Windows Server 2012

Anyone here stand up Server 2012 yet? I have only seen it once and I am not impressed. From what I was told it no longer supports any 32 bit apps.

 

I think it does support 32 bit apps but it doesn't support 32 bit drivers or ODBC. They're deprecated.

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/38581-Windows-Server-2012-And-64-bit-Questions

 

I have a couple lab 2012 VMs. One full install and one server core, but nothing in production yet. I doubt we will anytime soon since we finaly just killed off the last win 2000 server. Seems to me you have to get used to remote admin tools or powershell to work with 2012. The colors in the gui look like something my 4yo would have picked out.

 

That was my first impression of 2012, I also heard that you do not have to run dcpromo anymore on a new DC. I will have to see if we have any licenses for 2012 so I can spin up a VM as well, thanks for the responses guys.

 

This is correct. Make sure you read up ahead of time if you're going to use a mixed 2008/2012 environment using the 2012 as a DC. There are a few hurdles in such a scenario.