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Kulen Dayz - first Microsoft conference in Osijek 2008-06-14 04:49:04 Microsoft Community Osijek together with Microsoft Croatia® with support from INETA are organizing the first regional community conference
KulenDayz 2008. Conference is bringing together leading IT Experts from the region with local IT Community and giving them a chance to spend a weekend filled with 18 attractive sessions presented by [...] Read more:Microsoft
New Windows Server 2008 power management whitepaper released 2008-06-10 18:14:39 Windows Server 2008 team announced a new whitepaper
about power
savings in Windows Server 2008. In this whitepaper, you can see how Windows Server 2008 provides customers with a number of new power-saving features including:
Support for Processor Performance States (P-states)
Server Virtualization with Hyper-V
Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) processor power manageme Read more:Windows
Adding virtual network to Hyper-V 2008-06-10 16:51:18 Finnaly, I have found a solution for my problem, and everything works now.
First, you have to create new network
adapter (I’m using external). Then, you have to add Legacy network adapter to your virtual
machine (machine must be turned off). Why?
This is because the Beta release of Hyper-V does not contain Integration Components that support [...]
My experience with Hyper-V 2008-06-06 17:15:42 Yesterday I installed Windows Server 2008 on the server at my college, as part of my final work. My task was to install Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and few virtual operating systems, and to enable communication between those systems so my colleague can install IPSec between OSs, as part of her final work. I downloaded [...] Read more:experience
Why should you use OS virtualization? 2008-06-02 16:56:30 Today, most servers use about 8% of their resources (average). That’s too low. For example, you can have DHCP server on one physical machine and DNS server on another machine. That’ll work fine, but it would be better to have only one physical machine instead of two, because each machine needs it’s physical place, electric [...]
Virtualization today 2008-05-29 09:08:32 Few years ago, everybody talked about web 2.0 and it’s benefits. Today, the main buzzword is virtualization. Let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about virtualization:
In computing, virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. Virtualization hides the physical characteristics of computing resources from their users, be they applications, or [...]
Why should anyone use Server Core option? 2008-05-20 17:48:59 In previous post, I explained you what Server Core option
is. As you can see on screen shot, there are no windows, and maybe you are wondering and asking yourself: Why should I use Server Core, why should I go back in time to old DOS systems? There are few got things about Windows [...]
Windows Server 2008 Core option 2008-05-19 07:07:25 One new and great option
in Windows
Server 2008 is Server Core. Server Core is “windows without windows“. When you start operating system you get only this:
As you can see, no Start button, no Internet Explorer, no Windows Media Player, no… Only Command prompt. You may ask: Why should I use Core installation option instead [...] Read more:Windows Server
Windows Server 2008 roles 2008-05-18 12:58:11 As I promised in last post, in this post I’m going to give you the list of all Windows
Server 2008 roles
. As you can see in table, when you buy Windows Server
2008 Enterprise or Datacenter edition, you get all roles, when you buy Standard edition you have some limitations with few roles and [...]
Windows Server 2008 editions 2008-05-16 15:53:48 If you want to purchase Windows
Server 2008, you can choose between 5 editions. In next table I’ll give you a list of new and updated features in Windows Server
2008.
New/Updated Features
Enterprise
Datacenter
Standard
Web
Itanium
Internet Information Services 7.0
+
+
+
+
+
Hyper-V
+
+
+
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Network Access Protection
+
+
+
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AD Rights Management Services (RMS)
Report from KulenDayz 2008-06-23 18:56:24 Last night I came back from Kulen Dayz, conference organized by Microsoft community from Osijek. I was organizer too, my job was to setup gaming zone and to take care of all gaming equipment. It was easy job, everything was OK except two flying bugs (little toys that look like bugs, you control their flight [...]
MCT - Train the trainer 2008-06-19 05:00:26 On Monday and Tuesday I participated in “Microsoft Certified Train
er - Train the trainer” training, in Microsoft Croatia office in Zagreb. It is training that helps people to improve their communication skills when they have lectures and trainings about Microsoft’s technologies. That training is obligatory for everyone who wants to become Microsoft Certified trainer. It [...]
Microsoft starts selling Hyper-V six weeks earlier 2008-06-27 15:36:23 On Thursday, Microsoft
said it has started selling
Hyper-V six weeks ahead of schedule . That’s a big pressure for WMware, today’s market leader in server virtualization techologies. Hyper-V will cost only 28$, and comparable VMware product costs $7,000 to $14,000, depending on how many processors the server has. My personal opinion is that [...]
