Using Windows 2008 on a Laptop

boduff — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:36:32 GMT

I've taken the plunge and installed Windows 2008 64-bit on my laptop after a re-imaging "opportunity" caused by IpSec and dogfooding a pre-release of some software that will remain nameless.

So far my trusty Dell 820 is working pretty well. Disk to disk copy was a respectable 45 MB/Sec, and I can use Hyper-V and VMM 2008 to play with my virtual machines.

Some common issues to watch out for that got me:

A) Bluetooth - I gave up
B) The Essential Windows Search in Outlook not installed by default. I used this blog to help http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/2008/03/17/enable-windows-search-service/
D) Windows LiveWriter didn't work. Hard coding of o/s checks into setup - naughty naughty. I used this blog to help http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/archive/2008/03/25/installing-windows-live-writer-on-windows-2008.aspx

e) a few things are not installed by default, but can be selected from Roles and Features - like Desktop experience, Wireless LAN Management and dot.net 3.0.

f) Could not find a video driver for love nor money - I tries the NVidia Vista x64 bit driver available from dell and it worked!! no blue screens yet ;-)

IIS 7.0, and the LongHorn Application Platform

boduff — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:36:00 GMT

Hi,

Thanks to Dave for a great session last week - I really enjoyed the demos, especially PHP running xxx times faster on II7.0 - the new FastCGI and compression in IIS 7.0 rocks!! I wont publish the results as you have to see Daves demo to believe it...

Personally the most exciting thing about IIS 7.0 and the bit that took the longest for the penny to drop is the "Unfied Pipeline" which is core to the improvements in IIS 7.0. Here's a great site explaining IIS 7.0 improvements:
http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?i=928&subtabid=25&tabid=2

You can get the slides from our talk from Dave's blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/daven/archive/2007/10/18/yesterday-s-longhorn-academy-web-and-application-platform.aspx

One of the cool features we didn't to demo is developing dot.net plug ins to the unified pipeline. This is really imressive stuff, you can add profantity filters, custom authentication, copyright handlers on a web site regardless of whether it is dot.net or php or classic asp - nice ;-)

Bob Duffy's Blobby Blog : LongHorn

Using Windows 2008 on a Laptop

IIS 7.0, and the LongHorn Application Platform