Windows Server 2008 R2 & Windows 7 – Under the Hood

Alon Fliess — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:57 GMT

Anyone that missed the Windows Platform Developers user group meeting and the lecture about kernel changes in Windows NT 6.1 (I know at least about someone that asked me about a video recording of the event) don’t worry. In the coming SDP event, Dima and I will have a lecture about the internal of Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 and about the new changes and enhancements of the system. This is the agenda:

29/12/2009 (11:00-12:15)

Server Side (SSD101)

Come and explore the engine of Windows NT 6.1. In this lecture you'll see the major changes in the kernel of NT 6.1. Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 systems are modern multi-purpose operating systems that need to run on many hardware platforms, starting with very weak computers such as Atom based netbooks to very powerful servers such as HP Superdom machine with 256 cores and 1TB of Ram. In this lecture you'll see the architecture of Windows and how the changes in the Windows kernel support the new demanding needs. Among the topics:

Windows NT 6.1 Architecture
NT Kernel changes
Scalability Changes
Power Consumption Improvement
NUMA Support
User Mode Scheduler

Sela Developer Practice

Alon Fliess — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:55:00 GMT

We are going to the PDC. And when I say we, I mean 17 experts and 3 managers from Sela. This year we are going to be in all sessions and meet many key professionals from Microsoft and other companies. We will also have a booth. Why do I tell you that? Not just to tell you that it is fun to work at Sela (It is, but it is also very demanding) and that we are investing in our people, but to announce that we are going to talk about all current and new technologies that will be revealed in the PDC in a special conference named SDP – Sela Developer Practice. Save the dates 27-30 December.

The conference is split to two parts, the first part is built from short sessions while the last two days are more like a workshop.

We have two keynote session lecturers from Microsoft, Yochay Kiryaty and Guy Burstein. Yochay has left Microsoft Israel more than a year ago and joined to the Microsoft Redmond DPE. Yochay had worked very hard to bring Windows 7 to the developer community. He worked very close to the developer teams at Redmond and he will talk and demonstrate all the new technologies such as Silverlight 4, WPF 4, .NET 4 and beyond. Guy Burstein works very hard to bring the most up to date knowledge to the developer community in Israel. He had founded the MSDN Pulse, a newsletter in Hebrew that cover the important news from Microsoft as well as publish original technological articles. Guy is pushing the blog community and the offline User Groups meeting. Despite the fact that Guy needs to manage a lot of things he continues to develop and use the new tools from Microsoft. In his keynote session Guy will present the exciting new capabilities of Visual Studio 2010.

Dima and I will have a lecture that deep dive into the kernel changes in Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2. We will talk about 256 core supports, 64bit support with NUMA, the new UMS and more. Noam King & Pini Dayan will talk about the new Version of ASP.NET MVC. Another lecture for the web developer audience will be given by Kosta and Adar. They will talk about the improvements in ASP.NET 4.0. Alex and Ido will talk about Silverlight. Alex will talk about the new features in Silverlight and Ido will show you how to communicate from Silverlight client to your server side application. Shai Raiten has several lectures about the new VSTS and how you can leverage the new abilities. Ariel and I will talk about Software Architecture in the modern era. We will give some good advices as well as show good patterns and practices. Another architecture lecture will be given in English. Josh and Bram will show how to scale up and out heavy computational applications using tools, technologies and good architecture. I will join Shlomo in a session about programming languages, We will present the new features and talk about the future directions. Among many things we will talk about C# 4.0, C++ Ox and beyond. Sasha Goldshtein and Eran Stiller will bring their expertise in developing WF Services and show how to have a Workflow based business logic exported as a WCF service in the .NET 4.0 era. Gil Fink and Bnaya Eshet have a session about the next version of Entity Framework. They will present the new abilities of EF 4.0. Manu and Bernie will take you to a journey in the new exciting features of WCF 4.0. Discovery, Routing, Filtering are just few of the things that they will talk about. Erez Harai will show you the power of Sharepoint 2010. He will talk about the new programming feature and tools that make this platform so flexible and powerful. We also thought about the near future. We will have two lectures about new stuff that are going to be revealed in the PDC. We gave our MVPs a mission to build those sessions.

If you search Google for SDP, you will find that SDP is the Session Description Protocol the internet standard for describing multimedia communication sessions. We are going to have a SDP – Sela developer Practice, a communication sessions that will deliver all new and great technology from the PDC.

class Alon : public CPP, public Architecture : Internal, Sela

Windows Server 2008 R2 & Windows 7 – Under the Hood

Server Side (SSD101)

Sela Developer Practice