Entries tagged with server 2008 r2 - Channel 9

New File Classification Infrastructure - Part 4, The FCI API

Phil Pennington — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:56:00 GMT

The File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is a new Windows Server technology included within the File Server Role. FCI is available with Windows Server 2008 R2.

FCI is used to:

1. Define file classification properties.

2. Define automatic classification policies, rules, and triggers.

3. Develop custom extensions.

In this episode, learn how to use the FCI API's within the Windows 7 SDK to build custom FCI extensions. See the additional episodes and learn more at Code Gallery and the FCI team blog.

See more Windows Server 2008 R2 on Channel9.

Try-out the new Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit.

Explore MSDN Code Gallery projects. Find additional resources at the FCI Homepage.

New File Classification Infrastructure - Part 3, Business Critical Files

Phil Pennington — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:56:00 GMT

The File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is a new Windows Server technology included within the File Server Role. FCI is available with Windows Server 2008 R2.

FCI is used to:

1. Define file classification properties.

2. Define automatic classification policies, rules, and triggers.

3. Develop custom extensions.

In this episode, learn how to use FCI to establish custom business policies and rules. See the additional episodes and learn more at Code Gallery and the FCI team blog.

Find more resources at the FCI homepage.

New File Classification Infrastructure - Part 2, Compressing Stagnant Files

Phil Pennington — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:56:00 GMT

Additional resources on the FCI homepage.

New File Classfication Infrastructure - Part 1, How to Manage Stale Data

Phil Pennington — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:55:00 GMT

The File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is a new Windows Server technology included within the File Server Role. FCI is available with Windows Server 2008 R2.

FCI is used to:

1. Define file classification properties.

2. Define automatic classification policies, rules, and triggers.

3. Develop custom extensions.

In this episode, learn how an IT Admin would use FCI to identify and manage stale data within the file system. See the additional episodes and learn more at Code Gallery and the FCI team blog.

Additional resources on the FCI hompage.

The C++ Concurrency Runtime - Asynchronous Agents Library

Phil Pennington — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:55:00 GMT

The Asynchronous Agents Library (or just Agents Library) provides a programming model that enables you to increase the robustness of concurrency-enabled application development. The Agents Library is a C++ template library that promotes an actor-based programming model and in-process message passing for fine-grained dataflow and pipelining tasks. The Agents Library builds upon the scheduling and resource management components of the Concurrency Runtime.

The agent class itself is intended for course grained parallelism/components that handle larger computationally intensive tasks or collections of smaller tasks. Fundamentally, agents are tasks that have an observable lifecycle and communicate with other agents by using message passing. Agents are NOT intended to be used for fine-grained parallelism; for that, the patterns and constructs in the Parallel Patterns Library are better suited.

You'll want to subscribe to the Native Concurrency blog, find more resource and download example code from Code Gallery.

The C++ Concurrency Runtime - Parallel Patterns Library

Phil Pennington — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:55:00 GMT

The C++ Concurrency Runtime is new with Visual Studio 2010 and currently in beta. The runtime encapsulates and extends many new operating system features including NUMA resource locality and User-Mode-Scheduling.

The Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) provides an imperative programming model that promotes scalability and ease-of-use for developing concurrent applications. The PPL raises the level of abstraction between your application code and the underlying thread/task scheduling mechanisms by providing generic, type-safe algorithms and containers that act on data in parallel. The PPL also enables you to develop applications that scale by providing alternatives to shared state.

The PPL provides the following features:

Task Parallelism: a mechanism to execute several work items (tasks) in parallel.
Parallel algorithms: generic algorithms that act on collections of data in parallel.
Parallel containers and objects: generic container types that provide safe concurrent access to their elements.

By using PPL, you can introduce fine-grained parallelism without even having to manage a scheduler. You would use the Asynchronous Agents Library instead to express coarse-grained parallelism.

You'll want to subscribe to the Native Concurrency blog, find more resource and download example code from Code Gallery.

