Entries tagged with windows server 2008 - TechNet Edge

System Resource Manager

gmarchetti — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:20:00 GMT

This screencasts shows you how to set up and use Windows System Resource Manager. WSRM is a tool that allows you to assign CPU and memory to processes or groups of users, thus optimizing resource allocation within a machine (real or virtual).

Windows Server 2008 Event Subscription with Task Scheduling

yung — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:25:00 GMT

Event subscription has been one of the most requested server features by sys admins. Combined with task scheduling, this is a cost-effective and customizable tool to get a consolidated view of monitored activities and events in target servers, and timely issue alerts. In Windows Server 2008 subscribing and forwarding events with triggers to send out alerts can be done very easily as shown in this screencast. If you would like to go through the screen flow in a document form, it’s here.

TechNet Radio: User Group Community

erickingfrog — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:48:00 GMT

Join this TechNet Radio session to hear about the user group community. Find out how you can get involved, and also get some tips for starting a user group in your area.

Best Places to find Windows HPC Server 2008 Resources

neil — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:36:00 GMT

Within the team we compiled a great lists of "best places" to find information about Windows HPC Server 2008 which just RTM'd.

Community Sites which contain a lot of screens casts and interview content

TechNet Edge - A collection of Windows HPC topical demonstrations for the IT Professionals.

Channel9 - A collection of Windows HPC topical demonstrations for the Developer.

WindowsHPC.net - The HPC Community and technical forums.

http://www.microsoft.com/hpc - The Microsoft product portal. See the on-demand webcasts via the events tab.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/hpc - A listing of resources for developers.

A great list of bloggers on this subject from within Microsoft

http://blogs.technet.com/gmarchetti

http://blogs.msdn.com/volkerw

http://blogs.msdn.com/hpctrekker

http://blogs.msdn.com/philpenn

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/hpc

Whitepapers

Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Overview Data Sheet
Here's a quick overview of Windows HPC Server 2008 benefits and features.
Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Templates
Learn how Job templates can help streamline the job submission process.
Windows HPC Server 2008: Using MS-MPI
Find out more about the new high performance Message Passing Interface (MPI) stack included in Microsoft HPC Pack 2008.
Overview of SOA Programming Model and Runtime System for Windows HPC Server 2008
This white paper provides a technical overview of SOA applications and the Windows HPC Server 2008 functions that support the SOA model.

Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Overview
Get a detailed overview of Windows HPC Server 2008 new features and benefits.

Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler
Learn how the Windows HPC Server 2008 new Job Scheduler provides greater scalability and supports advanced policies. It also includes a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) mode that allows interactive applications.

Windows HPC Server 2008 System Management Overview
Learn more about the Windows HPC Server 2008 centralized management and deployment interface with template-based deployment capabilities, and a Network Configuration Wizard that helps to simplify network and topology setup and configuration.

Windows HPC Server 2008 released to manufacturing

neil — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:35:00 GMT

This morning we just announced the release of Windows HPC Server 2008 to manufacturing. This is a major milestone and ensures that the HPC offering supports the Windows Server 2008 release.

This release will enable no scientist to be left behind in their pursuit by making it a lot easier for them to approach the technology, but it will also bring this into the reach of mainstream computing, but provding developers with a high level programing abstraction, so that they can quickly crunch business data.

The community site for Windows Server 2008 is at http://www.windowshpc.net and details about how to download the software can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/evalcenter/cc835241.aspx after 12pm PST.

If you are new to this area, we have a lot of great screencasts and interviews with the product team on the site which can help guide you through.

The main list can be found by selecting the HPC Tag Section.

Screencast: Network Access Protection Part 2

jeffadude — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:20:00 GMT

Hello again,

In my previous post on Network Access Protection I showed you how to configure the server and get the switch going for 802.1x authentication. In this Screencast I'm going to look at what happens at the client end so you can see how to configure a Windows Vista client and then look at some of the events that get logged when a client moves in and out of health.

Enjoy!

Server Core: Wstępna konfiguracja

masakra — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:56:00 GMT

W poprzedniej prezentacji zainstalowaliśmy już Windows Server 2008 w wersji Core.

