So far:
- It detects most of the drivers out of the box except intel bus thingy, BT, and my Creative Webcam Live. I was able to install intel chipset driver and BT driver, but it seems that creative no longer suppoert Webcam Live.
- It can use most of the vista 64 bit drivers.
- Hyper-V works, but needs winxp sp3 to install integrated pack.
- My Netgear print server works, added the tcp/ip port manually by copying the values from xp. My Brother HL-2040 driver is built in.
- http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/ is a good resource
- So far seems quite stable and snappy. I think winxp is still faster on my machine, but server 2008 definitely feels faster than Vista (c2d e6850 + 4gb ram)
- Have trouble activating, kept getting error code 0x800723B DNS name does not exist. Update: for some reason after I changed the product key (same one I entered when I installed) it activated successfully. I also found a potential solution here.
- List of programs (will update as I go along)
- Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition for Vista 64 bit (v10.2.0.298) works. Had to use my school's script to get live update working
- Firefox 3 works, flash plug in also works
- Live Messenger works, but need to get the offline installer. The integrated live installer won't install on server OS
- Winrar 3.62 works
- Open PCMan 2007 (a telnet/BBS client) works
- Nero 7 Ultra Edition (7.8.5.0) works
- Picasa2 2.7
- uTorrent 1.8 beta (build 10853)
- KM player. Works, but computer becomes a bit slow when playing videos.
- DVDfab HD Decrypter 5.0.3.0
- Itunes 7.6 (Had to disable Data Execution Prevention for AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe)
- Adobe acrobat reader 8.1.2
- Adobe acrobat 8 (works after installing 8.1.x updates. The installer looks for AdobePDF.dll on vista cd-rom at the end, just cancel it and install the updates. See here for more details)
- Visual Studio 2008
3 comments:
have you tried avg or avast on 2008 x64? Also, I recommend Infrarecorder x64 (infrarecorder.sourceforge.net) over Nero. I'm going to build a list of freeware for x86 and x64.
i've not tried other antivirus software since I can get Norton for free. But thanks for the tip on the free recording software.
If you are using the MSDN downloaded version of Windows Server 2008, that is a VLK iso and by default looks for an activation server. When you change your key it changes to a MAK and then works. I had a similar problem. You can check out the details here.
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