I've got a Windows 2008 VPS for a little project I'm working on and found that I needed to use Telnet to test that a port was working ocrrectly, thinking this would be the quickest way. Wrong - Telnet client isn't installed by default so it would seem at last that Microsoft make you install every no essential tool / program as you need it so thumbs up to that.

So I had to install Telnet client as a Feature details can be found here: http://www.elmajdal.net/Win2k8/How_To_Enable_Telnet_In_Windows_Server_2008.aspx

It may help someoneelse out ;)

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Windows 2008 - Telnet