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January 2008 - Posts

iSCSI Setup in 5mins on Windows Server 2008 [SCREENCAST]

This is the latest screencast I did with Adam in the team. This time it was on iSCSC and he provided a quick introduction to iSCSI, which is a technology which is part of Windows Storage Server which allows SCSI commands to be shared over the network Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:38 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

IIS7 Web Deployment / Migration tool

Happiness is a server running IIS7 and to that end, the IIS team released "Technical Preview 1" of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool which provides deployment and migration support for IIS 6.0 and 7.0, making it a great tool to migration your Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:50 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Highway to PowersHELL

In the US, this year's Pop Idol is just starting, with those awful scenes of people singing who have no right to try. Recently the Powershell team found a guy who has written a song about Powershell to the sound track of "Highway to Hell - AC/DC". Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:23 PM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Bob Muglia - Senior VP by Day, ITPRO by night

Before the holidays, Adam on team was in a technology review for one of the Windows Server technologies that Bob Muglia was leading ( who is Senior VP of the Server and Tools Business ) and it became pretty clear to him that he uses this technology at Read More...
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 4:33 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

TECHED REG OPENS - Lets hope it is better this year

Registration for this years TechED has opened. For this year it has now split into two parts with Bill Gates keynoting the developer week and Bob Muglia keynoting the ITPRO week. Dates Tech·Ed U.S. Developers June 3-6, 2008 Tech·Ed U.S. IT Professionals Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 9:29 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Understanding Windows CardSpace BOOK

Vittorio came by my office around a year ago and asked whether it was OK for him to write a book on CardSpace. "Oh course" I said, and this set in motion a lot of work to make this thing happen. " Understanding Windows Cardspace " Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:35 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments

What is the truth behind the "Lone Server"

MSCOM OPS with Microsoft.com, WS08, IIS7, and the Lone Server Last week I had a post about the "Lone Server" Video which was an off-take about the last Windows Server 2003 in the data center. Based on this blog, one of my guys wanted to find Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:28 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 “How Do I?” Video Series

There is a new “How Do I?” video series on Visual Studio 2008 which has been created for people who want to quickly check out some of the new capabilities. You can check out the Visual Studio 2008 “How Do I?” video series at the following location on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:27 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Windows HPC V2 Training in New York - Jan 29 - CHECK IT OUT

We are starting to run early training events on version 2 of out HPC server ( in Beta 1). This is a one-day presentation style event that can help you get the technical information you require to start deploying and developing HPC V2. If you are interested Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:42 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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MSI Installer Issues - Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility

Jason has posted the next in a series of App Compat interviews with some of the key people from the product team focused on this area. Robert Flaming talks about application compatibility issues with Windows Installer for Windows Server 2008. The post Read More...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 10:53 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

HPC ( High Performance Computing ) DEEP DIVE

On the February 26 – 28 (2008) we are going to hold a HPC Deep Dive for a small number of customers or partners building solutions on the Windows Server HPC platform ( Windows CCS ) at the campus in Redmond. These are developer lab events where attending Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:13 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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6 min Screencast on Windows Deployment Services (WDS)

Last week I popped into Adam’s office to ask about Windows Deployment Services which is a feature that is built into Windows Server 2008. He showed me a quick 6 minute demo which shows how you can easily deploy operating systems to many desktops over Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 7:46 AM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Security Guide – Test the BETA

The latest Windows Server 2008 Security Guide has just gone into beta. Please take a look and give us your feedback. The guide will help ITPRO’s select best practices through automated tools to help strengthen the security of servers running Windows Server Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:48 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Sun to Purchase MySQL!!

There must be something in the air? First it was Oracle and now Sun. They announced today that they wish to acquire MySQL for around 1B$!!!! MySQL is certainly the leader in the Open Source Database market and this adds to their office suite, but you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:24 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Oracle to buy BEA Systems

Well I guess this took longer than anyone expected, but I guess BEA Systems have held off long enough for Oracle to purchase them for a decent price ( over 19$ a share ) or over inflated price. There are some more details on the news wire ( 1 ) ( 2 ) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:35 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Will Apple enter the enterprise?

The big news yesterday was all about the Ultra Thin Apple MacBook Air. Intel joined in the party by talking about their low powered chips in the device ( although that was the only party they had yesterday ). This got me thinking..... is Apple now ready Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:01 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Every now and then we come out with funny videos [FOR LAUNCH]

What some people in the company find funny generally concerns me, especially when they create viral videos. This time is a little different with a funny video about the last Windows Server 2003 in the datacenter "Lone Server". Cool jabs and Windows ME Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:07 AM by neilhut | 5 Comments

Meeting the Windows Server 2008 App Compatibility Team

Jason on the team had a conversation with the Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility team to talk about some of the top areas where server applications would fail on Windows Server 2008. This was the first of a few conversations and this covers Read More...
Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 9:26 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

PHP Application support on Windows Server

If you have not noticed recently, the level of support that we are building for PHP and the community is becoming pretty impressive. I have shared a couple ( 1 ) ( 2 ) of screencasts on my blog which show the great support for PHP on IIS7 and IIS6 through Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 4:08 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

High Performance Computing ( HPC ) V2 - New Content

The team has started to share some of the early features of the HPC version of Windows Server 2008 which will be released in the Summer of 2008. On the developer side, Phil has created a HPC Show ( http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The_HPC_Show ) and already Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:00 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

iSCSI Support in Windows Server 2008 to build check clusters

Dave Northey has created a really great screencast on EDGE which shows you how to configure a cheap three node cluster using ISCSI ( basically intercepts SCSI commands and shares them over the network ) across three Windows Server Core machines managing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:35 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Top Things to Break Applications on Windows Server 2008

We are getting pretty close to shipping Windows Server 2008. If you have not done already, please download the latest build of Windows Server 2008 (see recent post of download instructions ) and test the applications which you have developed. If your Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:06 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Getting PHP to Perform on IIS7 and Windows Server 2008

Dave Northey who is a ITPRO Evangelist from Ireland had posted a really interesting 6 minute screen cast on EDGE which shows you how you can tune your PHP applications on Windows Server 2008 and IIS7. This goes into the how to configure FASTCGI ( in place Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:19 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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