Entries tagged with windows server - Channel 9

Quick UI with WPK in Windows PowerShell

Larry Larsen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:38:00 GMT

Join James Brundage, PowerShell Tester, as he demonstrates how to Write quick user interfaces with WPK. This video should help people get started writing rich WPF user interfaces in PowerShell script. WPK is available as part of the PowerShellPack, which is available on the Windows 7 resource kit CD and on CodeGallery (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack) .

Continue your video tour of Windows PowerShell V2 via MSDN Channel9 and TechNET Edge. Find reusable scripts and techniques at the PowerShell Script-Center. Subscribe to the RSS feed at the Team Blog for the latest Windows PowerShell information. Get the demo scripts.

Deploying IIS 7.5 + FASTCGI + PHP on Server Core

Phil Pennington — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core introduces support for subsets of the 2.0/3.0/3.5 .NET Framework in addition to a number of other new optional features and roles. These additions extend the role of Server Core system deployments to not only enterprise network service hosting but also to application hosting. The Framework additions make it possible to host The Web Platform including ASP.NET web applications. Windows PowerShell is available along with the integrated IIS Provider. Application Developers should ensure their new and existing Enterprise Solutions integrate well with the Server Core deployment environment.

FastCGI is a language-independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance. The FastCGI extension is available in IIS 7.5 and enables application frameworks such as PHP to achieve improved performance and stability on Internet Information Services.

This demo illustrates FastCGI configuration on a Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Core deployment target.

Learn more at the IIS Extensions portal.

Take a video tour of Server Core application development scenarios via MSDN Channel9 and find detailed samples on MSDN Code Gallery. See live Server Core demos at the Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Tour.

Windows PowerShell : Variables, Types, and Operators

Phil Pennington — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:44:00 GMT

Join James Brundage, PowerShell Test Team SDE, as he introduces Variables, Types, and Operators.

Windows PowerShell is a Windows command-line shell designed for ease-of-use not only by system administrators but also for application and system developers. The shell includes an interactive prompt and a scripting environment that can be used independently or in combination. PowerShell V2 is available by default with both R2 and Windows 7 and, via an optional update, previous versions of Windows.

For Developers specifically, Windows PowerShell in combination with the Windows Management Infrastructure (WinRM, WS-Management, WMI) provides a great way to automate server hosted solutions.   For example, if you implement all your administration logic via PowerShell, then layer the MMC GUI over the top (i.e. MMC calls PowerShell to get the work done) - you will have given your Enterprise customers the absolute best of all worlds; GUIs, scripting, and delegated, remote automation.

Unlike most scripting shells, which accept and return text, Windows PowerShell is integrated with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework, and thus deals in .NET objects instead of just text strings. This fundamental change in the environment brings entirely new tools and methods to the management and configuration of Windows.   Application Developers may extend their solutions with custom PowerShell based object models that integrate seamlessly with platform management solutions.

Like many shells, Windows PowerShell gives you access to the file system on the computer. In addition, Windows PowerShell providers enable you to access other data stores, such as the registry and the digital signature certificate stores, as easily as you access the file system.

Version 2 of Windows Powershell introduces an array of new features including remote sessions, an integrated script environment, debugging tools, and much more.

Continue your video tour of PowerShell V2 via MSDN Channel9 and TechNET Edge. Don't miss the reusable scripts and techniques at the PowerShell Script-Center website. Subscribe to the PowerShell Team Blog RSS Feed for the latest info.

See related episodes here.

Windows PowerShell : Remote Session Custom Configuration

Phil Pennington — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:14:00 GMT

Join Krishna Vutukuri, Windows PowerShell SDE, as he demonstrates how to customize remote session behaviour using session configuration concepts. Example usage scenarios include invocation of start-up scripts and domain-user feature access restrictions.

Continue your video tour of Windows PowerShell V2 via MSDN Channel9 and TechNET Edge. Find reusable scripts and techniques at the PowerShell Script-Center. Subscribe to the RSS feed at the Team Blog for the latest Windows PowerShell information. Get the demo scripts.

Windows PowerShell : Advanced Remote Sessions

Phil Pennington — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:20:00 GMT

Join Krishna Vutukuri, Windows PowerShell SDE, as he demonstrates advanced remoting concepts including command execution across a set of machines, session connection optimization, user-prompts within remote sessions, background jobs, connection state information, and passing session arguments.

Continue your video tour of Windows PowerShell V2 via MSDN Channel9 and TechNET Edge. Find reusable scripts and techniques at the PowerShell Script-Center. Subscribe to the RSS feed at the Team Blog for the latest Windows PowerShell information. Get the demo scripts.

