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Windows Server 2012 GA

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Hey folks, Ned here again to tell you what you probably already know: Windows Server 2012 is now generally available:

I don’t often recommend “vision” posts, but Satya Nadella – President of Server and Tools – explains why we made the more radical changes in Windows Server 2012. Rather than start with the opening line, I’ll quote from the finish:

In the 1990s, Microsoft saw the need to democratize computing and made client/server computing available at scale, to customers of all sizes. Today, our goal is to do the same for cloud computing with Windows Server 2012.

On a more personal note: Mike Stephens, Joseph Conway, Tim Quinn, Chuck Timon, Don Geddes, and I dedicated two years to understanding, testing, bug stomping, design change requesting, documenting, and teaching Windows Server 2012. Another couple dozen senior support folks – such as our very own Warren Williams - spent the last year working with customers to track down issues and get feedback. Your feedback. You will see things in Directory Services that were requested through this blog.

Having worked on a number of pre-release products, this is the most Support involvement in any Windows operating system I have ever seen. When combined with numerous customer and field contributions, I believe that Windows Server 2012 is the most capable, dependable, and supportable product we’ve ever made. I hope you agree.

- Ned “also, any DS issues you find were missed by Mike, not me” Pyle

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  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    Super excited about the new version of server, and i've been doing some mock-ups of core services at home and loving how well it works, and that was the beta stuff! Also, trying to get into the windows-server-launch.com event now, but I think the servers are overwhelmed...that's a good thing i hope ;-) On a completely unrelated note to 2012, we just rolled our AD to functional 2003 and browsing articles on your blog, but was wondering if there were some gotcha's that you have outlined somewhere to look out for. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    Yes, the launch site appears to be buried. One of those "good problems", I reckon. Check out Jonathan's treatise on this: blogs.technet.com/.../what-is-the-impact-of-upgrading-the-domain-or-forest-functional-level.aspx

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    Crikey. Even AskDS is starting to see congestion-related performance. :)  

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    Mad props, DS team.  This is excited as I've ever been for a new version of Windows Server, and everyone around me knows it, for better or worse.  :)

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    September 04, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    I agree with and 2nd Ryan's comment 100%...  can't wait to start using 2012 in production and Win8 at home (especially waiting for new tablet hardware to come out).

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    September 04, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    The launch site went away...boo

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    runs off to upgrade his home virtualization host to Hyper-V Server 2012

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    @Jeffrey There are a couple things to consider when raising the DFL to 2008 or 2008 R2. When you raise the DFL to 2008 we change the krbtgt password I have seen this break a few third party apps. blogs.technet.com/.../a-few-things-you-should-know-about-raising-the-dfl-and-or-ffl-to-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx Another PFE Glenn LeCheminant had a running blog of various items. blogs.technet.com/.../w2k3-to-w2k8-active-directory-upgrade-considerations.aspx Most of the changes are at the OS level itself and not at the DFL or FFL. A lot of work has been done to decouple new features from FFL and DFL requirements of course there are exceptions. DFS-R is per domain. So you will do that on a per domain basis after you raise the DFL of that domain to 2008 or higher.

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2012
    Congrats to all -- time to ask again -- is there some ADAC SDK / documentation I'm missing or is it yet unpublished?  Also, we need RSAT :)

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    September 04, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2012
    It looks like they might not be open yet? connect.microsoft.com/directory connect.microsoft.com/directory Well, at least it doesn't look like anything appropriate to what you were looking for is available yet anyway...

  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2012
    @Gallwapa - both of your concerns about RSAT and ADAC are being addressed. I can't speak to ETAs, of course. When it comes to User Experience feedback like taskbar, social (TechNet Forums) is the way to go. That's where the devs are watching, and believe me - watching very carefully, even if they are not replying. If you have a Premier contract, definitely report through your TAM as well.

  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2012
    It's good to know they are watching.  Although I do feel a little badly for them having to chew through some of the really long ranting passionate posts that always seem to come up.  I just mean it has to be hard to get through everything out there due to the volume of some of the content.

  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2012
    They weren't drafted! MS is an all-volunteer army. ;-)

  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2012
    Well in that case, I retract my statement.  They knew what they were signing up for.  :D