{"id":8997,"date":"2008-01-05T15:25:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2008-01-05T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"windows-server-2008-here-it-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8997","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2008: Here It Comes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserver2008\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Windows Server 2008<\/a> is nearly here.\u00a0 I&#8217;d already heard RTM would be early February and general availability would be early March.\u00a0 MSDN, TechNet and Volume License subscribers would all have download access within a couple of weeks of RTM.\u00a0 Bink has <a href=\"http:\/\/bink.nu\/news\/windows-server-2008-is-in-escrow-rtm-build-planned-january-16th.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirmed<\/a> that W2008&#8217;s source code will be\u00a0frozen in preparation for RTM on January 16th.\u00a0 You can expect launch parties to be held by Microsoft in\u00a0your local area in the coming 2 months.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been asked by a contact in Microsoft to start blogging a bit about Windows Server 2008.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try talk about what to look for.\u00a0 Unlike some of my previous efforts with SCOM 2007, WSUS\u00a03.0\u00a0and FCS, I&#8217;m not going to be able to spend loads of time getting into deep detail for another couple of months.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got another project on going that will eat up that time.\u00a0 But I will talk about what you should be looking forward to and researching, in other words, how to answer that age old question &quot;why should I upgrade?&quot;.\u00a0 There&#8217;s plenty of good reasons.\u00a0 I do have some content already written that appears to be\u00a0unwanted at the moment.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll see if I can convert that and post it in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Also, next week will see me kicking off the work to get the Windows Server 2008 User Group (Ireland) off the ground.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be meeting our sponsor to get things moving.\u00a0 Anyone who is interested in attending or\u00a0contributing should contact me on website &lt;at&gt; highwaycsl &lt;dot&gt; com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server 2008 is nearly here.\u00a0 I&#8217;d already heard RTM would be early February and general availability would be early March.\u00a0 MSDN, TechNet and Volume License subscribers would all have download access within a couple of weeks of RTM.\u00a0 Bink has confirmed that W2008&#8217;s source code will be\u00a0frozen in preparation for RTM on January 16th.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Server 2008: Here It Comes!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}