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TechNet Webcast: Everything You Wanted to Know and Ask about Windows Deployment (Part 1) Registration URL:   http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9807963   or  http://bit.ly/JLTQLM Date/ Time:     Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 9-10am (Pacific) Abstract: In this demonstration-rich, question and answer webcast, Windows Product Manager Stephen Rose moderates an open conversation with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Product Manager Michael Niehaus and deployment guru Johan Arwidmark. They discuss the new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 release as well as tips and tricks from the experts about using the Windows Deployment Toolkit. TechNet Webcast: Everything You Wanted to Know and Ask about Windows Deployment (Part 2) Registration URL:   http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9807964   or  http://bit.ly/Kgny8y Date/ Time:     Thursday, May 17, 2012  - 9-10am (Pacific) Abstract: In this demonstration-rich, question and answer webcast, Windows Product Manager Stephen Rose moderate

First thing first, Windows Server 8 beta will change name to Windows Server 2012. This was officially announced at MMS2012 and the release date will be later this year.In juni we will se the next test version, called "release candidate" One of many new cool features are the disk deduplication, check out my blog post here  for more info. There is a tool to check out how much space you might save by using deduplication, but for now the tool are only available after you have enabled the file server feature on a Windows Server 2012 installation. And that's to bad since you might want to test out how much space you can save with an Windows Server 2012 upgrade. But luckily there is a way to cheat....