Server 2008 review, Part 1

This really shouldn’t be labeled as Part 1, as you’ll soon see. But I really did have the best intentions…

I received my copy of Server 2008 this week and was going to use some evening time and some time this weekend to play around with it a bit–especially with the changes in Terminal Services, which happens to be one of my favorite areas. So last night I began prepping a test system–nothing fancy, a P4-2.6 or 2.8, 865 chipset, 1.5GB RAM, mirrored WD Raptor SATA drives. Get the RAID set up, and get ready to boot from the CD. Except that, and I knew this, it is a DVD. I check the system–it’s only got a CDRW. Check all the other partial systems both in the house and in the garage (don’t ask, don’t tell)…and not a single DVD drive any more. Used to be that I couldn’t find CDRW’s, but perhaps that was just a long time ago!

So…sometime tonight I’ll probably be borrowing the DVD drive from the kid’s desktop for the install. And then I’ll even put it back. And post.

This really shouldn’t be labeled as Part 1, as you’ll soon see. But I really did have the best intentions… I received my copy of Server 2008 this week and was going to use some evening time and some time this weekend to play around with it a bit–especially with the changes in Terminal Services,…