Installed Windows Server ™ Code Name “Longhorn” for the first time. I forget why this is supposed to be exciting. It’s Vista. Minus the Aero theme. Plus some new wizards for managing “Features” and “Roles.” Yawn. The “Core” editions do not currently support IIS or SQL Server. Which is probably for the better, the amount of Support and Customer education it would require makes me cringe…
Longhorn does install pretty fast, ~7 minutes from boot to log on screen vs ~15 minutes for an unattended Windows 2003 install on our new ESX server.
I put some screenshots up on Flickr…
