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Windows Server “8” Beta announcements, availability (updated)

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Hi all, Ned here. For those who spent the day in a coma, Windows Server “8” Beta and Windows 8 CP are out. Make sure you start by visiting Bill Laing’s announcement on the Windows Server Blog. This morning he formally announced the availability of Windows Server “8” Beta and outlined some of the design philosophies in a brief post.

Next, we have a new kind of document we call the “Understand and Troubleshoot” guides, which are designed to explain the inner workings of new features and how to troubleshoot them. You may recognize some of the authors (you know I hate link lists, but in this case I’ll make an exception).

There are also “Test Lab Guides” and TechNet docs that introduce and demonstrate features, as well as assist with deployment.

And a reminder - send all your IT Pro feedback to the links below. People are definitely listening.

I know some of you are looking forward to the typical in-depth and honest AskDS beta content you’ve read for the past five years - you’re IT professionals and chomping at the bit to start learning about all the new enterprise features. Well, we’re still muzzled here and not allowed to discuss anything. Hang in there; I’m hopeful it won’t be too much longer.

- Ned “the gimp” Pyle

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 29, 2012
    What is your favorite AD feature in Windows 8?  Not sure if you can comment on that.  DAC looks really cool...could be a game changer.

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2012
    Definitely the ADDSDeployment powershell.

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2012
    It's too bad that they communication restriction is still in place, but hey...  I for one am glad to see a bunch of AskDS names appearing on the documents above!  Great work guys!  Meanwhile we'll just wait patiently until you get the all clear to unleash some Win8 articles.  At least we have the OS in the wild to play with until then.

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2012
    Will the noun "goo" appear in said documents? :)

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2012
    @Ryan, a cursory search of the word goo and nubbin resulted in zero hits.  :(  Reading the 400 page document would feel more like reading a blog post if they were in there.  Just sayin'

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2012
    I had to be more subtle. :-P

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2012
    Great job! This guide's content and format is really useful. Just one feedback: am i missing something or there are some links pointing to MS internal resources? (i.e. page #3 - More Information block - URL for Dynamic Access Control,  Kerberos Constrained Delegation Across Domains and Group Managed Service Accounts  point to mail.microsoft.com/owa/redirect...

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2012
    How tiresome. I see that FrancT, thanks; I'll get it fixed.

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2012
    Here's to hoping that ADAC is finally extensible...(really need rapid development not tied to OS releases for some stuff...)

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2012
    Account lockout is evil and I always recommend against it. Not that it matters in this case - that particular account cannot be locked out. :)