Windows PowerShell : Remote Sessions

Phil Pennington — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:57:00 GMT

Join Krishna Vutukuri, Windows PowerShell SDE, as he demonstrates how to create and use Romote Sessions. Learn how to invoke remote commands, establish remote session persistence, and enter an existing session.

Continue your video tour of Windows PowerShell V2 via MSDN Channel9 and TechNET Edge. Find reusable scripts and techniques at the PowerShell Script-Center. Subscribe to the RSS feed at the Team Blog for the latest Windows PowerShell information. Get the demo scripts.

Windows PowerShell : Create Object CmdLets

Phil Pennington — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:09:00 GMT

Join James Brundage, Windows PowerShell Test Team SDE, as he demonstrates how to create your own Object CmdLets.

Continue your video tour of Windows PowerShell V2 via MSDN Channel9 and TechNET Edge. Find reusable scripts and techniques at the PowerShell Script-Center. Subscribe to the RSS feed at the Team Blog for the latest Windows PowerShell information. Get the demo scripts.

Windows PowerShell : -Object Family of CmdLets and the Object Pipeline

Phil Pennington — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:07:00 GMT

Join James Brundage, Windows PowerShell Test Team SDE, as he introduces the -Object family of cmdlets.

Continue your video tour of Windows PowerShell V2 via MSDN Channel9 and TechNET Edge. Find reusable scripts and techniques at the PowerShell Script-Center. Subscribe to the RSS feed at the Team Blog for the latest Windows PowerShell information. Get the demo scripts.

Windows PowerShell : Arrays, Conditionals, Collections, and Loops

Phil Pennington — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:59:00 GMT

Join James Brundage, Windows PowerShell Test Team SDE, as he introduces Arrays, Conditionals, Collections, and Loops.

Continue your video tour of Windows PowerShell V2 via MSDN Channel9 and TechNET Edge. Don't miss the reusable scripts and techniques at the PowerShell Script-Center website. Subscribe to the PowerShell Team Blog RSS Feed for the latest info.

Soni Meinke: From Fargo to Redmond, Engineering Windows Customer Satisfaction

Charles — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:56:00 GMT

Meet Soni Meinke, a senior program manager in the Windows Server group. From Fargo to Redmond, Soni talks about her successful yet non-technical path in the world of high-tech, and illustrates the point on how it takes all types. With a newspaper and communications background, Soni now works with early adopter customers.

How To Debug 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 a remote debug session. 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 Server Core postings at http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/R2CORE.

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: Optimizing Applications for Remote File Services over the WAN

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:03 GMT

Windows 7 introduces many improvements designed to improve the file access experience for mobile users and users in branch offices. In this session, we introduce fundamental changes to the opportunistic locking model, discuss the various caching mechanisms, and explain how to ensure that your applications benefit from them. Hear about common programming patterns that lead to unnecessary network roundtrips and end-user delays. Learn how to write network-friendly applications that are WAN and branch ready.

Mathew George
Mathew George is a senior developer with the file access and distribution team. He is a co-designer of the SMB2 protocol stack and currently involved in the development of the SMB2 client filesystem stack for the Windows platform.

Extending Terminal Services and Hyper-V VDI in Windows 7

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:02 GMT

Come learn about advanced topics in the Windows Graphics remoting architecture (RDP 7).This talk introduces new Windows 7 remoting features, discusses how they are going to be leveraged in Microsoft's Windows 7 client and server products. Finally, this presentation covers how you can integrate well with core remoting infrastructure services to enhance your applications to run from anywhere, so that your applications will be available to end-users when they are on-the-go.

Niraj Agarwala
Christa Anderson

Windows 7 Presentation Virtualization: Graphics Remoting ( RDP) Today and Tomorrow

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:00 GMT

Staying productive when you're mobile is getting easier, thanks to RDP 7 Graphics remoting technology.

Nadim Abdo
Gaurav Daga

Web Application Packaging and Deployment

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:50 GMT

In this session, you will learn how to use powerful new UI and command line tools for Web application packaging and deployment, and you'll dive under the hood of Visual Studio 10 to see how it will support one-click deployment to IIS. You'll learn how to transform your development settings to make them production ready and how a real world shared hosting environment may be securely connected to a developer web application in VS10. You will also hear best practices for setting up your server and development environment to get huge productivity gains.

