Microsoft TechNet Spotlight

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Brad Nelson - Exploring Business Intelligence and SQL Server 2008

Learn how the new enhancements in SQL server 2008 provide a comprehensive and scalable Business Intelligence platform that enables you to integrate and manage your growing data volumes, comprehensive analysis and enterprise reporting, and deliver insights through Microsoft Office System.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=894

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Stephanie Doakes - The Application Platform: Where IT meets Business

Drive your business forward with the Microsoft Application Platform - an integrated set of platform technologies and development tools which enable your IT organization to deliver winning applications. Learn how integrated technologies and features across SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio and other Microsoft technologies can help you tailor applications to the specific needs of your business.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=888

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Stephanie Doakes - Optimizing your IT Infrastructure with Windows Server 2008

Find out how Windows Server 2008 can help transform your IT infrastructure from a cost center to a strategic business asset. This session will profile Microsoft's Core Infrastructure Optimization model to show how key features of Windows Server 2008 will help you deliver against the needs of end users, customers and partners to drive greater business value.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=887

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Stephanie Doakes - Enabling Dynamic IT - and optimizing your infrastructure, processes and people

The 2008 Launch wave is a significant milestone in Microsoft's Dynamic IT initiative. We are focused on helping customers reduce costs, increase IT innovation and partner strongly with the business - through optimized people, processes and technology. This session is focused on Microsoft's Infrastructure Optimization models as a way to plan for IT capability growth, and will also look at some key trends in IT that will have a transformative effect on how we run infrastructure and applications over the next 3-5 years.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=886

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - John Weston - Exploring Windows Server 2008 Web and Application Technologies

Take a look at all the changes coming in the new, redesigned Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 and Windows Web Server 2008. This session focuses on new troubleshooting features, a breakdown of architecture and security improvements and the new IIS 7 configuration system, remote management, extensibility, and business value.   

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - John Weston - Securing Your IT Infrastructure with Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 offers rich capabilities for securing your IT Infrastructure and proving tools to ease with compliance mandates. This session discusses the Windows security and compliance features such as Network Access Protection, Right Management Services, and Active Directory Federation Service subsystem. In addition we will discuss why auditing is important and how to configure an audit policy with Windows Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=884

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - John Weston - Virtualization and Your Infrastructure

The new Windows Server Virtualization technology, Hyper-V, and Presentation Virtualization technologies like Terminal Services RemoteApp are core features in Windows Server 2008. This session will provide you an overview of virtualization in Windows Server 2008, the scenarios, features, and benefits that make server virtualization an important scenario. Virtualization management is becoming a critical tool for improving overall manageability for the IT environment. Watch this session to learn how Hyper-V and our management technologies build a strong flexible platform and improve overall manageability.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=883

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - John Weston - What's New in Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008, in addition to incorporating new capabilities and enhancements to existing features, includes a number of improvements in the core OS that enhance the Operating System's capabilities in this area. Features aimed at increasing the ability of Windows Server 2008 to support highly critical workloads by improving operational reliability, reducing system failures, and easing management.  Improvements in other related elements in the platform that help Windows based systems and services help move an organization's IT Department forward are also discussed.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=882

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Chris Sakolosky, Jon Roskill - Executive Keynote

Join the launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. We will detail how this launch wave will help IT Professionals and Developers deliver next generation web and business applications, manage IT environments for scale and security, and take advantage of virtualization to increase operational agility. We'll feature real-world IT heroes delivering solutions on top of the Microsoft platform and show demos that showcase some of the newest technologies in the launching products.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=881

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Jeff Woolsey, Mike Sterling - Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios, and Networking

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Allen Stewart, Edwin Yuen - Deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Best Practices

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Alexander Lash, John Kelbley - Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Scripting and Programmatic Management for Fun and Profit (VBS and PowerShell)

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Edwin Yuen - Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: Overview

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Ben Pearce - Windows, PowerShell, and Windows Management Instrumentation: Unveiling Microsoft's Best Kept Secret

 Without doubt the most underused and underrated technology out there today is Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Since Windows 2000, Microsoft has included scriptable remote administration in all operating systems. For years people didn't understand WMI, but then Windows PowerShell was born, WMI became accessible, and then WMI became the best kept secret at Microsoft. This session is aimed at giving system administrators ideas, tips, and tricks on how they can use PowerShell to massively reduce their administrative overhead. From reviewing Hotfixes to managing Network Cards, from monitoring Virtual Machines to managing Failover Clustering, we delve into the power of WMI, and see how easy to use it really is. This session introducesthe basic architectural concepts of WMI, details how to utilize WMI from PowerShell, and finally introduces some killer scripts that can be used in the real world to make Windows administration way quicker.

Technet Spotlight On Demand Video - Mark Minasi - Windows Logins Revealed