Windows Server 2008

We announced the new Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0, and the MOF 4.0 online community. Check out Jeff's blog post over on the System Center team blog. Here's an excerpt:

So what’s new?  First, where the old MOF talked mainly about operations, the new MOF 4.0 describes the entire IT life cycle, including business planning, project organization can use a common language and a consistent framework for planning and coordinating their activities.

The second improvement is to the design of the content.  If you’re looking for a way to overhaul your organizations service management practices, then MOF 4.0 provides that comprehensive view that will help you choose where to start.  However, if you’re just looking for a best practice around one particular area then MOF 4.0 can help as well, with short (25-page) “service management functions” that can give you ideas on improving a particular function in 20 minutes.

Patrick

Helping businesses address the growing complexity of managing their IT environments, today at Microsoft Management Summit 2008 we announced the public beta release of System Center Virtual

Machine Manager 2008 (formerly referred to as code name “Virtual Machine Manager vNext”).

 

 System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables customers to configure and deploy new virtual machines and to centrally manage their virtualized infrastructure, whether running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 or VMware ESX Server. When used in conjunction with the broad System Center management suite, customers can use SCVMM 2008 to effectively manage both their virtualized and physical servers and applications.

 

For more information about this news and other activities taking place at MMS, check out the Virtual Press Room.

 

 -Tina

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This one is a little sneaky, don’t send me hate mail for it.

What does this return?

 

SELECT

ISNUMERIC('+'),ISNUMERIC('–')

Copy and paste it into QA/SSMS to verify  :-0

 

 

You are looking at the data in your table, most of the queries are ranges queries but every now and then a query gets executed for exactly one row. How would you index this? This is a very tough decision, right? You have 2 types of indexes to choose from, and if the index is a composite (multi column) index then you also have to worry about which column to place first so that you get a lean mean index seek.

 

With Sybase IQ you have these indexes to choose from

 

The Default column index

The Low_Fast (LF) index type

The High_Group (HG) index type

The High_Non_Group (HNG) index type

The Compare (CMP) index type

The Containment (WD) index type

The Date (DATE) index type

The Time (TIME) index type

The Datetime (DTTM) index type

The JOIN Index (Linear joins and Star joins)

 

Yes, a lot more than two, Sybase IQ does not have clustered or non clustered indexes. You can specify clustered index but it will be ignored.

 

What do you think? Do we need more indexes in SQL Server? What about BitMap indexes?

Interesting article that shows how big Facebook's Internet infrastructure is.

From the article:

 

How big is Facebook's Internet infrastructure? Facebook VP of Technology Jeff Rothschild provided some details in a panel at the recent MySQL user conference. Rothschild says Facebook is now running 10,000 servers, including 1,800 MySQL servers that are overseen by just two database administrators.

  

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Apr/23/facebook_now_running_10000_web_servers.html

What a Launch Wave it has been! I've just returned from celebrating Windows Server 2008 with many of you all over the world. It was great to hear your stories and see how Windows Server 2008 will fit into many of your organizations. For those of you who were not able to attend a launch event, check out www.heroescommunitylaunch.com to find a community event in your area. Also make sure to check out the Virtual Launch Experience at www.heroeshappenhere.com/vle.

On another note, we are still doing some very cool things around Windows Server 2008. Check out the information below.

Win a Windows Home Server!

Evalu’08 and you could win!  Download a free trial or take a Virtual Lab of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 or other Microsoft Server products and be entered for a chance to win an HP MediaSmart Server powered by Windows Home Server software.  To sign up and to view the official rules, visit Evalu’08.   

Knowledge Base Article:  How to extend the Windows Server 2008 evaluation period

This article describes how to extend, or re-arm, the windows Server 2008 evaluation period up to 240 days.

Test Drive Windows Server 2008

The Windows Server 2008 test drive allows you to try the latest release from Microsoft instantly. By simply logging onto our test-drive environment using your web browser, you will be able to experience Windows Server 2008 first hand through a collection of short virtual labs and video walk-throughs.

Webcast Series:  24 Hours of Windows Server 2008

Watch these 90-minute Windows Server 2008 webcasts and learn how your organization can leverage the enhancements in Windows Server 2008 improve your organization's networking infrastructure and security, server performance and reliability, remote resource access, and client deployment. Subject matter experts break down what these upgrades mean for your environment and how to take advantage of them. Tune in for live webcasts and stream or download webcasts for on-demand viewing.

· TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 1 of 24): Overview (Level 200)

On-demand

Presenter:  Keith Combs

· TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 2 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture (Level 200)

On-demand

Presenter:  Kevin Remde

· TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 3 of 24): Managing Hyper-V (Level 200)

On-demand

Presenter:  John Baker

· TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 4 of 24): Presentation Virtualization with Terminal Services RemoteApp (Level 200)

On-demand

Presenter:  Chris Avis

· TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 5 of 24): Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access (Level 200)

On-demand

Presenter:  Blain Barton

· TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 06 of 24): Deploying and Migrating to Terminal Server (Level 200)

On-demand

Presenter:  John Baker

· TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 7 of 24): IIS 7.0 Overview and Architecture (Level 200)

On-demand

Presenter:  Chris Avis

· TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 8 of 24): IIS 7.0 Advanced Management (Level 200),

On-demand

Presenter:  Shawn Travers

Hopefully this information will continue to help you with your questions and deployments of Windows Server 2008.

Stay tuned!

- Justin Graham

 

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