Trigger Started Services

Phil Pennington — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:10:00 GMT

The Windows operating system features built-in infrastructure services (Service Control Manager and Task Scheduler) that help manage background processes. Windows takes advantage of the built-in services to provide system management, device management, and system maintenance functionality.

Significant improvements have been made to this infrastructure for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Developers can use these improvements to develop Windows services that are efficient and that contribute to the overall system performance and security.

For example, a service can register to be started or stopped when a trigger event occurs. This eliminates the need for services to start when the system starts, or for services to poll or actively wait for an event; a service can start when it is needed, instead of starting automatically whether or not there is work to do.

Watch this demo to see an illustration of how to develop a service which starts on system triggered events.

Learn more at the MSDN Library. See the step-by-step guide with sample code.

How to Deploy ASP.NET Applications on Server Core

Phil Pennington — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:32:00 GMT

Leverage Windows Server 2008 R2 "Server Core" as an Application Server!

ASP.NET is now an optional feature on Server Core. Learn how to configure IIS and deploy an ASP.NET application. Watch this demo and read more detailed information at the following MSDN Code Gallery project page:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/R2CoreASPNET

See additional W2K8 R2 postings at http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/W2K8R2.

How to Debug Native-Code Server Core Applications

Phil Pennington — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:51:00 GMT

Leverage Windows Server 2008 R2 "Server Core" as an Application Server!

Remote debugging is easy with Visual Studio. Watch this demo and read more detailed information at the following MSDN Code Gallery project page:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/R2CoreApps

See related Channel9 content at:
http://Channel9.msdn.com/tags/W2K8R2

How to Debug .NET Server Core Applications

Phil Pennington — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:50:00 GMT

Leverage Windows Server 2008 R2 "Server Core" as an Application Server!

Remote debugging is easy using Visual Studio. Watch this demo and read more detailed information at the following MSDN Code Gallery project page:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/R2CoreApps

See related Channel9 content at:
http://Channel9.msdn.com/tags/W2K8R2

How To Develop .NET Applications for Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Core

Phil Pennington — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:30:00 GMT

Leverage Windows Server 2008 R2 "Server Core" as an Application Server!

There are several configuration options to consider when developing managed-code applications to run on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2. Watch this demo and read more detailed information at the following MSDN Code Gallery project page.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/R2CoreApps

How To Develop C++ Applications for Windows 2008 R2, Server Core

Phil Pennington — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:30:00 GMT

Leverage Windows Server 2008 R2 "Server Core" as an Application Server!

There are several configuration options to consider when developing native-code applications to run on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2. Watch this demo and read more detailed information at the following MSDN Code Gallery project page.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/R2CoreApps

Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7

Charles — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:39:00 GMT

How has Windows evolved, as a general purpose operating system and at the lowest levels, in Windows 7? Who better to talk to than Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel guru Mark Russinovich? Here, Mark enlightens us on the new kernel constructs in Windows 7 (and, yeah, we do wander up into user mode, but only briefly). One very important change in the Windows 7 kernel is the dismantling of the dispatcher spin lock and redesign and implementation of its functionality. This great work was done by Arun Kishan (you've met him here on C9 last year). EDIT: You can learn exactly what Arun did in eliminating the dispatcher lock and replacing it with a set of synchronization primitives and a new "pre-wait" thread state, here. The direct result of the reworking of the dispatcher lock is that Windows 7 can scale to 256 processors. Further, this enabled the great Landy Wang to tune the Windows Memory Manager to be even more efficient than it already is. Mark also explains (again) what MinWin really is (heck, even I was confused. Not anymore...). MinWin is present in Windows 7. Native support for VHD (boot from VHD anyone?) is another very cool addition to our next general purpose OS. Yes, and there's more!

Tune in. This is a great conversation (if you're into operating systems). It's always great to chat with Mark.

