Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
In an earlier blog post I did promise you to talk a little bit about what's next, I did then already reveled that I did start playing with what's going to be next (Post-Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008). So I did start to play with "what's next" in November last year, and in fact - Yes Windows Server 2008 wasn't even RTM at that time. Now one year later, me and my team at TrueSec has been working very close around this release with Microsoft and is a part of the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Technology Adoption Program (TAP). So what does this mean? Well it's been a lot of sleepless nights of testing and verification that has been going on, around 35% of my Domain Controllers are already running on Pre-Beta/Alpha code for the Windows Server 2008 R2 release. There is a lot of interesting and cool features in this release, which I can't talk about in detail yet. I know there will be a lot of sessions on the topics that are new in this release in PDC2008 that did start yesterday, I except today’s keynote to have its focus on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, also next week I’m attending TechEd Europe 2008 in Barcelona and I will be working as ATE (Ask the Experts) there. If you attend please come by the Active Directory (Identity and Access) both and say hello. I know there is going to be event’s that will talk about new features in the next release "Windows Server 2008 R2" that's related to Active Directory.
So what can I mention about this release so far? It’s actually surprising fast and stable and most features planned for this release is already in, and works as you can except them to work at this stage, I'm looking forward to see how the world will adopt this release.