Nij.UK Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 I have recieved a copy of this, but not found the time to install it anywhere yet, im still trying to find a dummy machine that will take it... I was wondering as anyone else come accross a copy of this and installed it? How does it run, is it stable.... I will update this thread once i am scraped a machine to install it on
ico2 Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 might be interesting just to see how poor it is hope the graphics card requirements are less than the desktop version, noone is going to want to buy a big graphics card for a server.
Nij.UK Posted June 7, 2006 Author Posted June 7, 2006 well i cant comment on that at the moment, lol.... but i will let u know if it really is poor or if for once they have excelled themselves!
steve Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 Got this running on a 1.5Ghz 2Gb laptop. Installed almost all the functions - AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS, File Serving, Printing, etc. Its pretty much rock solid as far as I've tested it - not added any workstations to it though. The administration a little different (can't compare it to vista as i haven't looked at that yet). Seems to carry on from the new File Management mmc v 3 in 2003 R2. All other the stuff from 2003 R2 is in there. The GPMC has tonnes of new stuff in it too.
Nij.UK Posted June 7, 2006 Author Posted June 7, 2006 ive been unable to find a machine to install this on, so im going to have to resort to installing it on a laptop aswell.... hopefully i will be able to get on with this tomorrow and check it out see how it turns out....
john Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 I have it, been trying my spares, not really enough juice to run it on them or they dont like the SCSI controllers in them
NetworkGeezer Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 What's going on? Why wasn't I sent one. Surely I;'m not the only one who says "....Microsoft!!!" in aloud voice at least once a week.
john Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 I am a MSFT Partner as well as a registered Beta Tester, and have been for about 4 years now, so I am starting to get onto many good programs, but don't worry a public build will appear eventually....
NetworkGeezer Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 I thought Partner status was for ISVs, IHVs and resellers.
john Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 I do more work than just working for schools, if I just worked for a school I would not be able to afford to live! My car insurance is more than one months pay where I work So I do a lot of private work as well as I used to run my own business a few years back so I kept the status up etc.... But its worth it, I get the MSFT Action Pack subscription still for my personal evaluation use and its worth it as for my own use I would find Technet /+ too much really so that does the job. Also means from my own work I got contacts at MSFT who are great, and some good distys that I can pull a few strings with to get me good pricing for education and they don't mess me around as I know them well.
ico2 Posted June 7, 2006 Posted June 7, 2006 I am a MSFT Partner as well as a registered Beta Tester, and have been for about 4 years now, so I am starting to get onto many good programs, but don't worry a public build will appear eventually.... *Gets out the witch-hunter's kit* Btw: anyone got any good screenshots?
Nij.UK Posted June 8, 2006 Author Posted June 8, 2006 well i have just managed to get it installed on a laptop and im just messing around with it now the install looks like Mac, but i will try and post some screenshots of it up as soon as i can
eejit Posted November 15, 2006 Posted November 15, 2006 Bittorrent is 'public' enough for me. LOL Just getting myself one of these too. Does it need activation though?
Nij.UK Posted November 15, 2006 Author Posted November 15, 2006 the version that i installed needed an activation key, but there was no sign to say that it needed activating.... but dont quote me on this, as im not 100% sure
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