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Woohoo!!! Today I passed the 70-647 exam, Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator. Now I get to add some more alphabet soup to my signature (MCITP 2008 Enterprise Administrator). My unbroken streak of passed exams continues! This MCITP certification is equivilent to the MCSE credential for Windows 2003.If you're interested in the certification path, see this link: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/windowsserver/2008/default.mspx .

Q. What is really new about Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008? No service account - now uses a local system account No support for Parallel Attached SCSI (PAS), this allows for better hardware control and failover 16 nodes if you use a 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 Support for GPT disks, yes larger than 2TB disks are now supported natively Validate - ensure your systems are cluster ready and help you follow best practices 4 Quorum models, no more single point of failure for the quorum Majority quorum model Majority of Nodes Witness disk File Share Witness Improved IPSec, no more 7 minute timeout when failed over! Stretched clusters can have nodes in different network segments with various speeds Cluster Migration Tool - to help you migrate MMC 3.0 snap-in, no longer a seperate application Setup/install 2003 was 23 steps, now 3 steps. Yes I said 3 steps