A teraz skonfigurujemy nasz serwer tak, aby mógł podłączyć się do sieci lokalnej. Potrzebne nam to będzie w celu aktywacji systemu ale co ważniejsze też w celu podłączenia tego serwera do istniejącej już domeny AD.

Skonfigurujemy również Server Core tak, aby możliwe było zdalne zarządzanie nim. Zapraszam więc do prezentacji.

IIS and Powershell

AdamBomb — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:01:00 GMT

Rimantas Malinaukas is a Solution Architect for Propensity International in Sydney, Australia. Our own Jeff Alexander sat down with him to talk about a recent project where they built a solution on a pre-release of IIS7 and used Powershell to save the day when they discovered an issue in the product.
It's a great story about offering Software as a Service and a hosted solution.

Screencast: Network Access Protection with 802.1x (Part 1)

jeffadude — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:01:00 GMT

One of the most important features of Windows Server 2008 is Network Access Protection. In it’s simplest terms NAPQBranch in Sweden, starts off by telling us about their own company's ~50 server and ~5,000 customer server environment which has been running Windows Server 2008 since 2006.

At 02:27 Fredrik Lindstrom, Developer at QBranch, tells us about active directory snapshot software he wrote to compare the snapshot versions and restore deleted objects and their values in AD. He tells us about some of the limitations and plans for the program moving forward.

At 4:06 Fredrik gives us a demo of the software.

You can download Fredrik's program here:
http://lindstrom.nullsession.com/?page_id=11

Learn more about Server 2008
Learn more about AD snapshots

The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt #6 - TCP/IP i Windows Server 2008 och Vista

michand — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:07:00 GMT

6:e avsnittet av The Nerd Herd. Den är gången handlar det om Microsoft Windows "Longhorn"s nya TCP/IP stack, ett ett begränsat ämne kan tyckas men det finns en hel del nyheter och vi gör även ett intressant avslöjande som du kanske inte visste? Medverkar i programmet gör; Mikael Nyström från Truesec AB. Programmet leds av Michael Anderberg, IT Pro Evangelist på Microsoft i Sverige.

The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt #5 - Terminal Services i Windows Server 2008

michand — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:03:00 GMT

5:e avsnittet av The Nerd Herd. Den här gången handlar det om Microsoft Windows "Longhorn" Terminal Services, många av er undrar säkert över nyheter såsom TS Remote Programs och TS Remote Gateway. Vi pratar även om hur Softgrid kommer in i bilden. Medverkar i programmet gör; Mikael Nyström från Truesec AB samt John Laerum från Cornerstone AB. Programmet leds av Michael Anderberg, IT Pro Evangelist på Microsoft i Sverige.

The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt #3 - Windows Server 2008 Setup and Server Manager

michand — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:52:00 GMT

3:e avsnittet av The Nerd Herd. Den här gången handlar det om Microsoft Windows "Longhorn" Setup och Server Manager, hur fungerar det och vad bör man kanske tänka på och inte minst hur använder man det på ett bra sätt. Medverkar i programmet gör; Mikael Nyström och Christoffer Andersson båda från Truesec AB samt John Laerum från Cornerstone AB. Programmet leds av Michael Anderberg, IT Pro Evangelist på Microsoft i Sverige.

Screencast: Windows PowerShell introduction

jeffadude — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:34:00 GMT

Windows PowerShell is without a doubt one of the most important tools we have released for administrators for some time. However it's often overlooked and a lot of IT Pro's I talk with think it's perhaps better suited to developers.

In this Screencast I go through the basics to get you started. I'll also post the sample files I've used at my blog which is http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36

Enjoy!

jeffa

Slipstreaming Internet Explorer 8 into Windows Vista

RaidDawg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Lately, I have been doing a lot fun work with the IE 8 team. Look for a TechNet radio interview shortly I did with Jane Maliouta who is a IE Deployment Program Manager. In talking with Jane she told that she had written a post on how to slipstream IE 8 into an Windows Vista image. After checking out the post I decided to make a screencast to show how easy this is to do.

