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Screencast: Network Access Protection with 802.1x (Part 1)

Posted By: Jeff Alexander | Today @ 12:01 AM
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One of the most important features of Windows Server 2008 is Network Access Protection.  In it’s simplest terms NAP is a platform Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista for implementing client health requirements on your network. We all know that clients become unhealthy for many reasons.  NAP enforces client health requirements that you defines to make sure that your PC’s in your environment stay healthy. I’ve done presentations and demo’s on this many times so I thought it was about time to to turn the demo’s I’ve done into a screencast.  So I needed to break this down into 2 parts.  In part…[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Client Health, NAP, Network Access Protection, Security, Windows Server 2008

Inside the SQL 2008 Ship room

Posted By: Joey Snow | Aug 19th @ 12:01 AM
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Have you ever wondered what the last meeting before a product ships is like?  I used to think that it was a very NASA like "go or no go" with a bunch of people in a room in front of computers and wearing headsets.[Click to read the full post ]
Tag: SQL Server 2008

Application Virtualization - real world experience

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Aug 15th @ 12:01 AM
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Earlier this year, Microsoft hosted a summit for MVP's.  I was able to sit down with Nelson Ruest and his partner to talk about some of their experiences in deploying Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid) in production.
Tags: Application Virtualization, Customer Story, Softgrid

EBS Security demo and PM interview

Posted By: David Tesar | Aug 11th @ 12:01 AM
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Lingan Satkunanathan, program manager on the Essential Business Server team, tells us about a number of different things around security in EBS.  More specifically, some of the things he covers are:

  • How EBS locks down security out of the box
  • What security settings you might need to change after setup
  • IPSec, NAP, and group policy security settings

At 10:00, we get a demo of the EBS security management tab/console which includes:

  • Firewall tasks and settings
  • Forefront Client Security / Client AV story
  • Email Anti-Malware / Anti-Spam

At the end we finish with a peek into the future of EBS with things like Forefront Stirling integration.

Learn more about EBS
Tags: EBS, PM

Trivadis and SQL Server 2008 Customer story

Posted By: David Tesar | Aug 8th @ 12:01 AM
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Meinrad Weiss is a principal consultant at Trivadis AG and Microsoft MSDN Regional Director Switzerland who among other things conduct database migration, like for example from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008.  In this video, he tells us:

- Advantages they have seen with SQL 2008 analysis services over SQL 2005

- Some benefits of SQL 2008 reporting services (such as up to 10 times faster performance on certain queries)

- Highlights improvements in the relational database with SQL 2008

- Things to look out for when implementing filestreams

SQL 2008 has hit RTM!

Learn more about SQL 2008

 
Tags: Customer Story, SQL

Read Only Domain Controller Administration

Posted By: Joey Snow | Aug 6th @ 12:01 AM
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Corey Hynes is back with another cool screencast.  This time Corey discusses how we can manage passwords on Read Only Domain Controllers as well as recovery from the worst case possible scenario of a stolen domain controller.
Tags: RODC, Windows Server 2008

Server 2008 and Active Directory snapshot software at QBranch

Posted By: David Tesar | Aug 4th @ 12:01 AM
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Joachim Nasslander, Solution specialist at QBranch in Sweden, starts off by telling us about their own company's ~50 server and ~5,000 customer server environment which has been running Windows Server 2008 since 2006.

At 02:27 Fredrik Lindstrom, Developer at QBranch, tells us about active directory snapshot software he wrote to compare the snapshot versions and restore deleted objects and their values in AD.  He tells us about some of the limitations and plans for the program moving forward.

At 4:06 Fredrik gives us a demo of the software.

You can download Fredrik's program here:
http://lindstrom.nullsession.com/?page_id=11

Learn more about Server 2008
Learn more about AD snapshots
Tags: AD, Customer Story, Windows Server 2008

TechNet Edge - now localized!

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Aug 1st @ 12:01 AM
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You may have noticed a recent change in the layout on Edge, and there have been some behind the scene changes, too.  If you'd prefer a language other than English for the Edge menus, you can now change your localization settings in your profile!  cool!
(we know it's a little buggy.  Please post comments here if you notice translation errors or other stuff we should fix)
Tag: Edge

What's cool with Unified Communications?

Posted By: Joey Snow | Jul 30th @ 12:01 AM
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I caught up with Joe Schurman at TechEd and we talked about the cool and new happenings with Unified Communications.  Joe gives us some insight on the things that folks asked him at the UC booth and gives us a really cool improbability demo on his Mac.  Joe also talks about some new things on the horizon for the small to mid-size market.
Tags: OCS, TechEd08

TechEd 2008: SQL Policy Based Management

Posted By: Joey Snow | Jul 28th @ 12:01 AM
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Back in March we sat down with Dan Jones on the SQL team and he gave us the 50,000 foot level view of the new Policy Based Management feature in SQL 2008.  With the release of RC0 for SQL Server 2008, I decided to revisit Dan as well as Hongfei Guo and get more details on the how's and why's of PBM as well as have them demo this really great management tool.
Tag: TechEd08
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