Windows Server 2008 Israeli Launch Event & Presentations by Daniel Petri, MVP
Last week Microsoft Israel held a major Windows Server 2008 launch event, with more than 350 attendees and many display booths. The event took place in Akko, and was sponsored by Mediatech-Hi-Tech. The main event was presented by myself. I spoke for over 4 hours about the exciting new features that are arriving with Windows Server 2008.
Some of the hot topics that I spoke about include:
New Management options and tools:
- Management Today
- Server Manager
- Roles and Features
- Servermanagercmd.exe
- Event Viewer
- Performance and Reliability Monitoring
- Windows Backup
- PowerShell
- WinRM and WinRS
- Remote Server Administration Tools
Active Directory improvements and features:
- Active Directory Roles
- DCPromo Improvements
- Read Only Domain Controllers
- Restartable Directory Services
- Directory Services Auditing
- Fine-Grained Password Settings
- Group Policy Enhancements
- Active Directory Snapshots
Terminal Server and Virtualization features:
- Terminal Server Enhancements
- Terminal Server Experience
- Terminal Server RemoteApp
- Terminal Services Web Access
- Terminal Services Gateway
- Hyper-V overview
And finally –
- Security improvements:
- Server Core Overview
- Server Core Supported Roles and Features
- Server Core Management Options
- Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
- Server and Domain Isolation
- Network Access Protection
- Group Policy Enhancements
You can download the PowerPoint decks for these presentations from the following link:
http://www.petri.co.il/windows-server-2008-launch-event-israel-presentations-by-daniel-petri.htm