Windows Server 2008 is on its way. With the first release candidate in the pipeline, it shouldn"t be long before release to manufacturing and general availability.
With such a long development time (it"s the first new Windows Server OS since 2003,) the showstopping new features have been well publicized: Most IT pros are familiar with at least some of the details of Server Core, PowerShell and Windows Server Virtualization (codenamed Viridian). But Windows 2008 includes a lot more than those headliners.
To that end, we"re presenting the Top 10 overlooked features of Windows 2008. We spoke with Ward Ralston, senior technical product manager for Windows Server, to help us build our list. These items haven"t garnered the same kind of press attention, hype and word-of-mouth as the others, but they"re nonetheless important -- maybe very important -- to your network. Today we"ll present the first five, and Monday the next five.