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• Previewing Windows Server 2008 R2

  Microsoft seems like the most unlikely company to ship products that really support Enterprise 2.0. After all, the company is the poster child for packaged software. But everything the company is saying here in Orlando at TechEd 2008 is consistent with... Posted Jun 12 2008, 08:22 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008, R2

• Microsoft Says Windows Server 2008 Cuts Power Consumption By 10%

  With electricity prices continuing to skyrocket and processors getting ever hungrier for power, it was only a matter of time beforeMicrosoft (NSDQ: MSFT) chimed in with claims that its latest software can cut energy bills. A Microsoft white paper released... Posted Jun 11 2008, 09:40 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008

• Final release of SQL Server 2008 inches closer

  Microsoft made available to select testers on June 5 the near-final Release Candidate (RC) 0 of SQL Server 2008. As of Friday, Microsoft had released the latest test build of its database to TechNet Plus and Microsoft Developer Network(MSDN) subscribers... Posted Jun 09 2008, 04:17 PM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: 2008, SQL

• Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta

  This is the official software development kit that allows developers to integrate tools, editors, designers, languages, and other features inside Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta. Key features in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta include: Significant... Posted May 20 2008, 07:37 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Visual, Studio, 2008, SDK

• Power Commands for Visual Studio 2008

  PowerCommands 1.1 is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code is included and requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 to allow modification of functionality or as a reference... Posted May 15 2008, 08:38 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Visual, Studio, 2008, Microsoft, Commands, Power

• Windows Small Business Server 2008 - Part 1

  Today, Microsoft announced the release of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 release candidate 0 (RC0) and the pending release of Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 RC0. Both products, along with Windows Home Server, are now marketed as being... Posted May 14 2008, 08:27 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008, Business, Small

• Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison

  A detailed comparison of Visual Studio 2008 is available. Full Article - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx Posted May 12 2008, 10:34 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Visual, Studio, 2008

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1

  Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is not finished yet, but we do have a beta version of the documentation ready for you to read! You can learn about some of the features that you'll see later this year when we release SP1. I recommend starting with... Posted May 12 2008, 10:32 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Visual, Studio, 2008, SP1

• Visual Basic 2008 Samples

  These samples demonstrate many of the new features available with Visual Basic 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 including hundreds Language Integrated Query (LINQ) samples. These samples are broken down into the following areas: Application Samples These... Posted May 09 2008, 08:16 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Visual, 2008, Basic

• SQL Server 2008 Management Improvements – SQL Server Provider for PowerShell (Part 3)

  At the SQL Connections conference in April of 2008 I gave a presentation on some of the new Manageability Improvements for SQL Server 2008. In this blog post I’ll talk about one of those new improvements – our new PowerShell provider for SQL Server. For... Posted Apr 30 2008, 05:41 PM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, 2008, Microsoft, SQL

• Benchmarks fail to explain why Vista falters and Server 2008 succeeds

  Microsoft would like us to believe that Windows Vista and Server 2008 are basically the same and use the same codebase but the two differ slightly in certain areas. It appears that Server 2008 performs better in almost every sense of the term but benchmarks... Posted Apr 20 2008, 01:50 PM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: 2008, Vista

• Cool Tools In Windows Server 2008 Cure Data Management Woes

  With some estimates predicting that as much as 60 percent of companies' data resides outside their corporate data centers, how can solution providers go about managing such an onslaught of information across distributed environments? Companies cannot... Posted Apr 14 2008, 08:58 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008, Tool's

• What's New in SQL Server 2008

  Policy management, query seeks against partitions, Extensible Key Management --the list goes on. SQL Server 2008 offers a lot of new features and enhancements that will make life easier for database administrators. In the April issue of TechNet Magazine... Posted Apr 10 2008, 10:45 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: 2008, SQL, New

• Changes to Remote Administration in Windows Server 2008

  This article describes the differences between Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 when you use the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client to remotely connect to the server for administrative purposes. In Windows Server 2003, you can start the... Posted Dec 18 2007, 10:21 AM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008

• Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate: System Requirements and Installation Documentation 2

  For important information you should know prior to deploying and using the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system, including known issues, see readme.htm on this page. You should familiarize yourself with all of the known issues listed in that... Posted Dec 18 2007, 10:19 AM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Windows, 2008