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Steve-UK
Yeah, I know this is the 2003 Server newsgroup but there doesn't seem to be a
specific one for 2008 yet that I can find.
This Beta is totally rubbish. I mean it is appallingly bad. I don't expect
Betas to work 100% but I expect them to actually do something useful,
otherwise why bother with them?
First clue this thing might not be of any practical use was the build
number: 6001 - isn't that just one along from the Vista RTM?
I booted it up, and was presented with Server Manager, which is an
integrated MMC for common management tasks. I clicked on "Add Features" and
added in what I thought were some fairly innocuous features, consisting of
the "Desktop Experience" (Vista GUI add-ons), the admin tools (not the actual
services, just the tools) including the IIS admin tool, and a few other minor
bits and pieces and after a total age (on a quad-core PC with 4GB of RAM and
a SAS 15,000rpm drive) it asks me to re-boot. So I restart the computer and
then I'm presented with about 20 different error messages.
Server Manager is dead at this point, every time I try to do anything, MMC
crashes and I can get no further with it. There are no other additional
admin tools installed over and above what Vista has, despite my supposedly
installing them.
Not one to give up, I tried installing Adobe Reader 8.1 for Vista on it.
The installation crashes with a .NET Framework error message.
I can't use the MMC anymore so I go to the Run box and type in dcpromo -
after a couple of minutes I'm presented with some fantastically complex error
message.
Basically this Beta is completely useless. I can't get it to do the most
simple of tasks. It's just basically a broken version of Vista RTM with a
few things added into it that don't work.
And the RTM is supposed to be coming out in February?
Steve.
MCSA+Messaging 2003
specific one for 2008 yet that I can find.
This Beta is totally rubbish. I mean it is appallingly bad. I don't expect
Betas to work 100% but I expect them to actually do something useful,
otherwise why bother with them?
First clue this thing might not be of any practical use was the build
number: 6001 - isn't that just one along from the Vista RTM?
I booted it up, and was presented with Server Manager, which is an
integrated MMC for common management tasks. I clicked on "Add Features" and
added in what I thought were some fairly innocuous features, consisting of
the "Desktop Experience" (Vista GUI add-ons), the admin tools (not the actual
services, just the tools) including the IIS admin tool, and a few other minor
bits and pieces and after a total age (on a quad-core PC with 4GB of RAM and
a SAS 15,000rpm drive) it asks me to re-boot. So I restart the computer and
then I'm presented with about 20 different error messages.
Server Manager is dead at this point, every time I try to do anything, MMC
crashes and I can get no further with it. There are no other additional
admin tools installed over and above what Vista has, despite my supposedly
installing them.
Not one to give up, I tried installing Adobe Reader 8.1 for Vista on it.
The installation crashes with a .NET Framework error message.
I can't use the MMC anymore so I go to the Run box and type in dcpromo -
after a couple of minutes I'm presented with some fantastically complex error
message.
Basically this Beta is completely useless. I can't get it to do the most
simple of tasks. It's just basically a broken version of Vista RTM with a
few things added into it that don't work.
And the RTM is supposed to be coming out in February?
Steve.
MCSA+Messaging 2003