configuration settings. And people think us linux hackers are amazing compiling source code, how about those windows guys reverse engineering binary code in DLLS.
I feel OpenVMS needs to die. Considering the only actively maintained processor architecture for it is now Itanium, it's a great day for it to die.
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And CE + ME + NT == CEMENT. Dense like a brick.
But there is Vista CEMENT. Even denser. Very CEMENT. ---- Posted anonymously, because M$ trolls are out like bats in Arkansas.
Has Bill Gates ever predicted anything even remotely correctly?
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.