Update: The launch date of Windows Server 2008 is official now.
Update2: Rumors about the release date of Windows Server 2008.

Some new sites are speculating that the release of Windows Server 2008 might be delayed. The Windows Server Division Weblog meanwhile denied these claims. Microsoft is still planning to release Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing in the second half of 2007.

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Microsoft just announced that Windows Server 2008 Server Core will be able to run IIS7 (Internet Information Server 7.0) as a server role. This isn’t yet possible with Server Core Beta 3 which I am currently testing. It only supports typical Intranet roles like file server, DHCP, and Active Directory Services. Interestingly, Microsoft added this new role due to customers’ demand.

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I am somehow surprised how many Google users come to my blog searching for Vista keyboard shortcuts. It seems it is widely unknown that Vista has an excellent help file. It lists all shortcut keys. Since I can’t link to this list, I just copied all shortcuts to this post.

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Active Directory auditing, i.e. the logging of directory service accesses, is already possible with Window Server 2000/2003. Windows Server 2008 extends the auditing capabilities of Windows Server 2003 in several interesting ways. You can use this feature, if you have to track down errors or security issues.

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Just in case you didn’t watch it yet, these are the highlights of the interview of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Parts of it are quite funny. It is interesting to see how much details they can recall about their early products.

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Tom Shinder has a detailed article about the new features of Service Pack 3 for ISA Server 2004, Microsoft’s gateway firewall. Some of them are really quite useful.

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