Windows Server 2008 is nearly here. I’d already heard RTM would be early February and general availability would be early March. MSDN, TechNet and Volume License subscribers would all have download access within a couple of weeks of RTM. Bink has confirmed that W2008’s source code will be frozen in preparation for RTM on January 16th. You can expect launch parties to be held by Microsoft in your local area in the coming 2 months.
I’ve been asked by a contact in Microsoft to start blogging a bit about Windows Server 2008. I’m going to try talk about what to look for. Unlike some of my previous efforts with SCOM 2007, WSUS 3.0 and FCS, I’m not going to be able to spend loads of time getting into deep detail for another couple of months. I’ve got another project on going that will eat up that time. But I will talk about what you should be looking forward to and researching, in other words, how to answer that age old question "why should I upgrade?". There’s plenty of good reasons. I do have some content already written that appears to be unwanted at the moment. I’ll see if I can convert that and post it in the next few days.
Also, next week will see me kicking off the work to get the Windows Server 2008 User Group (Ireland) off the ground. I’ll be meeting our sponsor to get things moving. Anyone who is interested in attending or contributing should contact me on website <at> highwaycsl <dot> com.