New NUMA Support with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Demo3

Phil Pennington — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support more than 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer using Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) hardware architectures. New commodity systems are now appearing that leverage NUMA chipset architectures. Many high-end server-class solutions may need to be architected with NUMA awareness in order to achieve linear performance scaling on such systems. Parallel Computing and High Performance Computing solution developers may also find NUMA awareness essential for performance scalability. This is a multi-part series illustrating concepts documented in detail at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/64plusLP. See the related sessions on Channel9 via http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/w2k8r2.

New NUMA Support with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Demo2

Phil Pennington — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

New NUMA Support with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Demo1

Phil Pennington — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors. Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer.

This presentation illustrates enhancements made to the Windows API to support more than 64 processors and enhanced NUMA support. Find detailed NUMA API usage scenarios at Code Gallery.

See related sessions on NUMA.

New NUMA Support with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Phil Pennington — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors. Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer.

R2 features enhanced support of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer architectures along with new User-Mode Thread Scheduling (UMS) technology. UMS enables custom thread-level scheduling within your own application. For certain categories of computing scenarios, this avoids the overhead of thread kernel transitions and context switching.

Why is this important for Application Developers? New commodity computer systems will soon appear that leverage many-core architectures. A system with 4 CPU sockets, 8 processor-cores per socket and with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) enabled per core, will readily achieve 64 Logical Processors. Application Developers will want to ensure their applications scale well on this new generation of high-performance commodity systems.

This presentation illustrates enhancements made to the Windows API to support more than 64 processors and enhanced NUMA support. Find detailed NUMA API usage scenarios at Code Gallery.

See related sessions on NUMA, UMS, and Concurrency.

Windows 7: Designing Efficient Background Processes

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:00 GMT

Inefficient background activity has a dramatic impact on system performance, power consumption, responsiveness, and memory footprint. This session demonstrates best practices for background process design and dives deep on the capabilities of the Service Control Manager (SCM) and Task Scheduler. It also covers how to use new Windows 7 infrastructure to develop efficient background tasks.

Vikram Singh

Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:00 GMT

Windows 7 introduces a new networking API with support for building SOAP based web services in native code. This session discusses the programming model, interoperability aspects with other implementations of WS-* protocols, and demonstrates various services and applications built using this API.

Nikola Dudar

Nikola Dudar is a program manager on Windows Networking team. He is working on a new Windows API for connecting web services and native code. In his previous position, he was a Program Manager on Visual C++ team. He worked on building new features in VC++ libraries. Prior joining Microsoft, Nikola has been involved in a research of architectures for data warehouses used in scientific data analysis and machine learning. He has MS in Computer Science degree from the University of New Mexico and MS degree in Control Systems and Automation from Vinnytsya National Technical University.

Developing Applications for More Than 64 Logical Processors in Windows Server 2008 R2

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:00 GMT

Windows 7 will support more than 64 logical processors with improved kernel scheduler mechanisms that enable efficient scaling. Learn how to use new system software affinity APIs to aid application scalability beyond 64 logical processors through the use of "Kernel Groups." Kernel Groups allow for legacy processor affinity aware applications to perform well while applications and drivers using new APIs can take advantage of all processors on the system.

Arie van der Hoeven

Arie has been at Microsoft for 10 years working on technologies including ACPI, Windows Embedded, PCI Express, Plug and Play, WOW64, Server Power Management, Windows Hardware Error Architecture, and Scale Up. Prior to working at Microsfot he was an IT administrator, educator and US Army officer.

Developing with Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET for Server Core

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:00 GMT

In the next release of Windows Server, the Server Core installation option will support a subset of .NET and ASP.NET allowing your managed applications and web servers to take advantage of the reduced management and maintenance that Server Core provides. Learn about writing new code for-and how to ensure existing code works within-the subset of .NET and ASP.NET that are in Server Core. In addition, this session covers how to use the existing toolset, a command line environment, to troubleshoot and debug on Server Core.

Ian Robinson
Andrew Mason