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Yea that would be obvious to anyone. Totally different OS with alot of things added in the timeline.

Does it honestly matter? No competent business is going to continue running 2008 R2.

There's a huge fee associated with making 2019 perform better than 2008 R2, and "logon time" is the primary metric being pulled up

Not sure what anyone can really do there, though. You're at the mercy of Microsoft, and even killing nearly all services, etc. likely isn't going to get you there.

The real fool is whoever agreed to a monetary value being placed on making a new OS perform better than an old one

lol, that's just dumb.

Show them some of GoEUCs stuff? They have great benchmarks. I'm not sure they still have something with 2008 R2 though

I have a 2008 R2 CD

I'm building a system now with my 2008 R2 CD. Not sure what VDA it will need

Well, what are you waiting for spin it up in a lab 😄

See? I'm not the only weirdo with a 2008 R2 CD

7.15 should work

I have NT4 CDs

7.15 works with 2008 R2?

I have MetaFrame and Presentation Server CDs, too, lol

Yea, I believe so.

And the only OS I've ever paid for... Windows ME.

ME = Mistake Edition 😄

yes

ME was the first OS with native USB support. Was a decent gaming OS.

Duke Nukem...nice! 😄

@Nick Panaccio You must have way too much storage space at home 🙂 don't ever move.

Don't suppose anyone has an eval key for 2008 R2? The ones I used to use now appear dead...

I know I don't.

Three years ago, I shredded all my MS/PC-DOS 2.x thru 6.xx floppies, all the IBM Advanced Utilities floppies (required before the advent of LastDrive, fdisk, format for HDs, etc), all my Windows/WfW 3.xx floppies, and all my Windows 95+ floppies and all my CDs/DVDs from NT 3.1 on. Everything is an ISO now, so I saw no need to keep all that stuff taking up space in my attic. I can't remember the last time I needed to install WfW 3.11 or Win95 or NT 3.51 or DOS 6.22. For some odd reason, even though it was my favorite OS, I didn't keep any of the stuff for OS/2. It was a sad, nostalgic moment destroying stuff going back to 1984. Lots of memories.

Listen, when the zombies attack and the only weapons left are CDs, you're all going to be thinking of me and my plethora of ammunition.

haha

Damn, I have keys for everything from 98 to 2019, and the only OS I have no key for is 2008 (any flavor).

I managed to get one - however as I am building two systems, I just tried telephone activation on the second.....and it WORKED!

Telephone activation, jesus

Still can't get any pigging Windows updates though...

Updates for 2008 R2?

Yeah, I know I'm being kinda hopeful here

hold on, you will get an email in a few minutes

Madness! All the time and effort to prove something that's pretty well documented in numerous locations. Been here and done this login metric and financial penalties previously. Not fun. You are the man to do it though. I wouldn't even bother optimising them. Simply vanilla and a local profile should illustrate the difference.

Yep, that's what I am going for. Agree that it's a colossal waste of time though

IIRC, 7.15 was when they announced no more support for R2 starting with 7.16.

Let me check

let me know if they work for you. they are what I use when I have to build a win7/08r2 vm.

Sorry, late response. But I looked it up to confirm (that way I am not talking out of my as!) https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/system-requirements.html#virtual-delivery-agent-vda-for-server-os

I think it might need a CRL before it will install

I often wondered why clients push for things that are CRAZY

If you do that, I will be forced to literally call you Florida Man...

HA, no way I would do that. But I seen some crazy things with cars here.