Windows Server 2008 Presentation
Posted by admin on 21st March 2008
Catalyst Software Solutions is a member of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP) and we are active in events within the Chicago-land area. The IAMCP is a community of partners who work together and with Microsoft to facilitate mutual growth and business development among partners.
Last month they asked if anyone would be willing to give a presentation on the new features of Windows Server 2008. I took the challenge and created a presentation on the two features that I feel have the greatest impact. My two points of focus where Hyper-V virtualization and IIS7. My boss, Ken, added to ‘Green IT’ topic to the presentation which I had completely skipped over. Green IT is becoming a strong driver in the IT community and I am glad he suggested it.
Hyper-V
We have been using virtualization at Catalyst for about 3 years and we have found it to be a great technology for both production infrastructure and development scenarios. We are currently running 3 VM hosts with roughly 15 guest OSs using Virtual Server 2005 R2 and are looking forward to upgrading to Hyper-V and eliminating the poor web based configuration user interface.
IIS7
I have been running IIS7 under Vista for a long time and couldn’t wait to be able to actually deploy web applications to production servers under IIS7. Microsoft did a good job of taunting the developer community for over a year before this finally became a reality.
Presentation
Here is the power presentation I used on 3/18/2008. A majority of the slides are ones that I found on the Ready-To-Go campaign web site. The presentation went about 70 minutes with an additional 10-15 minutes of Q&A afterwards. Overall people liked the presentation and felt it did a good job of describing the business and technical value of Windows Server 2008.
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