Appart from Windows Vista and Windows 7 Learning Snacks series, now its time for Server 2008. Following are some of the Windows server 2008 snacks released at Microsoft learning center.
I have blogged that Microsoft has Introduced Windows 7 in Silverlight Snack player. Now few more Learning Snacks for Windows 7 are available.
As described in earlier post Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning (our mother org) experts. Each Snack is delivered by using Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos.
For IT professionals:
For Home users:
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Garbage collection in Microsoft .NET common language runtime environment completely absolves the developer from tracking memory usage and knowing when to free memory. However you’ll want to understand how it works.
This session will highlight how resources are allocated and managed and then provide a detailed step-by-step description of how the garbage collection algorithm works. You will also learn the way resources can be cleaned up properly when the garbage collector decides to free a resource’s memory and how to force an object to clean up when it is freed.
Language(s): English.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: 28 April 2009 14:00 India
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PowerShell MVP and prodigious PowerShell blogger Keith Hill has converted his very popular Effective PowerShell blog series into a FREE Ebook.
Now its your chance to learn something new and to discover the best techniques and practices for security on Microsoft technologies and platforms.
At this half-day event, the focus will be the one topic that impacts all of us: securing your IT infrastructure. A number of guest speakers will join us to help us determine the best methods for keeping your systems safe, including employees from Microsoft!
Microsoft is offering this months free e-books in the celebration of Microsoft Press’s 25th anniversary.
Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition
By Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, and Jerry Honeycutt with the Windows Vista Team
Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!
By Patrice Pelland
Windows Server 2008 R2 – Technical Overview
In this session we’ll provide a technical update on the Windows Server 2008 R2 beta. Technologies covered include Virtualization and in particular Hyper-V with Live Migration; new management features such as PowerShell 2.0; new Web workload features and how R2 is a solid foundation for your enterprise with new features such as DirectAccess and BranchCache. There will be several demo’s in this session to give you a hands-on look at some of these new and exciting features.
Date: Friday February 20th 2009
Time: 11:00AM – 12:15PM (GMT +10 Sydney Daylight Savings Time)
Location: Live MeetingRegistration: Click here
Windows 7 – An Update for IT Pro’s
In this session we’ll discuss what Windows 7 means for the IT Pro and enterprises and mid-market customers in general. Technologies covered include DirectAccess, BranchCache, Federated Search, Bitlocker to Go and the ways in which Windows 7 streamlines PC management. Demo’s include DirectAccess, BranchCache, Bitlocker to Go, User Account Control changes and many of the management changes.
Date: Friday March 6th 2009
Time: 11:00AM – 12:15PM (GMT +10 Sydney Daylight Savings Time)
Location: Live Meeting
Registration: Click here
Two new documents were released recently that describe the new Hyper-V features in Windows Server 2008 R2 currently in Beta and how to implement them in a test environment. The first document details the much discussed Live Migration feature and the architecture behind it. The second is a step by step guide for setting it up to see for yourself.
If you have set up Hyper-V host clustering previously, it is quite easy to set up and utilize the new features in R2. If you haven’t previously worked with host clustering, be sure to follow the step by step guide closely and it shouldn’t take long before you are up and running.
Windows Server 2008 R2 & Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 – Hyper-V Live Migration Overview & Architecture
“One of the most highly anticipated new features in Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ is live migration. This document describes the live migration feature of Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ in detail, including how live migration moves running VMs and requirements for implementing live migration”
Hyper-V: Step-by-Step Guide to Using Live Migration in Windows Server 2008 R2
“This guide details the steps required to perform a live migration of Hyper-V™ virtual machines from one node in a Windows Server® 2008 R2 failover cluster to another node.”
The Visual Studio Team over at Microsoft has introduced a very useful learning package to help learn about computer programming. Whether you are a teacher, a student of an Algorithms course or just a plain hobbyist; this package with its powerful feature-set could really get you started with some of the basic computer programming paradigms.
File Name: VSLPSetup.en.zip
Version: 2.0
Date Published: 1/23/2009
Language: English
Download Size: 3.8 MB
The Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0 consists of the five components described below:
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