Cisco and Microsoft jointly announced a new Windows on WAAS option for their Appliance. Through virtualization, the Cisco WAAS Appliance can actually run Windows 2008. The WAAS portion is what accelerates the applications over the WAN and the Win 2008 provides typical remote office networking services like DHCP, DNS, Active Directory (AD), and file sharing, without needing a full Windows Server.
Also, in the video below, you can learn how to install WAAS from a Cisco Engineer:
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