Day three of TechEd has just finished with brings the event to an end. We were all a little bit weary after the brilliant TechFest last night but we still managed to get in a couple of good sessions.
The Active Directory session from Brian Puhl was quite interesting as he went through the details of the Read Only Domain Controller (RODC) and some of the Server Core stuff too. Server Core is a method of installing Longhorn Server so that it has no gui at all – just the command prompt. So I find it odd that Microsoft’s new PowerShell scripting won’t be able to run on Server Core as it doesn’t support the dot net framework.
The Exchange sessions today were good too and we got a live demo of the new clustering and high availability options in Exchange 2007. This will be interesting to follow as there are a couple of third-party companies like XOSoft and Neverfail that will compete directly with this new technology.
Unfortunately I didn’t win one of the XBox 360’s 
, so I guess I’ll be buying a PS3 when it comes out – as long as the NZ prices are too ridiculous.
Tags: teched, techfest, teched-nz, active-directory, rodc, server-core, powershell, dot-net, exchange, exchange-2007, xbox
> So I find it odd that Microsoft’s new PowerShell scripting won’t be able to run on Server Core as it doesn’t support the dot net framework.
Windows had to be refactored to produce Server Core. The .NET libraries have to be similarly refactored to support Server Core. If you install the .NET libraries as-is, they depend upon most of the Windows libraries (many of which do are not installed in Server Core). That’s what the issue is.
Make any more sense?
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell/Aspen Architect
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Thanks for commenting Jeffrey. I could understand the limitation from an architectural point of view, but it seems odd that Microsoft won’t/can’t develop a work-around that would allow the necessary libraries to be installed to get PowerShell working. I was under the impression that PowerShell was going to be the primary method of command-line management in the future…
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