Windows Server 2008 Open House Presentation and Demos
Alon Fliess and I have presented at three Open House sessions at Microsoft on the subject of the upcoming Windows Server 2008. My last session was February 21, several days after the RTM but still a few days before the Heroes Happen {Here} launch event.
Several participants asked for the slides and demos (in past sessions as well), so I decided to upload everything to my SkyDrive for everyone's convenience. The subjects covered in the latest presentation follow:
- Introduction to Windows Server 2008 - Reliability, Manageability, Optimizations
- Application Restart and Recovery - Utilizing the Restart Manager
- Kernel Transaction Manager - Transactiona file system and registry operations
- Synchronization Mechanisms - Overview of condition variables, slim reader-writer lock and one-time initialization; Wait Chain Traversal
- Threading - Overview of new thread pool, CPU cycle counting, Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS), Thread Ordering Group
- I/O - thread I/O priority, file bandwidth reservation, cancelable I/O, system optimizations (ReadyBoost, ReadyDrive, SuperFetch, ReadyBoot)
- Networking - Overview of the Next Generation TCP/IP Stack, P2P
- Task Scheduler 2.0 - New possibilities and API
- MMC 3.0 - New managed API
- IIS 7.0 - New web server functionality for developers, ASP.NET integrated pipeline, managed request handlers, overview of IIS Manager
Please note that the demos have been tested with Windows Vista RTM (no SP1) and Windows Server 2008 RC0 (September 2007); however, there is no apparent reason for them to fail on Vista SP1 or the Server 2008 RTM.