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Monday, November 09, 2009 8:06 AM

New R2 Developer Learning Center

Windows Server 2008 R2 , “Not your average R2!” Explore this significant Windows Server release via a self-paced training course of videos and hands-on-labs with a focus on performance, web, management, and other server solution scenarios.  
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Monday, October 19, 2009 11:01 AM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Now Available

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and supports high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  R2 features enhanced support for Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:40 AM

Windows 7 (+R2) Developer Boot Camp at PDC09

Windows 7 (x64) and Windows Server 2008 R2 share the same OS kernel.   Learn more about the new operating system with a major focus on client development.   Learn from top Windows engineers, including Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang,
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:32 PM

PowerShell Means “Powerful Automation”!

Announcing a new webcast series for both Developers and IT-Pro’s. PowerShell V2 introduces many new features including remote sessions, an integrated script environment, debugging tools, and much more.  Start your video tour of PowerShell V2 via
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:29 AM

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SDK Available

The RTM release of the Windows SDK supporting Windows 7 is available on the Microsoft download center via Web setup and ISO .   It’s also available to MSDN Subscribers . One caveat is that the 64 bit versions of the ISO download are not available
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Monday, August 10, 2009 5:31 PM

The Uber-Extensible Web Platform

The Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server (Internet Information Services, IIS, version 7.x) is built with a completely modular architecture, on top of rich extensibility APIs.  This enables developers to easily add, remove and even replace built-in IIS
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Friday, August 07, 2009 9:47 AM

Windows 7 RTM is Now Available for MSDN Subscribers

As of the date of this post, Windows 7 (but not Windows Server 2008 R2) is available for MSDN subscribers within the subscriber downloads section section of the website.   Note that subscribers may also download the debugging symbols (for both
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 6:44 PM

VHD and Hyper-V APIs Enable Creative New Solutions

Although VHD files are closely associated with virtualization products like Hyper-V, the VHD file format is actually a stand-alone technology useful beyond just virtualization solution scenarios.   With Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7,
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:37 AM

Channel9 – New File Classification Infrastructure Episodes

The File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is a new Windows Server technology included within the File Server Role. FCI is exposed via File Server Resource Management (FSRM). FCI is used to:   1. Define file classification properties.   2.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:15 AM

Channel9 - New C++ Concurrency Runtime Episodes

The C++ Concurrency Runtime is new with Visual Studio 2010 (in Beta release as of June, 2009).  Learn how the new runtime task scheduler leverages new Windows Server 2008 R2 User-Mode Scheduling (UMS) APIs and provides powerful pattern-based abstractions
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Sunday, July 19, 2009 3:42 PM

Trigger-Start Services with Windows Server 2008 R2

As the name implies it, Trigger-Start Services are not constantly running on the system but rather start when a specific event in the system triggers the service to start and/or respond. The events that can be triggered can be any of the following: ·
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Friday, May 29, 2009 11:00 AM

Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 NUMA and UMS APIs

You may have missed the recent MSDN Webcast on the new Non-Uniform Memory Access and User-Mode Scheduling API’s.   No worries.   Catch the replay here .
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Friday, May 22, 2009 12:33 PM

R2 Power Management Features

A new posting on MSDN Channel9 with an accompanied resource list on MSDN Code Gallery .
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:39 AM

Updated Server Core "Step-by-Step" Guide

The excellent Server Core "Step-by-Step" Guide has been updated with Windows Server 2008 R2 "how-to" information. Read more here .
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Friday, May 08, 2009 8:00 PM

How to Get Started Leveraging Windows Server 2008 R2 Features

A new blog posting explains when applications should take advantage of Server Core, parallel processing using NUMA, PowerShell 2, Windows Web Services, and more. Links are also provided on getting Windows Server 2008 R2, getting the updated Windows SDK,
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