Nov 20 2007

Well done Mauricio and Geekzone

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Mauricio has just completed the upgrade of the Geekzone site and it is now running on Windows Server 2008 (RC0, I’m assuming.) This is a good showcase for Microsoft as Geekzone is in the top 15 NZ sites for unique visitors, according to Mauricio. Microsoft have already moved 75% of their servers on to Windows Server 2008 which shows the confidence they have in the new version.

I’m genuinely excited about Server 2008, and every day I learn about new features that will benefit all sizes of organisations. Today, at the monthly Unplugged event at Microsoft in Wellington, Nathan showed off the new Group Policy Preferences which almost completely remove the need for login scripts. This is a feature that was acquired by Microsoft when they purchased Desktop Standard, so it’s nice to see it being released for free as part of the operating system.

I have the latest build and will be testing it out over the next week, including the newly-announced virtualisation role – now called Hyper-V. I’m also hoping to test out the Windows Essentials Business Server product which was code-named ‘Centro’ (much cooler name) up until recently.

Update: Mauricio got a shout out on the Windows Server blog

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