Anith Gopal

Microsoft and Japan’s Osaka University have launched the Osaka University Green IT Project to look at the utilization of IT and help visualize the University’s energy consumption. The goal for the project is to raise awareness regarding electricity consumption at the University and help improve its energy management through the joint project. Electricity consumed by air conditioning, lighting, PCs and other equipment accounts for approximately 70% of Osaka University’s carbon emissions

Predicting resource requirements for a new business application, especially one that is customer-facing is a tricky task. It’s hard to know if you have the new Facebook or your hands.

I have a old Compaq V2000 laptop (almost 4.5 years old) (Intel Centrino Mobile and 512 MB ram) and installed Windows 7 on that. I was scared that it will not install since the system does not meet prerequisite criteria (1 GB ram), but Win 7 got installed perfectly! But showed that 5 drivers were not installed: > Wireless Network Adapter > Display Adapter > Modem > Mass Storage Controller > Multimedia Audio Controller Out of these Wireless Network Adapter and Display Adapter were installed by windows update automatically (yeah, I had to reboot the box couple of times and run windows update multiple times). I think Windows Update has the drivers provided by Intel (which is what the Chipset is) here.

The talented combo of DeepFat and JamesOne have been exploring the features of Win7 and WS2008 via the medium of art, some YouTube annotations and then some slightly random videos. You can start here and then click through to the stuff you’re interested in. The music is by SongSmith, which is a shame as I’d envisaged some kind of lounge-suited DeepFat/JamesOne combo jamming away into the early hours

This collection of videos is very clever – as you work your way through it, you’ll see that you eventually end up with some screencasts showing particular features of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. But what is riveting on the journey is the way that you navigate your way around the videos – using hand drawn animations and hotspots on each video to give you a route to learn more

Nuestro buen amigo Miguel Almeyda quiere compartir con ustedes una seria de 5 presentaciones muy buenas sobre la plataforma de desarrollo web de Microsoft, aquí el detalle: Entrenamiento Online Plataforma Web de Microsoft Módulo 2: Tecnologías de Microsoft en los Servidores Detalle: Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS Expositor: Javier Loria Presentación: http://cid-df82d7f75fe692a0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/mswebpt/MSwebpt02_Loria.pdf Grabación: https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/view?cn=&id=NK5M9M-1&pw=Webptfrm02 Módulo 3: Tecnologías de Microsoft para el Browser Detalle: Visual Studio, ASP.NET y Silverlight Expositor: Carlos Lone Presentación: http://cid-df82d7f75fe692a0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/mswebpt/MSwebpt03_Lone.pdf Grabación: https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/view?cn=&id=NK5M9M-2&pw=Webptfrm03 Módulo 4: Tecnologías de Microsoft para los Diseñadores Detalle: Expression Studio Expositor: Miguel Almeyda (Perú) Presentación: http://cid-df82d7f75fe692a0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/mswebpt/MSwebpt04_Almeyda.pdf Grabación: https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/view?cn=&id=NK5M9M-3&pw=Webptfrm04 Módulo 5: Tecnologías de Microsoft en la Nube Detalle: Azure, LiveMesh, Live Expositor: Juan Mestas (Perú) Presentación: http://cid-df82d7f75fe692a0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/mswebpt/MSwebpt05_Mestas.pdf Grabación: https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/view?cn=&id=NK5M9M-4&pw=Webptfrm05 Saludos Fernando García Loera MVP Lead | Community Consultant | Latin American Region Que es un MVP? Tip para ser MVP    

Hi All, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system and provides significant improvements to the base operating system over Windows Server 2003. Notable improvements include those in networking, advanced security features, remote applications access, centralized server role management, performance and reliability monitoring tools, failover clustering, deployment, and the file system.

Wow . The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization. The drivers, once added to the Linux kernel, will provide the hooks for any distribution of Linux to run on Windows Server 2008 and its Hyper-V hypervisor technology.

I’ve just finished reading the whitepaper about networking enhancements that are included within Windows 7, which are especially powerful when combined with Windows Server 2008 R2. Although I’m not the most technical person in the team, it made sense to me, and a couple of key features jumped out at me as being particularly useful in education: DirectAccess for academic staff to replace VPN connections The scenario of VPN which the whitepaper describes matches my own use of VPN. When I’m working from home, I avoid using a VPN connection when I can, because all of my internet traffic is re-routed through it, and slows down downloads and other web access (VOIP is sometimes lower quality too)

MSDN has long had a document on Setting up Team Foundation Server to Require HTTPS and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) . It is geared specifically to Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 though, as the OS and IIS platforms.

With Windows Server 2008 (and R2) Failover Clustering you can make almost anything highly-available.

You can now download the latest Service Pack (SP2) for Vista and Windows Server. The Service Pack, which is a consolidation of a number of small fixes into one larger downloadable, was uploaded to the Download Center on Tuesday. As before, there is only one service pack which supports both OS’s to make it easier for Administrators to deploy the image around the business.