The Performance Team Countdown
Hi All! sorry I’ve been away and haven’t had the opportunity to share with you some more and exciting information about the new features in Windows Server 2008, but my attention has been focused on other items. In order to re-mediate this I have some homework for you all or how should we say some assigned reading material that will help you prep on your road to success with Windows Server 2008.
The Windows Performance team in their blog over at TechNet has been posting the following articles daily since the beginning of February regarding some of the real back-end work that goes on in Windows Server 2008 when talking about topics such as printing, terminal services and some other important topics, I would like all of you to review them at your own pace and I specially recommend the ones highlighted in bold bellow as I think they are quite valuable and worthwhile.
This article series by the performance team will last a couple more days till the official release of Windows Server 2008, so I will add to the list the pending articles they will publish in the upcoming days for your personal reference.
WS2008: Upgrade Paths, Resource Limits & Registry Values
WS2008: Startup Processes and Delayed Automatic Start
WS2008: Windows Service Hardening
WS2008: Service Shutdown and Crash Handling
WS2008: Windows Error Reporting
WS2008: Dynamic Link Library Loader and Address Space Load Randomization
WS2008: Memory Management, Dynamic Kernel Addressing, Memory Priorities and I/O Handling
WS2008: The Print Services Role
WS2008: Understanding XML Paper Specification (XPS)
WS2008: Client-side Rendering
WS2008: The WSD Port Monitor
WS2008: Printer-Driver Packages
WS2008: Print Management Enhancements
WS2008: Terminal Services Architecture
WS2008: Terminal Server Management and Administration
WS2008: Network Level Authentication and Encryption
WS2008: Terminal Services Printing
WS2008: Overview of the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) Client
WS2008: Remote Desktop Connection Architecture
WS2008: RDC Enhancements and Administrative Sessions
WS2008: Frontside Authentication and SSO
WS2008: Terminal Services RemoteApps
WS2008: Terminal Server Web Access Architecture
WS2008: Terminal Server Session Broker Overview
WS2008: Session Broker Load Balancing
WS2008: Terminal Services Gateway Overview
I will come back tomorrow to you all with a post on terminal Services on 2008 and a good point to start and then continue on reading some of the articles mentioned on this extensive list.
TIP: I normally bookmark this articles using a social bookmark aggregator such as del.icio.us or ma.gnolia.com, websites that allow you to store your bookmarks online and access them regardless of your location or the system you are using to browse the web. Be sure to check out services like this to save your personal bookmarks and save some valuable study time.