There are a number of enhancements to DNS in Windows Server 2008. There are already some lengthy articles on the features, so in this post I hope to give a quick “why you care” on each of the features and some nuggets of wisdom / insight. Here we go… DNS on Server Core: I see…
Year: 2008
Forefront Stirling – Public Beta Overview
With the launch of the 1st public beta for Forefront Stirling on April 8th, I thought it would be relevant to do a post this week on it. This release proves that the Stirling vision scenario in my previous blog article is becoming a reality. “Stirling” seems to be thrown around quite a bit and…
Gadgets for TechNet Edge
Gadgets for TechNet Edge, channel 8, channel 9, channel 10, and Visitmix are now live (thanks to Donavan West at Livegadgets.net). Now you can see the posts for any of our channels via the sidebar! Download the gadget for TechNet Edge here. See Duncan Mackenzie’s post to download and see screenshots of the other channels’…
Microsoft announces the IT Probot
I interviewed Tandy Trower last year and I asked about how he thinks robots will play a part in daily IT Pro activities. Well, finally we have a very early temporary solution – the IT Probot (not to be confused with the Microsoft robot "IT 24-7"). I got the chance to meet up and interview…
Windows Server 2008 Launch interview with Iain McDonald
I did an interview with Iain McDonald a couple days ago in spite of the launch for Server 2008 in Los Angeles today. It was a pretty informative and fun interview, so check it out on Edge here. Also, it’d be cool if you were to comment on this post on Edge and let Iain…
Windows Server 2008 – Self-healing NTFS
Self-healing NTFS is a feature which is currently present in Vista and is also included with Windows Server 2008. There’s a good chance you haven’t heard of it until now with WS2008, so I’m assuming this is because it isn’t really a “wow” end-user feature. However, it is actually a very useful feature as an…
Automatically Imbed the latest TechNet Edge videos on your blog
So we just released this cool capability on Edge where you can imbed the latest video from the TechNet Edge homepage. All you need to do is imbed the following code on your website or blog: <iframe src="http://edge.technet.com/latest/player/" frameborder="0" height="325" scrolling="no" width="320"></iframe> and it looks like this:
Meet Lone Server’s friend and discover the truth
Ok, I had the chance to meet up with the friend, Jeff Toews, who has known Lone Server for about 7-8 years now (yes, he really does exist). Lone Server does indeed exist, however, it probably won’t be much longer before he starts to hit the gym (aka upgraded) so he can get some chicks….