I happened across a link the other day and found that Microsoft has released several SQL Server 2008 R2 virtual labs. Not sure if these either trickled out or were all out at the same time, but back a few months ago I couldn’t find any 2008 R2 versions, only SQL Server 2008 stuff existed. Anyway, here’s the links to what I found if you’re interested. If you’ve never spent the time doing these labs, I suggest that you try a few sometime and see if you like them. I’ve always found them really useful for taking the new technologies for a spin, and think the Mothership does one helluva job putting them together. I’m going to catch up on a few this weekend, so you should give ‘em a shot too!
- TechNet Virtual Labs for SQL Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Virtual Labs
Lee Everest
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Ah! Yeah. It's just we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. All right!

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/cc164207
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc138238
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