Windows Server 2008

In this video, Kyle Rosenthal demonstrates how to create a custom Windows PE environment - from obtaining the original image to being ready to deploy either via a bootable CD or USB drive. He demonstrates the file structure and how to prepare the Windows PE to be able to use in your deployments.

Learn how to use the OCS planning tool to build simple single server OCS configurations all the way to multi site multi server complex configurations which may include both voice and video. Also learn how to use the planning tool to lean about and plan your next OCS installation.

Learn how to extend the native OCS tracing engine to return plain English results readable by human beings. The example used centres around troubleshooting OCS client's login issues on an OCS standard server.

In this video Scott Golightly shows how to use the data compression feature of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and Developer Editions. In addition to showing how to enable data compression, Scott discusses the effect it can have on the size of your table, when you may not want to use it, and shows examples of how to see if compression is having the desired result.

The Windows SharePoint Services Recycle Bin provides a recycle bin facility to the users of your site, including a multi-level restore capability available to site collection administrators. This feature provides some configuration and has some capacity implications, so join Hilton Giesenow as he describes how to configure and make use of the Recycle Bin.

Building off the great work done on Windows Server 2008, I’m happy to share that next week, a small group of Technology Adoption Program customers will be getting their hands on Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Beta. As we have done in the past, we routinely start testing a service pack release for Windows Server with a small group of testers first before making the beta more broadly available to the public. Windows Server 2008 helped make major strides in the areas of Web, Virtualization, and Security. SP2 builds upon this by enhancing the operating system for IT Professionals.

Windows Server 2008 SP2 addresses feedback from our customers. It contains all previously released fixes integrated into a single service pack covering both server (Windows Server 2008) and client (Windows Vista) versions. We adopted a single serviceability model for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista when we launched Windows Server 2008. Because of this, Microsoft can provide customers with a single, high-quality update that minimizes deployment and testing complexity.

In addition to the above, Windows Server 2008 SP2 contains two changes that will ease deployment and help reduce cost.

- Hyper-V RTM is included

- Additional changes to the power profile have yielded a 10% improvement over the power profile of Windows Server 2008 RTM

These two changes will help customers save money and ease deployment of Hyper-V for IT Professionals.

I’m very excited about SP2 and will share more information in the coming months.

 

Justin Graham
Senior Technical Product Manager
Windows Server Group