I recently found out about some big news inside of Microsoft here. There is something called “Edge” coming out in the future. Unfortunately at this time, I can’t really say any more about it – other than it’s going to be really sweet! Technorati tags: Microsoft, Edge
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Analysis of Windows Server 2008 – AD Snapshot Viewer
This feature is currently known as the “Database Mounting Tool” (DMT), which is better than the previous name of “Data Mining Tool”. Who knows what we’ll end up calling this at RTM, but I like the previous name “Snapshot Viewer” the best so this is what I entitled the post. DMT allows you to quickly…
Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide
This guide is intended for any organization who would like to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Silverlight in their environment. Some of the things you can find in this guide are installation switches, update behavior, value proposition on why to deploy, group policy adm / admx / adml files, and instructions on how to deploy Silverlight…
Forefront Stirling – The possibilities
That’s right it’s Stirling, not Sterling like silver. I’ll cover the background behind the name perhaps in an interview with the product team. Forefront is categorized into three categories: Client, Server, and Edge. Currently, the client and server forefront products have two separate management consoles and Edge doesn’t have a management console. In June at…
Windows Server 2008 Virtualization released at RC0!
What does this mean? You’ll be able to try out using hypervisor. The biggest advantage of hypervisor is that you can run multiple virtual machines on the base hardware (not on top of the OS). For more information about hypervisor, check out this webcast: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032284286&CountryCode=US for more information on the anouncement, go to: http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2007/09/13/wanna-get-your-hands-on-windows-server-virtualization-viridian.aspx Also, check out…
Server 2008 "Longhorn" Component Architecture diagrams downloads
I finally went through all of the stuff I got at TechEd 2007 and came across a soft copy of those cool Server 2008 color diagrams or posters you may have seen around. I tried searching for them on Microsoft’s site, but couldn’t find them. So, you can download them from the links below. I…
Server 2008 Password Policies – PSOs
In Server 2003 or R2 one of the major limitations was the ability to only have one password policy per domain. The product team realized this was a major pain point for many customers, so they hooked Server 2008 up with some new password policy functionality which is available in Beta 3. In Server 2008,…
IIS7 on Server Core
Server core is a capability included in Server 2008 which installs the bare minimum to have one or more roles function properly. There were 7 roles available for server core and at TechEd IIS7 was announced as an addition to the list. IIS7 in server core is available in the June CTP and in all…
New SSL FTP on IIS7 screencast
This is a sweet screencast on the new FTP included with IIS7 (I referenced it on my previous blog post). It relevant for us IT Pros and it doesn’t come up when you search for “FTP” on channel9, so here it is: https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=319223 There are demos on: Integrated Publishing (HTTP & FTP side by side)…
SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) – New features for IT Pros
SQL Katmai was recently officially branded SQL Server 2008. The June community technology preview (CTP) is the 1st publicly available release which was announced at TechEd 2007. Microsoft has publicly committed to releasing the product in 2008, but nothing more specific than that. A guess would be RTM the in the first half of 2008….