Last week I went to Microsoft’s “Heroes Happen {Here} 2008″ launch of the 2008 series of products: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008.

As part of the ‘goodies bag’ given away, I got a complementary copy of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. Having read very good things about it, and being rather impressed - I installed it on my work desktop machine. (Rather risky, I know).

I would highly recommend anyone considering this to read Vijayshinva Karnure’s blog post on how to configure it properly. Once done, it looks and “feels” just like Windows Vista. (Only, significantly faster).

However - the first thing I would recommend you do is to turn off the Enhanced Security settings for Internet Explorer. Microsoft have changed the way this is done from Windows Server 2003, so it can take some hunting to find how to change it.

The frustrating thing is that it’s right infront of you. No, really - The Server Manager console that shows on first login has the option right there, but “helpfully” disguises it in acronym form.

Click on that link, and turn off IE ESC for both Admins and Users.