What are you seeing as far as peoples migration plans for Windows Server 2008?
Don Jones: They are either looking at it and planning or they have put a couple of servers in production to see how it goes. People are definitely actively engaged. I’ve only had a couple of companies that have completed a migration. More on Windows Server 2008 New Windows Server 2008 backup tool improves disaster recovery Updating your Windows configuration management process PowerShell in Windows 2008: A backdoor to malware? [Windows Server 2008] lives alongside [Windows Server] 2003 so well that there isn’t a lot of pressure to do a whole migration. So people are just picking spots that Windows Server 2008 can solve and focusing on that. Where are some of those spots? Jones: Infrastructure. DNS servers [and] DHCP servers are areas they’re looking to address and Server Core really makes that possible. Virtualization is another big one that people are looking at for things like legacy applications. [For] companies that are widely distributed, Active Directory and the read-only domain
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