If you want to see the steps in greater detail check out Jane's post here:

Detailed Steps to Slipstream IE 8 into Windows Vista

If you have not scene IE 8 in action check out my two screen casts I did a few weeks back:

Here are some other great resources for IE8, as well as download locations:

Download IE 8 today:

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 x64

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows XP SP2

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows XP SP2 Pro x64

Hyper-V Part 5 - High Availability - Interview with PMs

extreme — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:01:00 GMT

John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of Hyper-V. In part 5 we cover:

Guest operating system clustering
Virtualization platform clustering
- Planned failover i.e. "quick migration"
- Unplanned failover
- Clustering VMs
- Disc options and their benefits/costs problems/workarounds
  - iSCSI, Pass-through, disks using GUIDs

Hyper-V Part 3 - TAP and VSS Snapshots - Interview with PMs

extreme — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:01:00 GMT

John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of the Hyper-V architecture. In part 3, we dive into the following components:

Hyper-V TAP program results
(02:28) Virtual machine snapshots and Volume Shadow copy Service snapshots (VSS)
- Difference between the two
- How VSS snapshots function
- What happens with a backup for VSS and a non-VS aware operating system (i.e. Linux or Windows 2000 Server)

Hyper-V Part 4 - Disks and iSCSI - Interview with PMs

extreme — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Determine when you would want to use a pass-through disk
How iSCSI works and how you can use it with Hyper-V
Learn some best practices in using iSCSI

To learn more about iSCSI, view our other iSCSI posts on Edge.

Download Hyper-V RTM

Hyper-V Part 2 - VM Snapshots - Interviews with PMs

extreme — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:28:00 GMT

John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of Hyper-V. In part 2 we cover:

How virtual machine snapshots work under the covers
How to properly export a specific VHD/snapshot in your chain
Limitations with multiple branches of snapshots

Hyper-V hits RTM interview with Mike Neil

extreme — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:13:00 GMT

Hyper-V finally hits RTM! In this interview, we ask a number of questions to the guy who's in charge of server virtualization such as:
Why we decided to get into the server virtualization environment?
What changes have happened since previous RCs?
What challenges we've had along the way?
Where do you see things headed moving forward?
What challenges would an ITPro face with deploying hyper-v?
Fun Features IT Pros can use right now with Hyper-V

Download the RTM of Hyper-V starting at NOON PST. Existing customers who have deployed WS 2008 can recieve Hyper-V from Windows update beginning July 8.

Mark Minasi insights into IT

extreme — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:01:00 GMT

DNS is like a toilet? Software like beer (18:25)? Hear Mark explain these comical (but relevant) analogies during this interview. You will also hear:

His take on how sessions should be with powerpoints and demos.

What he would like to see in Server core

How you can raise your stature with members of the opposite sex by using your command line skills.

The changes Vista and Server 2008 have with finding a site in AD and how to configure DNS record registration for branch offices.

How should you run DNS with RODCs and what to watch out for with the configuration

His take on Software + Services.

Explanation and demo for the new DNAME record that exists in Server 2008

Windows Vista Complete PC Backup and Restore

KingCobra — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:55:00 GMT

It’s been a while since I brought up a great feature in Windows Vista (not present in Windows XP) called Complete PC (CPC). Available in Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions, Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore is a image-based backup tool that will help you out of a tight spot if you need to recover your entire system.

While file restore is useful in cases of file loss and data corruption, Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore is most useful for disaster recovery when your PC malfunctions. This feature helps you create complete PC backups, and then in the event of a serious system issue or data loss, Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore can restore your entire PC environment, including the operating system, installed programs, user settings, and data files.

You can restore your PC back to its original state or onto another PC. Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore can be initiated from within Windows Vista or from the Windows Vista installation CD, if the PC is not able to start up normally from the hard disk. This feature is also now integrated into Windows Server 2008 and part of the backup and recovery toolset on that platform.

Checkout the FAQ from the team that developed the feature. It’ll answer some questions about security, network backups, etc. If you really must have a Powerpoint slide deck on the subject, check this out.

Here’s a screencast on Complete PC. Don’t forget you can view this full screen by double clicking the video during playback or using the button on the player toolbar.