If you’d rather start evaluating Server 2008 R2 by downloading a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) image, that’s option number three. The procedure is much the same as for the “IT Professionals” guided experience. If you’re a developer, there’s a separate button for you that takes you over to the MSDN Evaluation Center. Then you’re taken over to the download page to get the ISO image (just shy of 3GB). (There’s no decision to make about 64-bit versus 32-bit because Server 2008 R2 is 64-bit only.) You have to log in with a Microsoft account and then agree to receive three e-mails during the eval period, plus maybe even a phone call from someone at Microsoft. You get either a “compilation” version containing a 180-day eval of Web, Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter, or an Itanium version. (Get there at The first free method is to “register for an guided experience” (there’s that vaunted MS quality control!) for IT professionals. There are three “free” methods in addition to the traditional ways of getting eval copies through TechNet Plus and MSDN. Microsoft has provided several ways for us to evaluate Server 2008 R2.
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