Installing role in Windows Server 2008 2008-06-26 08:19:24 In this post I’m going to explain you how to install Domain Name System (DNS) role in Windows
Server 2008. You can use this tutorial to install all other roles, procedure is almost the same, just for every other role you have different options to choose. So, here we are, in Server Manager window, and [...] Read more:Windows Server
Playing with Windows Server 2008 2008-06-24 16:29:49 Today I spent few hours in computer lab at my college playing with Windows
Server 2008. I wanted to enable access to internet in guest operating systems. Since I don’t have Integration Components installed yet, I had to install Legacy network adapter, so I have “normal” network adapter and emulated one.
First choice was to enable [...] Read more:Windows Server
Working… 2008-07-15 10:04:24 Hello, as you can see, I don’t write a post very often in last two weeks. It’s because I started working in Euroclub, as a teacher. I’m going to work here till 24th of August, so in that time I won’t write a posts on this blog .
Bookmark [...]
Does server virtualization reduce costs? 2008-09-05 17:12:09 After summer and working for Euroclub, I have few weeks to enjoy in holidays. I have to admit, during whole summer I didn’t read any article about Windows Server, so I have a “huge” amount of good articles and news to share with you.
For the start, I have found a great series of articles on [...] Read more:reduce
, server
Security Days 2008 2008-09-27 05:47:03 6th Security Days will be held in Hotel Antunovic, Zagreb, from September 29th - September 30th 2008. This conference covers many topics, especially enterprise security, and keyword on this year’s conference will be virtualization (slogan means: Time for virtualization is now). I’m glad I’m gonna participate in this conference (thanks to Microsoft Croatia), and I’m [...]
Type 2 virtualization 2008-10-18 10:12:23 In next few posts, I’m gonna try to explain all types of virtualization. So, let’s start with first and easiest type, Type 2. At the bottom of the model is, of course, hardware. Above it is host operating system, for example, Windows Vista. Above host OS is Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), whose role is to [...]
New Windows - Windows 7 2008-10-14 11:04:49 Mike Nash, corporate vice-president in Microsoft, annouched that new version of Windows
will have the name: Windows 7.
The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the years, we have taken different approaches to naming Windows. We’ve used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or “aspirational” monikers like Windows [...]
New blog about UX 2008-10-02 02:19:38 I know that UX (user experience) has nothing to do with this blog, but I have to share this blog with you. Vibor Cipan, Microsoft Student Partners Lead soon goes to work in Microsoft Research Center in Denmark, and he has blog about user experience, UXPassion. There you can find interesting news, tutorials, critics and [...]
TechEd Developers - I’ll be there 2008-11-07 14:31:44 Every year Microsoft Croatia sends one student partner to Microsoft TechEd Developers
conference. They do that to reward that student partner for being Microsoft student partner, and for helping Microsoft student partners program being better and more efficient. This year they decided to send ME to Barcelona. I was very suprised and happy when I [...]
Can’t wait to try Windows 7 2008-11-02 08:21:22 You already know that Microsoft gave pre-beta version of Windows
7 to attendes of PDC. I saw many screenshots, and many reviews of this new operating system, and I can’t wait to try it. I haven’t read any bad review, everyone says that Windows 7 is great, that it has great new things, great user [...]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 2008-11-01 04:35:38 In last few days I was so busy and I couldn’t find some time to write about new great Microsoft
’s product. It’s called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Basically, it is operating system that looks just like Windows Server Core, but instead having 9 roles like Core, it has only one - Hyper-V. So, this [...]
Microsoft Open Days at FESB 2008-10-29 13:46:54 Yesterday we had Microsoft
Open Days at my college. The goal of this “conference” was to introduce Microsoft and Microsoft’s products to the students. First we introduced Imagine cup, competition for students, organized by Microsoft and supported by UNESCO. After that, team The wall of balance, last year’s winners of the competition in Croatia, showed [...]
MSCommunity group in Split live again 2008-11-28 21:33:17 Finally, after 11 months without meeting, we have managed to start MSCommunity group in Split. With support of Microsoft Croatia, Croatian association of programmers (HUPRO), SoftDevNet group, MS SQL & Developers group and Microsoft Student Partners, on Thursday we had meeting at my college. We had 73 attendees, which is great number, and two lectures. [...]
Hybrid virtualization 2008-11-20 18:04:27 Let’s continue with our virtualization school for beginners. In my previous post, I have explained Type 2 virtualization. In this post, I’ll give you simple schema and description of Hybrid
virtualization. In this virtualizaton type, both host OS and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) run directly on the hardware, but with different levels of access to [...]
TechEd vs. Windays 2008-11-16 21:56:11 As I said in my previous post, I’ll try to compare Teched with Windays in several categories. I participated in both conferences and I’ll try to be objective.
About conferences:
Teched for developers was held in Barcelona, and next year it’s moving to Berlin. It is biggest Microsoft’s conference in Europe (around 5000 delegates), primary focused on [...]