| Volume 10, Issue 23: November 12, 2008 | Note from the Editor | | | Greetings and Welcome to TechNet Flash, By now, you've no doubt heard about the newly unveiled Azure Services Platform operating system for the cloud. What does it mean for delivering enterprise-class software as a subscription service? See what benefits Azure holds for corporate developers, and find out more about Azure Services, including Live Services and SQL Services. As you begin reusing services and composing new applications, new requirements arise for the application server, because composite apps are typically more complex to develop, deploy, manage, and change. Enter next platform wave: .NET Framework 4.0 and Windows Server "Dublin". Microsoft is enhancing both the .NET Framework and Windows Server. A new set of enhanced Windows Server capabilities codenamed "Dublin" will offer greater scalability and easier manageability, while extending Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide a standard host for applications that use workflow or communications. Microsoft has also started providing glimpses of its next client operating system. You can get a first look at Windows 7 in notes from the pre-beta announcement at the recent Professional Developers Conference. Then dive deeper as Mark Russinovich goes Inside Windows 7. Russinovich, of Sysinternals fame, talks about kernel changes in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, including the removal of the scheduler's dispatcher lock, support for up to 256 CPUs, boot from VHD, MinWin, core parking for power savings, and more. Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 has many features that are designed specifically to work with client computers running Windows 7, plus updates to Internet Information Services 7 (IIS 7). See the Reviews Guide for the Windows Server 2008 R2 beta and learn about the new Web server with features to help applications run faster while using fewer system resources. Also read the InformationWeek article Windows Server 2008 R2 Perks Up Virtualization. New from Sysinternals:ZoomIt 2.11 ZoomIt now includes the ability to change the color of the break timer and modifies the way it captures the screen so that it includes tooltip windows. Process Monitor 2.0 This major update to Process Monitor adds real-time TCP and UDP monitoring to its existing process, thread, DLL, file system and registry monitoring. Autoruns 9.35 This Autoruns update adds additional autostart locations, including lsastart, s0initialization, savedumpstart, and servicecontrollerstart, and fixes several bugs. Mitch Irsfeld
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