First published on TECHNET on Jan 09, 2008
A lot of good stuff is going on in Seattle these days, Seahawks have made it to the playoffs, we have actually been seeing some sunshine in month of January and Windows Server 2008 aka Longhorn is picking up a lot of good buzz at least that’s what I hear from the few articles I have been reading. I wanted to update everyone on our plans to support Windows Server 2008 for MOM 2005, OpsMgr 2007 and SCE. Below, I refer to “all roles” which includes DB, DW, RMS, MS, Console, Gateway, Reporting Server, Web Console, ACS DB and ACS Collector. For most of the support statement below we mention 90 days after the of Windows Server 2008 the reason for this is in the past the OS team has made last minute changes that have broken our installs which have required us to ship a QFE. So far, I do not believe we will need any QFE’s or SP to support W2K8 but we are waiting on the final build to run our full test pass. So there is a good possibility especially for our agent that we will support W2K8 earlier than the 90 days after they ship which we have committed.
W2K8 Server Core is a new SKU that has no UI and is a stripped down version of the OS where you can add the roles you need. The only way to install other software is to use the command prompt window. The roles that come out of the box for the Server Core SKU can be found
here
.
Microsoft’s Virtualization technology which is now integrated as part of the OS is called Hyper-V. Hyper-V is currently scheduled to be available 180 days after the release of W2K8 and we will support it 90days after that.
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Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 with SP1
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Windows Server 2008
(STD, ENT, DATA, WEB)
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Windows Server 2008
(Server Core)
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Windows Server 2008
with
Hyper-V
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All Roles
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Not Supported
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Not Supported
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Not Supported
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Agent
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RTM + 90days
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RTM + 90days
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RTM + 90days
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Recommendations for MOM 2005:
I would not waste my time trying to install MOM 2005 SP1 on W2K8. There are a number of architectural changes in the operating system such as the way IIS works in W2K8 that I don’t see MOM 2005 SP1 working on W2K8. This given I haven’t tried to run MOM 2005 SP1 on W2K8 so if anyone has tried and was successful please let us know. The agent currently runs on W2K8 but we are waiting on the official RTM build to run a final test pass.
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Operations Manager 2007 with SP1
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Windows Server 2008
(STD, ENT, DATA, WEB)
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Windows Server 2008
(Server Core)
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Windows Server 2008
with
Hyper-V
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All Roles
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RTM + 90days
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Not Supported
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RTM + 90days
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Agent
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RTM + 90days
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RTM + 90days
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RTM + 90days
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Recommendations for OpsMgr 2007:
I have tried this out myself and was able to install the DB, DW, RMS, Gateway and Console without any issues I had to use a hack for installing the Reporting Server role which I have blogged about in one of my previous articles. Andrzej Lipka one of our consultants recently brought it to my notice that .Net Framework 3.0 is not a part of the server core SKU and cannot be added to the OS either and therefore we cannot support our core roles on .Net 3.0.
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System Center Essentials with SP1
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Windows Server 2008
(STD, ENT, DATA, WEB)
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Windows Server 2008
(Server Core)
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Windows Server 2008
with
Hyper-V
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All Roles
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RTM + 90days
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Not Supported
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RTM + 90days
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Agent
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RTM + 90days
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RTM + 90days
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RTM + 90days
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Recommendations for SCE:
Make sure to get a beefy box to run SCE and W2K8. I don’t recommend using anything under 4GB of RAM if you are running SCE and W2K8.
Satya Vel | Program Manager | System Center |
