So I am stuck in hospital for the new few days (I’m fine) but luckily I have my laptop with so I am going to watch more of the BUILD sessions videos to see what titbits I can find out about Windows 8. If you have not already read my other post about what it new in Windows 8 then…

The Windows Developer Preview version of Windows Server 8 has been on MSDN now for a while therefore I setup a Domain Controller and found some very interesting new Group Policy features lurking… Group Policy Infrastructure Status If you click on the domain name in GPMC you will notice there is a new tab called “Infra Status”. As the page…

Microsoft has made available the final version Microsoft Security Compliance Manager v2 available for download. In case you don’t already know SCM is a great security analysis tool for your Microsoft products that works great with Group Policy but also with SCCM Desired Configuration Management (DCM) and Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). If you want to learn more about SCM…

Over the past few days in my spare time I have been watching some of the BUILD session video’s about Windows 8. Below are just some of the notes around Windows 8 that I have been able to find out what is new in Windows 8. Some of these features are consumer and/or server orientated but all of these features…

Here is a great demo heavy session from BUILD doing an introducing some of the new features of Windows Server 8.

As I mentioned in my previous post Windows 8 is having it big reveal at the BUILD conference right now. However some of the session are not developer related  and there has been some really cool information revealed about Windows Server 8 and Hyper-V (I knew I should have gone). For your convenience I have listed all the Windows Server/Hyper-V…

Microsoft showed in great details for two hours Windows 8 during the start of the BUILD conference today. If you would like to watch the whole 2 hour video you can check it out at right now at http://www.buildwindows.com/ .  Check out the keynote below. From what I have seen from the video, I can truly say that Windows 8…

If you are attending TechEd Australia 2011 then please come and see my two “Birds of Feather” sessions then I will be doing on Thursday and Friday. These are shortened version of my TechEd NZ session, however I will in the hanging around the room after the session so I will be happy to take any other questions that you…