| More On February 2007 CTP Of Windows Server "Longhorn" |
| Thursday, 22 February 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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"The February 2007 CTP is another milestone on the march to Beta 3, which is still on track for the first half of this year, and it includes a number of enhancements to existing server roles and features, plus some UI changes – most notably in the Server Manager tool. Windows Firewall is on by default for new installations; there is now a separate, fully-configurable Application Server role; and we’ve added a bunch of new role services and features including (get ready to cheer) Remote Server Administration Tools (hurray!). These tools allow you to manage the roles and features on another Windows Server “Longhorn” box – up until now, you had to install those roles and features on the local server before you could get the tools to perform remote management. Only a few tools are provided with this build (Active Directory Certificate Services, IIS 7.0, Terminal Services, Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing), but there are more on the way. Finally, for you Server Core fans out there (and who isn’t?), you’ll be excited to hear that Print Server and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services are now available roles for Server Core installations. And with more roles and features available to add to your Server Core installation, it will be handy to have the new oclist.exe command line utility that keeps track of which roles and features are installed. We expect to release one more CTP before Beta 3 and we hope to have it soon. In the meantime, feel free to post a comment and let us know how we’re doing." Read the entire article here.
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