Saad Ladki

IIS 7.0 and Beyond: The Microsoft Web Platform Roadmap

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:48 GMT

The Web doesn't sit still and neither do you. One of the key features of IIS 7.0 is the ability to extend and customize almost any aspect of the Web server through .NET APIs, and the IIS team is already building and releasing modular extensions that add even more power and functionality to the platform. In this session, you'll learn about these new modules and future extensions, and what to expect from IIS in Windows Server 2008 R2.

Vijay Sen

How to Develop Supercomputer Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:46 GMT

Learn about both traditional and new High Performance Computing (HPC) programming models enabled via Windows HPC Server 2008. Discover how the Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MPI) enables distributed parallel computing scenarios and how to host Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services within a highly scalable compute cluster.

Jeff Baxter
Sean Mortazavi
Sean Mortazavi is an architect at Microsoft in the HPC group focusing on Developer Tools. Prior to WHPC he was in the Visual Studio and MSR divisions where he worked on Microsoft's next generation of compilers, JITs and Static Analysis tools. Before Microsoft he was at Sun Microsystems where he led the compiler code generation & optimization groups.

Exposing Connected Home Services to the Internet via Windows Home Server

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:43 GMT

Learn how to leverage the Remote Access platform in Windows Home Server to expose on-premises services running in the connected home to the Internet. See how to expose a home automation service running on Windows Home Server to the Internet, and watch a demonstration that shows how to expose services that may be hosted on other devices inside the connected home using Windows Home Server as a gateway. Finally, see a sneak preview of Home Server and Live Mesh working together to further enhance the remote experience for the connected home.

Brendan Grant
CJ Saretto
CJ is a North Carolina native from the small town of New Bern. For those who've never heard of New Bern (the vast majority I'm sure), it was the colonial capiatol of NC as well as the birth place of Pepsi Cola. CJ attended NC State University where he recieved his BS and MS in Computer Science before transplanting himself to western Washington to work for Microsoft just over 7 years ago. CJ has worked on a number of projects at Microsoft including threedegrees, Windows Live (then MSN) Messenger, and (most recently) Windows Home Server.

Developing Connected Home Applications and Services for Windows Home Server

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:42 GMT

Learn how to build applications and services deployed on Windows Home Server that power PCs and devices throughout a connected home. See an example home automation and energy management service, and watch the creation of an on-premises service that exposes HVAC, window shades, and lighting controls to all devices on the home network. Hear how to package the service as a Windows Home Server add-in, quickly create a configuration UI, deploy a PC application for controlling the service, and demonstrate control from other devices such as TVs and cell phones.

CJ Saretto
CJ is a North Carolina native from the small town of New Bern. For those who've never heard of New Bern (the vast majority I'm sure), it was the colonial capiatol of NC as well as the birth place of Pepsi Cola. CJ attended NC State University where he recieved his BS and MS in Computer Science before transplanting himself to western Washington to work for Microsoft just over 7 years ago. CJ has worked on a number of projects at Microsoft including threedegrees, Windows Live (then MSN) Messenger, and (most recently) Windows Home Server.
Fabian Uhse
Fabian hails from Germany. He lives and studies in the town of Cottbus located near Berlin. Fabian attended the Brandenburg University of Technology where he received his BS degree in Information and Media Technology. He is currently a graduate student in his last year before writing his master thesis. He has worked for Microsoft Germany for about 2 years as a Senior Student Partner. In short, he leads regional group of “student evangelists” that advocate the use of Microsoft development tools in academia. Fabian most recently began an internship as a program manager on the Windows Home Server team in Redmond, Washington.

Developing Solutions for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Using WMI

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:40 GMT

Hyper-V provides new capabilities through its WMI APIs. Learn how to apply these APIs while creating your own solutions.

Nihar Shah
My name is Nihar Shah, and I work on the Hyper-V team at Microsoft. I have been working in the virtualization space for 8 years, dating back to my pre-Microsoft days at Connectix. Among other things, I am the lead in charge of defining and implementing the Hyper-V WMI object model.

Enabling Test Automation Using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:37 GMT

With Hyper-V, you can decrease your software test cycles, improve your test coverage, and provide testers and developers a safe, scalable test bed for applications. In this session we introduce the concepts that can assist you in development of an automation framework that can take advantage of Hyper-V.

Taylor Brown
Taylor Brown is a Test Lead in the Windows Core Operating System (COSD) division focused on ensuring customers and partners are enabled to fully utilize Windows virtualization technology. He has been focused on Virtualization since 2004 working on Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Virtual Server R2 and Hyper-V. Prior to joining the Core OS division Taylor worked on the Microsoft Smart Watch Project also known as MSN Direct as well as Windows power management and Windows 1394/fire wire teams.