It’s all over social media this morning; You can download WSSC 2012 R2 (That’s WS2012 R2 and SC/SysCtr 2012 R2) from TechNet and MSDN right now. The previews for the following are available now:
- Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
- Windows server 2012 R2 Datacenter
- System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (x86 and x64)
- System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager (x86 and x64)
- System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (x86 and x64)
- System Center 2012 R2 App Controller (x86 and x64)
- System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager (x86 and x64)
- System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator (x86 and x64)
- System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (x86 and x64)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Core
SQL Server 2014 CTP1 is also up there for you to test.
Remember that these are preview releases – that’s like a beta (the product is not finished and has no support unless you are in a MSFT supervised TAP program) but without the feedback mechanism of a beta. Do not use these preview releases in production!
I have the bits downloading now. I’m on a customer site today so I don’t know if I’ll be deploying the bits or not until tomorrow.