If you follow the crowd at TechEd, eventually they'll lead you to what's truly important. So in the wake of some schedule changes here this morning, we let the crowd lead us to what turned out to be one of the more significant demos here: Microsoft product manager Dan Harmon showed off the new Server Manager that downloaders of Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 are seeing for the first time.
Server Manager completely replaces the "Manage Your Server" Wizard, which we were surprised to hear (if not entirely surprised to learn) was among the least well-received enhancements to Windows Server 2003. As Harmon freely admitted, this Wizard "didn't provide the functionality" that admins were looking for, was too lightweight, and tried to hold admins by the hand as though they were users.
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