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Free eBook – Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

April 16th, 2010 Simon Seagrave
Microsoft

Microsoft Press have released a free downloadable ten chapter e-book entitled, “Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2”.  It covers many of the new features of MS SQL Server 2008 R2 along with information around upgrading, consolidation and monitoring and business intelligence maintenance.

If you deal with Microsoft SQL Server this could be a useful book to download and have available on your PC/laptop for reference.  Here is a breakdown of the chapters:

PART I   Database Administration

Free Introducing MS SQL Server 2008 R2 bookCHAPTER 1   SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions and Enhancements 3
CHAPTER 2   Multi-Server Administration 21
CHAPTER 3   Data-Tier Applications 41
CHAPTER 4   High Availability and Virtualization Enhancements 63
CHAPTER 5   Consolidation and Monitoring 85

PART II   Business Intelligence Development

CHAPTER 6   Scalable Data Warehousing 109
CHAPTER 7   Master Data Services 125
CHAPTER 8   Complex Event Processing with StreamInsight 145
CHAPTER 9   Reporting Services Enhancements 165
CHAPTER 10   Self-Service Analysis with PowerPivot 189

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Maximum Memory Limits

February 3rd, 2010 Simon Seagrave

With Windows Server 2008 R2 being the first x64 only version of Microsoft’s popular server operating system the maximum memory configurations are much simpler to remember.  It will likely be a while yet before the x32 version of Windows Server 2008 is stopped being deployed fully in production environments meaning that you’ll have to keep tabs on how much memory each version and build type can take.

Although it being relatively straight forward to remember here’s a table outlining the maximum memory limits of the various editions and versions of Windows Server 2008.

 

Version Maximum Memory Limit (x64 Only)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter

2TB
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 2TB
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium 2TB
Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation 8GB
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 32GB
Windows Web Server 2008 R2 32GB

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Maximum Memory Limits

Version Max Memory Limit (x32) Max Memory Limit (x64)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter 64GB 2TB
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64GB 2TB
Windows Server 2008 Standard 4GB 32GB
Windows Small Business Server 2008 4GB 32GB
Windows Web Server 2008 4GB 32GB

 

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What ever happened to ‘winmsd’ in Windows Server 2008, Vista and Windows 7?

December 6th, 2009 Simon Seagrave
Microsoft

Something that caught me out recently was trying to bring up system information about my Windows Server 2008 machine.  I have in the past always typed ‘winmsd’ and a box would appear with a pretty decent amount of information on the system from which I ran the command from.

Though trying this old faithful of a command from my Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 (and I believe the same is true for Windows Vista) machines led to nothing happening and no useful system info window opening.  Now this is probably something that I have missed over the last year or so but ‘winmsd’ has now been replaced with a new command called ‘msinfo32’. (Amendment: @wilva has kindly informed me that ‘msinfo32’ has been around since NT4 days – thanks :) ) So if you run this command from either a 32 or 64 bit version of Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 you get the familiar ‘System Information’ screen and details you used to get by running ‘winmsd’.

Maybe I could have run the ‘msinfo32’ command all along (see amendment above) but I thought I’d throw it out there in case there are some fellow ‘winmsd’ die hards out there like myself.  :)

For more information (credit to @wilva) check out this Wikipedia entry on Microsoft Diagnostics.

 msinfo32 is the new winmsd

 

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Free 1000 VM License of Hyper9 Virtualization Mobile Manager (VMM) to VMworld Attendees

August 20th, 2009 Simon Seagrave
VMware

Thought this worth a mention…  Hyper9 are offering all VMworld (San Francisco) 2009 attendees a free copy of their Virtualization Mobile Manager (VMM) product to assist in managing your mobile environment whilst at the conference.image

This product, from a remote management perspective, is similar to VMware’s   vCenter Mobile Access (which can be downloaded for free here) but has the added advantage that it can manage different virtualization hypervisor types such as Hyper-V, ESX and XenServer.  Good for those mixed virtualization platform environments.

For more information on Hyper9’s VMM click here and for the free copy details click here. There is also a free 5 VM downloadable version for those not attending VMworld.

Hyper9VMM

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Free Microsoft E-Book – “Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions”

August 14th, 2009 Simon Seagrave
Microsoft

Here’s another free Microsoft E-Book download.  This time the book is on “Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions”.

This download will only available for a short while so download it, if interested, while you can.

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