About: This post contains the list of resources about Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008

Greetings,

I want to thank all of you who attended the Architect Track at launch and provided feedback; here are some of the resources we mentioned during our track.

General

1.       Joel’s blog (in French)

a.       http://blogs.msdn.com/joelq

2.       Channel 9 for Architects

a.       http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Architecture

b.      http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/ARCast.TV

3.       Subscribe to “The Architecture Journal”

www.architecturejournal.net

4.       Patterns and Practices Web Site

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/practices/default.aspx

Aspiring Architects

5.       Web Cast series for aspiring architects

http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/archive/2007/05/25/architecture-101-recording-and-resource-links.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/archive/2007/06/01/software-development-lifecycle-and-methodologies-recording-and-resource-link.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/archive/2007/06/12/service-orientation-and-other-architectural-approaches-recording-and-resource-links.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/archive/2007/06/21/transitioning-to-an-architect-role-recording-and-resource-links.aspx

Visual Studio

6.       Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison

a.       http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx

7.       Adam’s blog is at

 http://blogs.msdn.com/adamga

8.       Adam’s content

 http://adamga.canitpro.ca

9.       Visual Studio Webcast series

 http://msdn.microsoft.ca/vswebcasts

10.   Install Visual Studio 2008

Download available for MSDN Subscribers, Trial version available

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/vstudio/aa700831.aspx

11.   Download training kits, hands-on-labs and videos

http://download.vstudio/starterkits

12.   Subscribe to Scott Guthrie’s blog

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

Windows Server 2008

13.   Virtualization overall

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/default.mspx

14.   Server 2008 on MSDN

 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/windowsserver/default.aspx

15.    TechNet

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/2008/default.aspx

16.  Small environments without management tools, try System Center Essentials

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/essentials/default.mspx

17.  Larger environments try System Center Virtual Machine Manager

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scvmm/bb727241.aspx

Best regards,

Mohammad