b5media.com

Advertise with us

Enjoying this blog? Check out the rest of the Technology Channel Subscribe to this Feed

Microsoft Weblog

Windows Server 2008 - Paul Hacker presentation

by Jason Bean on April 10th, 2008

windows-server-2008

I’m currently attending an IndyNDA event, a local .NET developer’s group meeting in Indianapolis. The speaker, Paul Hacker is talking about Windows Server 2008.

Initial benefits he’s talking about is:

  • less involved (babysitting) on the install
  • no features enabled by default (allowing complete development and customization at the point of install)
  • new server management screen
  • Windows PowerShell - allowing more remote administration options. “Command prompt on steroids”
  • 700 new policy options and functionality
  • Server Core
  • Windows Firewall w/ Advanced Security
  • Failover Clustering
  • Read-Only Domain Controllers
  • numerous improvements to Active Directory
  • new IIS 7.0 (Internet Information Services 7.0), run PHP on Windows Server machine using FastCGI
  • Virtualization improvements - hypervisor: Presentation Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Application Virtualization
  • Security Technologies: Network Access Protection

I don’t really have any personal experience with managing Windows Server for anything, other than just being another end-user like everyone else. Some of the features that Paul Hacker spoke of coming in this latest version sound pretty good though. Some of these features make me feel even more that Microsoft is still pushing a more open-source effort.

Tags: , , , , , ,

POSTED IN: .NET, Business Users, New Products, Servers, Windows Server 2008

0 opinions for Windows Server 2008 - Paul Hacker presentation

  • No one has left a comment yet. You know what this means, right? You could be first!

Have an opinion? Leave a comment: