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Documentation on TechNet states that there are cmdlets for managing DHCP servers on Windows 2008 R2.  This appears to be an error as there is no sign of them after installing DHCP.

I am currently using a HP G60 laptop.  Runs Windows 7 very well. I created a dual boot environment so I could install Windows 2008 R2 and to my pleasant surprise found Hyper-V runs on it.  Need to enable virtualisation in the BIOS but apart from that slight hiccup it installs and works very well.  Once I get the RTM version it will be time to finally abandon Virtual PC.

Also gives me a chance to play with James’ Hyper-V library.

PowerShell version 2 is installed by default on Windows 2008 R2 Release Candidate (apart from server core). If you go looking for ISE you may not find it as it appears to be an optional feature install.

Easy to install and can of course be scripted from the server manager cmdlets.  That really is the way to configure R2 I think.  Vanilla install then have a set of scripts to install the roles\features you need.  Can’t dcpromo that way but everything else works.

The version of PowerShell that ships with Windows 7 RC has fixed out-gridview so that we can display more than 10 columns.

try

get-process | select * | Out-GridView

to test it

As James pointed out recently the AD Web Service from Windows 2008 R2 has been released for Windows 2008 and Windows 2003 -  see http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/06/23/use-active-directory-powershell-to-manage-windows-2003-2008-dcs.aspx for details.

Having installed it there doesn’t appear to be any sign of the AD cmdlets or Provider.  On this basis it is useless.  If anyone knows different please let me know because I’ve looked in all the logical (and illogical) and I can’t find those cmdlets.  The Windows 2008 R2 RSAT won’t install so that source doesn’t work.